i’ve been following this story of the air marshall and the passenger he shot.  i’m completely saddened by the events.  we are living in a culture of fear fueled by thoughts of brown ghosts hiding in corners and ethnic boogeymen under our beds. 

i understand he may have been doing his job.  my question is why do we have a job whose purpose is to suspect that everyone and anyone could be a potential threat to society.  seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

call me naive.  i think we should expect to receive what we give out.  if we stand on our pulpits ranting about the insanity in the world, we sure will spend a lot of energy looking for it in the most obscure places, and no doubt find it or even create it.  an air marshall kills a bipolar man because he said the word bomb. 

seems to me our time would be better spent finding all the good and love and flaming those fires instead.

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