Last night I went and saw a movie.
The movie was filled with death, mutilation, profanity, insane violence, but with a simple moral question buried underneath all of that lovely insanity.
Why do so many people stand by and watch things happen when if they would act, bad things might not happen as often?

We as a people have decided that things must be going wonderful and that crime is alright.
I mean, we watch it every day don’t we?
We see people hurting others, stealing from each other and walking when the light says not to!
I guess it all comes down to we are just a nation of greedy people?
The question is though, who is more greedy?
The people doing the crime, or the people watching it happen without acting?
Yes, most would say the criminal is because they are taking something away from another.
What about the witness though?
Did they say anything?
Call the police?
Even take down the information as to describe the scene to the police?
Even call the police after the fact?
No, more and more everyone is becoming more and more afraid of repercussions of acting out to help others.
I, at least when it is bad, still act.
I know others who still do too, but fewer and fewer.
Action does not need to mean jumping in front of someone holding a gun sticking out your chest like a Super Hero because we all know that bullets, knifes and fists hurt.
Is it so hard to stop and make a phone call though?
Or take your phone out and take a picture of the situation as you drive past to give the info to the police?
If we as a nation would start standing up a little more people might start behaving a little better.
If people had a reason to have fear of there actions might they stop and just for a second reconsider what they are doing?
I know for a fact if someone pulls out a video camera I am going to behave … possibly tell a joke and do a little dance but that’s a different issue all together …

All of this needs to be addressed but it comes back to another couple of issues too though doesn’t it?
You know, the bad parenting issues I love thinking about.
No, not the single parent who works 3 jobs and can’t be at home with there kids because they are trying to do what is right.
No, the people who just have children for all of the wrong reasons, but still on purpose.
That and the government.
All the way from the National White Wigs, then down to the paid to look the other way cops on the corner.
We as a people all want change, as proof we voted change in not so long ago, but we are all to worried about repercussion to do anything about it.
We all want the government to fix everything, but how can they be everywhere at once?
I mean you can’t tell me that parents don’t know what there kids are doing.
OK, again I understand that the single parent working the 3 jobs might be a little busy to notice, but the parent who sees there kid who doesn’t have a job but still has a sweet car and gang colors on, should have a clue, right?
Then again, we also have the parents who are so happy and proud that there child just made it into a gang.
Um, WHAT?!?
Some people want there child to go to collage, make a national sports team or become a useful member of society.
Some though decide that they want there children to join the local gangs?
They want there children to follow in there foot steps?
It would seem to me that if they had to do certain things to not only join but to stay in, they would know that there children would and will have to do the same things?
I am not a parent, but I would like to think that K-D has come out OK?
She is the same thing right?
I know when she goes out, where she goes and who she is hanging out with.
Same concepts I believe as a parent?
I know it is not as simple as raising a dog, but isn’t that the basic structure that helps keep kids on the right path?
I mean isn’t it a parents job to protect there children and try and keep them away from danger?
At what point did this country go so wrong?
O, yea, once people stopped caring what happened to others and only wondered about and cared about themselves and there own.

So, I am going to wrap this up because I am trying to keep it a little shorter then I would like it to be because I can rant on this topic for some time.
The next time you see something that isn’t right you don’t need to jump out and stop it.
But take notes if only as you drive by and contact the police.
Let them know that 3 kids are beating the snot out of another one on the street corner and that a medic might be needed.
Crime persists because we are to lazy and scared to stop it.

So, that’s my thoughts on this week.
That and go see Kick Ass!