So, to be honest with everyone, I’ve been a little frustrated by Anonymous’ comments. Fortunately I had a great IM conversation with somebody of similar political views. It taught me that there really is the possiblity of dialogue between two people of differing views.
The text below is our conversation on IM (edited a little for clarity). It’s not over, but sort of gives some idea of where he was coming from and me having the opportunity to probe a little bit to gain some understanding.
I’ll …

To anonymous and others who have enlightening things to tell me about,
I would love to IM or email with you about the things that you obviously think I am un-informed about. My understanding of war does not come from a philosphizing political point of view.
Most of my thoughts on issues like this come strictly from what I see Christ said. My hope is that others like yourself would come to see that maybe war isn’t such a hot idea and then YOU can be the genius …

So, anonymous, I appreciate your comments and I’ll try not to say things like that again.
It seems the issue of disbanding police maybe is a little to extreme for people to consider at the moment so we’ll just leave that alone for now. We’ll change the focus just a little bit and consider the war in Iraq.
The number of civilian casualties in a war is disturbing to me. I mean back in the day wars were fought with folks lining up in rows in a field …

Okay, time for a serious blog. If anyone has been paying attention to the news then they’ve probably heard about Jean Charles de Menezes and I don’t know about you but it’s a little freak to me.
The basic jist is that Friday London police chased a guy in the subway, he tripped and fell and they shot him five times, dead. Already I was a concerned because it sounded like marshall law, it seemed like they could have apprehended him without shooting him, I mean he tripped …

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