***** nd. In all my years I am just now for the first time seeing that the attack on the human rights of anyone is an attack on the human rights of everyone. I don't think there is anything clever in the seeing this. Little could be more objectively obvious. So why has it taken me so long? Because my culture, the western, U.S., White, male dominated culture, requires the embrace of hypocrisy, of delustion, on this point. In the way that Orwell spoke of down meaning up and up meaning down my culture depends upon the human rights of everyone meaning the human rights of the over privileged. And one growing up in an ocean of lies as I did finds it difficult to see the most obvious truth. Jesus, or some of the writers for him, saw this clearly. As you do unto the 'least of these' you do unto me - the foreigner, the enemy, the prisoner, the sick, the weak.... In mass we have not followed the likes of Jesus we have sprinted in the opposing direction and exactly as when cells in the body chronically that neglect their instructions the body begins to die of cancer rapidly. Whoever would trade safety for liberty will have neither is a paraphrase of one of the founding fathers . America, our chickens are coming home to roost.

In all my years I am just now for the first time seeing that the attack on the human rights of anyone is an attack on the human rights of everyone.  I don't think there is anything clever in the seeing this.  Little could be more objectively obvious.  So why has it taken me so long?  Because my culture, the western, U.S., White, male dominated culture, requires the embrace of hypocrisy, of delusion, on this point.  In the way that Orwell spoke of down meaning up and up meaning down my culture depends upon the human rights of everyone meaning the human rights of the over privileged.  And one growing up in an ocean of lies as I did finds it difficult to see the most obvious truth.  Jesus, or some of the writers for him, saw this clearly.  As you do unto the 'least of these' you do unto me - the foreigner, the enemy, the prisoner, the sick, the weak....  In mass we have not followed the likes of Jesus we have sprinted in the opposing direction and exactly as when cells in the body chronically that neglect their instructions the body begins to die of cancer rapidly. Whoever would trade safety for liberty will have neither is a paraphrase of one of the founding fathers .  America, our chickens are coming home to roost.