Ignorance, it's pretty blissful, eh?

Ignorance is bliss, but there are sometimes, when those that have to deal with the sick, sad excuses for "normal" people they see every day, just want to slap some of them out.

I'm so sick of people and their STUPID arguments, sure, there are poor and hungry in our own country, sure our own country has problems, but compared to others, we are a lot better off, there are ways to help the people over here who can't or don't want to work, there is welfare, The government will support you. We have one of the best welfare system's in the world, in Australia.

In other countries, the government takes advantage of its citizen to such an extent that it turns a blind eye to things like forced labor, poverty and famine.

And, even worse still, there are those countries, where the government is the one doing the harm. Places like Burma and Sudan, among many others, and so many westerners, who can, believe it or not, at least try to do something, don't. Why? Because we're lazy, because we want someone else to, because it's too hard, because it's too sad. So what, it's sad, it's depressing, it makes you sick to your stomach, and kids, it's suppose to. Instead of ignoring this, you are suppose to do something! Why do you think you have these feelings? They don't exist for the hell of it.

What sparked this, you may wonder. As you would be right to, many things started me on my walk down the garden path, to this rant I'm at now. But the straw that broke the camel's back was one of my friends using the age old argument that we need to deal with our own country's problems before we deal with those of other countries. For this, I will refer to the following poem, I don't really need to say much more.

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Who will help, if there is no-one left to help? Freedom is essential. Please never forget that. If we don't fight for other peoples freedom, we can have little hope of retaining our own. Haman's are good at turning away when the movie gets gory, too good, even.