DEFT STICK HANDLING REQUIRED

 Bashing local, dirty polluters and their co-conspirators should be easy compared to this:

If one adheres to the mantra of An Eye For An Eye Then Eventually The Whole World Will Be Blind

If indiscriminate murder and mayhem by one group unleashed upon another is heinous then how is indiscriminate murder and mayhem unleashed back upon the first group less heinous?

Today's local paper has used words such as "occupation", "open air prisons" etc. in referencing life for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank (?). Our local paper has also stated that Israel are in complete control of food, water, electricity that is transported to the Palestinian people. I often disagree with the Editorial section of the Waterloo Region Record but a recent Record Editorial suggested that based upon the living conditions for the Palestinians,  the Record while not condoning Hamas's recent murderous behaviour, certainly can understand where it's coming from.

It never ceases to amaze me how human beings in a superior position of power, authority, money and influence are so willing to lie, cheat and steal from their fellow citizens and residents. I am of course referring to corporate polluters and their fellow travellors here in Elmira, Ontario. With support from local politicians and others they externalize their toxic waste disposal costs upon the unsuspecting environment and public. That is a polite way of saying that in order not to spend money cleaning up their profit producing production wastes, they dump them into the ground and into nearby creeks and rivers. These toxic wastes are lethal and contribute to the epidemic of cancers and more inflicting human beings.

Then in a gross fit of hypocrisy these polluters and their friends whine and cry about harsh words being thrown at them as if these words were bombs or bullets as per the horrific carnage unfolding in the Middle East. Eventually, when all other options are exhausted, human beings often resort to violence.  I have a suspicion that the perpetrators may actually like to see their weaker opponents go that route as it usually discredits them. At least of course until the violence is literally upon their own doorstep and visits their own families. Then the whining and crying begins in earnest.