Saturday, May 30, 2009

Children: The First Casualties of War

And you thought I was joking?

Imagine this screaming and dying child as your only son? What would you do if that happenned? Would you run after and kill the soldiers who impaled your dying son, or would you beg them to help you bring him to a hospital? In this unnerving moment, would you still have the luxury of choosing a side in the war or would you rather start throwing down your weapons to help save your son's life?

The answer is obvious. What can you do?

The pain in this man's eyes is worse than the pain killing his son. The father is confused, angry, powerless. He knows that his son is dying and that he can't do anything about it. Regardless, he panicks and then begs for help. Someone nearby should help them and yet while the seconds turn into hours, no one listens!
A wise man once said that the first casualty of war is truth, and yet he is wrong for the first casualties of war are children.

The great nations of our world today, have systematically slaughtered, abused and even enlisted children in their countless wars for gold, glory, and gods. They have put their selfish interests and above human life, and in the process have fueled hatred in the hearts and minds of their enemies. Then they predictably label their enemies as terrorists, catch them and then imprison them without trial. The media claims that the casualties of bombings in the wars destroying the middle east alone, consist mostly of women and children. This is common sense because the men in their families leave their homes to fight the jet planes that bomb their country. Gone are the days of the Liberation where soldiers gave clothes, chocolates and cans of SPAM to children. Today, they make chocolate and SPAM out of children!
Yet, there are a chosen few who still stand up for the rights of children and lay down weapons to protect them. They suffer greatly and even die in the process, while their own families mock them in their graves for the crimes committed by their leaders. Bless them Oh God for their compassion! The Earth would be a lifeless place without them.

We supposedly live in a modern world composed of civilized people and yet we allow our leaders to force us to wage war against the weak for the sake of petty things like beautiful faces, pride, and oil.
Shouldn't civilized people see the stupidity of war? There are more wars raging in the earth now than the total number of wars that were waged by our primitive forefathers in history.
You know what?

To hell with the oil!

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My wife and I decided to bring our four year old child, Rochelle Marie, to Baguio last Saturday, and as expected, she enjoyed the city, the climate, the horses, and most especially the people. We hope to teach her much about Filipino culture, especially the Ifugao and Igorot cultures, before their customs and traditions fade away into history and are replaced by television, video games, and rock and roll. These senior citizens charged us Php 130 pesos (10 pesos each) for the photo because they really needed money, as they have no other sources of income. Their ancestral lands were either sold or taken away from them many years ago and I doubt if our government is doing anything to help them out today. They really need our help. So, go to Baguio whenever you can and visit them. - Baguio City, May 2, 2009

Snippets: Sports and Children

Any sport teaches kids the values of discipline, perseverance, courage, humility, obedience, patience, and most of all, cooperation and love, values that take a longer time to develop within the four walls of a university classroom.

This is why schools and universities all over the world have already recognized Olympic Sports as more effective ways to develop a child's Bodily-Kinesthetic, Spatial, Interpersonal and Intrapersonal intelligences. (There are seven multiple intelligences known to man.)

Perhaps, this is the reason why many child athletes tend to be great leaders when they grow up. Primary Examples: 1.U.S. President Obama plays basketball; 2. Russian President Vladimir Putin plays Judo. He holds an advanced blackbelt degree in this martial art and sport; 3. England's Margaret Thatcher played hockey and swimming earlier in her life; 4. Governor Arnold Swarzenneger is a competitive bodybuilder; 5. And Saint John Paul II, the late Pope and Holy Father of the Holy Catholic Church, played skiing, swimming, cayaking, boxing and mountaineering.

So, introduce your kids to sports. It is worth it.
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