Searching for safety from the evilness

When I was a boy, I once walked near a wasp nest in a clothes line pole at which time one pesky inhabitant took umbrage and stung me on the jaw. I swatted him away but he evidently thought once was not enough and returned to sting again slightly below the initial attack...another swat and a third attack. Now, there were two very angry parties involved in a unpleasant dialogue, and I doubt that that wasp understood that crazy entity chasing it around the yard until he landed and met his doom. Somehow the end game took some of the sting out of the stings, but my friends thought I had taken up chewing for well over a week, and every time I ate, I ended up biting the inside of my cheek. Dumb kid!

Wiser heads bought spray bug killer, plugged one end of the pipe, sprayed a considerable amount of the treatment in the other end and then plugged that end. Voila!! The wasp problem was no more. They realized as I hadn’t that the nest was the source of my pain, and that the wasp was only a harbinger of a much greater problem if it caused Mother pain.

My beloved country is in pain. “Wasps” have stung us repeatedly and while it might give us a temporary sense of satisfaction to destroy those evil intentioned “wasps”, until their nest is isolated and destroyed, we’ll continue to have those wicked inhuman acts occur in our country.

It will take more than shouts and threats, or even bombs and bullets to bring to an end the beastial activities of those who hate and kill innocents to show love for their god. It will take a diplomacy, expert enough to move to action those of the Middle East suffering from the idiocy of Islamic Jihad. Our sons and daughters should not have to shoulder the responsibility for providing safety for those unwilling to provide for themselves.

The beginning,however, is the realization that killing “wasps” here will only result in the unending experience of the loss of more and more of our civil rights as citizens as collateral damage from the search for safety from this evilness.

-Rex Clothier