WARS and RUMORS of WARS!!!

War is defined as  an armed conflict; as between nations or between parties.   If you read todays headlines or tune in to todays news you  see or hear about the conflict taking place or about to take place between nations.   You will also notice the conflicts taking place in our communities.  Just as rivals in Iraq or Afghanistan are in the streets armed with assault rifles and pistols, young black males are in the streets of our communities armed with some of these same weapons.  They are robbing, stealing and killing.   For what?   For drugs, high price hubcaps(rims), cars, money, and for so called territory that they don't even own.  They are so blood thirsty they can't even see that their most powerful weapons are being used against them.  THEIR MINDS!!!

The craziest part of this whole situation is that they are at the lowest level of warfare.  Just recently the government of this country announced the creation of Cybercom, the arm of the military that will do battle in cyberspace or online as we call it.  Companies and Countries have already been doing battle here for some time.  Have we?  Can We?  How many of us own computers?  Of the ones that own computers, how many of us know how to truly use them?  Can we network?   Can we communicate.   We know how to shoot.   We know how to run.   We know how to jump and look menacing.

While we are fighting for petty territory in government created projects,  Nations are fighting for territory above the earth to put their weather satellites, missile defense systems, cell phone satellites, future colonies as well as other things.  While we fight for drug spots, others fight for the future.  If we continue on this path we are DOOMED!!!  

Hopefully we will come to our senses and change.  The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire said it best when he said "the most potent weapon of the oppressor, is the mind of the oppressed."