by Jon Dainty Sr.

Created on: December 27, 2008   Last Updated: April 02, 2009

It is remarkable that the Earth continues to let us live. Is it not amazing that humanity, despite great intellect and potential, steadily and assiduously seeks out the lowest, the meanest, and the least constructive outcomes for itself? In response, we must act quickly to protect the very fabric of our existence.

Mumbai, India, has suffered only the most recent in a series of human-on-human atrocities. Some little pimply-faced group of religious nuts cum revolutionaries listened to "the voices" and launched its little holocaust for some "holy cause" or other, leaving nearly 200 dead and hundreds more wounded. And for what?

These low types of people are not found only in the south of Asia or the Middle East. They are present in disturbingly high numbers in cities around the world. Like rats, cockroaches, and other vermin, they gather where large numbers of otherwise innocent, decent people live and work. They use the benefits of civilization to sow fear and loathing among populations largely ignorant of their true goals, like the early Ku Klux Klan of the American Old South.

Someone asks whether evil is "real," and these honorless, unwelcome wretches provide the answer with regularity: yes. They are evil. Their evil oozes from the dark singularity of their nefarious and violent goals for those parts of the world they can infect. They sow death and violence among people who might otherwise realize their dreams of peace and prosperity. Why are these people allowed to perpetrate such horrors?

My answer highlights ignorance and apathy: terrorists feed off the ignorance of those who loath knowledge strange to them, those whose apathy is comfortable from long familiarity. It is tempting (and perhaps accurate) to posit that, having no lives of their own, these international criminals find joy and fulfillment in the misery, fear, and suffering of others.

I cannot say that these miscreants have no lives, though. What is obvious is that they have no respect for the lives, dreams, or future of others. What they feel for themselves I find unfathomable. Perhaps they are simply satisfied with the evil they create; whatever their true motivation, they are a rabid scourge to the rest of humanity and should enjoy no welcome whatsoever in any civilized place.

This is where we come to the embarrassment. Even in the face of the frequent terrorist activities seen around the globe, other groups are content to follow their lead, only more quietly. The Mafia have done it for generations,

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