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Sunday-- April 21, 2002—Ground
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Vigilant "Earth Day!"
by
Cliff McKenzie
Editor, New York City Combat Correspondent News
GROUND ZERO, New York City,
April 21-- Today is Earth Day. It is a day for the
"environmentalist's" use to protest.
But I believe there is a more
important day we should celebrate--Vigilance Day!
The great ecology of human existence
is the heart of a child, not the soil upon which the child walks.
The rich loam of a child's soul is far
more precious to me than a tree, or the air, or the water or a bird or the
most endangered species of the animal kingdom.
Where is the clamor for Vigilance
Day? Where are the drums banging to drive out the pollution of
Terrorism from the ecology of a child's emotional forest?
I often wonder about mankind and
womankind's priorities.
Earth Day was launched in 1970 as a
national holiday by Senator Gaylord Nelson. As its benchmark, it
uses the vernal equinox to launch it--that time when the sun crosses the
equator making night and day of equal length in all parts of the world, 12
hours of day, 12 hours of night.
In a sense, we all become one at that
moment.
All differences evaporate.
We are married into one family, for
time literally stands still for a minute fraction of eternity.
We shed all barriers between us
because the world is in utter harmony according to the great Existence
Clock's hands which all point straight up simultaneously.
That moment is less than a blink of
an eye or a heartbeat, or the dropping of a grain of sand in an hourglass.
It is so minute we don't even know it happened unless we study the stars
and aim powerful astrophysical instruments to measure the exact moment of
the equinox. The time when Time stands still.
But instead of looking into the
hearts of life itself--the Terrorized souls of the children on earth--we
look at trees. We look at fish. We look at flowers.
We dance in the street wearing green. We demonstrate against
polluters of the soil, but not those of the soul.
Children are the seeds of
human kindness, or, of its Terror.
The shaping of a child's
belief systems is far more important to me than whether the emission of an
automobile gasps too much carbon dioxide.
Oh, don't get me wrong.
I am a firm believer in respecting the balance between humans and our
earth and all its resources. But I don't believe fighting the
pollution of the earth should come before battling the forces
imposing Terrorism on a child.
Like a garden, a child's
mind can be choked by weeds of Fear, rocks of Intimidation, and the
pollution of Complacency.
Careless gardeners can trample
the child's dreams, his or her hopes through abuse, neglect and selfish
inconsideration. Instead of nurturing a beautiful flower that yearns
to blossom, many children sprout up with twisted roots, and gnarled
leaves, coughing out toxins that grow into hatreds and violence both to
themselves and others.
A Terrorist is nothing
more than a child of neglect.
I believe we should
prosecute the parents of such a child along with its grandparents as
equals in the responsibility for the crime committed.
It isn't just Osama bin
Laden that should be on trial throughout the world press and military
tribunals, but also those who trained him to become what he is--those who
planted the seeds of hate, or neglected to pull out the weeds of Terror
before their roots took hold of his soul.
One cannot grow up to become a cold blooded killer without having
such a persona be fertilized by those who were in charge of
his upbringing. A garden of weeds is the result
of the gardener's neglect, it is not the fault of the garden.
When the world cries:
"How could someone do such a thing?" they should be really asking, "How
could a parent raise a child to do such a thing?"
The child molesters, the
killers, the wife beaters, the negligent parents who let their children
run amok, are all liable for the pollution of their children.
Society cannot allow the Gardeners of a Child to be absolved from his or
her actions on the grounds the child, who may have grown into an adult,
did such an act on his or her own.
Love of life begins at home.
If one is taught to love life as a
child, to respect himself or herself and others, then it becomes virtually
impossible for one to turn against oneself and others later in life.
Not that that isn't possible--anything is possible in an imperfect
world--but the justification for any Terrorist action against another
human being or creature, or the earth itself, must come back to haunt the
parents, the grandparents, the guardians of the child's Emotional and
Physical garden.
Earth Day promotes stopping violence
to the earth. It rings a bell of warning about the imbalance
between man and nature, yet ignores the true problem--that Terrorists of
the Earth are nothing more than children acting out their Terrorism in the
guise of an adult.
These are children whose weeds of Terror
were not plucked by Gardeners of Vigilance. Had the parents
and grandparents and guardians of such children become Parents of
Vigilance fighting constantly to keep the weeds of Fear, Intimidation and
Complacency from polluting the growth of the child's respect for himself
and the world, then such a child would grow into a selfish promoter of
violence and neglect for himself or herself and the world at large.
To do this a Parent of Vigilance
must fight Fear with Courage, and Intimidation with Conviction and
Complacency with Action. Unfortunately, too many parents believe a
child should be his or her own gardener. They leave the child to
make up his or her own rules because the parents are "too busy" struggling
to survive, or, too driven
by
their own selfish desires to make their garden flourish that they haven't
time to nurture their children's.
Some take it upon themselves to destroy a child's
garden by telling the child: "I wish you'd never been born."
Or, "if you weren't so stupid." Or, "can't you just leave me alone,
can't you see I'm busy."
Careless as well as intentional acts of
disconcert and disrespect for the growth of a child's personality and its
respect for itself drives many children into caves of Terror where they
feel "less than," or "not as good as," or believe "they have a right to be
selfish as their parents had that right when they neglected their needs."
I am not impressed with Earth Day.
To me, extolling the virtues of protecting
the planet from pollution is an afterthought, not an act of Vigilance.
Forethought involves teaching a child to
love himself or herself, and to respect all those things around him or her
as gifts, to be used wisely. But to do that, the Gardeners of
Vigilance must take the responsibility to first become Parents of
Vigilance.
They must vow to themselves to make their
children the strongest, healthiest seeds possible, and to plant those
seeds in the richest soil a human being can enjoy--the soil of love and
caring and respect.
From such seeds sprouts Gardeners of
Vigilance, not polluters of Terrorism.
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