GROWING VIOLENCE IN 2011

Over the last few weeks we have seen the world become increasingly violent. Unarmed people have been killed in Libya, Iran, and Mexico. Two unsuspecting USAF Airmen were killed and two were wounded in Germany by a radical Muslim. In Lubbock, TX, a radical Saudi Arabian Muslim student was caught planning to attempt bombings here in the U.S. … he’d even targeted the home of former President G. W. Bush.

The Middle East is in greater turmoil that anyone could have ever imagined. As the unrest increases, there is no telling just how much more blood will be shed. In my blog from February 20th I said “if the violence worsens and lives are lost in the Middle East, the media, the President, and pundits will have more trouble and blood on their hands than they could ever have imagined”. As we know now, the violence has gotten much worse. We’ve been lucky so far that no America citizens have been killed … yet.

We haven’t been as lucky in Mexico. Too many Americas have been killed in Mexico due to the rampant violence. But even more worrisome than that has been the unacceptable number of Americans that have been killed by the Mexican gangs on our side of the border (in law enforcement and civilians). Recently, a young 21 year old woman that took on the role of Chief of Police in her town has fled Mexico in fear of her life. Yet our federal government still will not secure the border.

Another disturbing development has been the violence we’ve seen unveiled by government union employees at rally after rally held across the nation … and not just in Wisconsin. By and large, the people attending these rallies do not represent the whole of the unions, they are from the most radical arm of them. For all of the negative rumors that were spread by liberals in the media, and in the Democrat party about the TEA parties being hate-filled, it has been union thugs that have actually been caught on tape behaving hatefully. We don’t hear anything about that from liberal reporters, politicians, or from President Obama.

I don’t know if the world is actually anymore violent today that at any other time in history, but it sure seems that way to me. Maybe it is because so much has happened in just the first two months of this year that I’m sensing it. Not only has there been actual violence, but there is great potential that this year may get even more violent. I believe that high oil prices will cause tensions between nations to rise. I think oil producing nations outside of the Middle East will soon use the Middle East’s unrest to even further blackmail the world with even higher oil prices … in a sense that is already happening. I’m convinced that those nations will attempt to increase their wealth and global influence with this new oil money. If that happens, there is no telling how much more violent the world will get.

Libya, Iran, Mexico, Cuba, China, Afghanistan, etc., have shown us a fraction of man’s inhumanity to man. They’ve also shown us just how easily a small group of radicals can take over a nation or a movement and kill without remorse in the name of revolution, or social justice, or simply in the name of change. The only way for evil to win as Ronald Reagan said “is for good men to do nothing”. Change is coming, and what that change will bring none of us knows for sure, but if it is the wrong change (and I believe that it is) will we simply set back and do nothing?

There you have it.
Pass it along if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie