Dear fellow protestors,
Thank you for protesting the terrorist camps today in the cold pouring rain. It is important yet difficult for Americans to admit they are not doing some things the best they could. Protesting the School of the Americas and all the terrorist traning our nation does is both honorable and necessary. Americans must know what karma they are reaping and what measures their government is exacting upon the people of the world in their name to keep their dreams alive. Training people to kill, pillage, and destroy the lives of innocent people is not an appropriate or honorable way to keep the American life-style alive.
What appears to be prevailing in our country today is motivation by fear. We must go to war to seek revenge and send a message to the rest of the world that we are not to be messed with. Unfortunately the problem is much deeper than this simplistic emotional answer.
To rid the world of the current deepening dilemma is to move our country's attitude away from "We don't want the world to love us, we want the world to fear us" toward "We want the world to respect us for our true generosity and caring".
This will only come from educating ourselves, our fellow citizens, our fellow world travelers as to how our world works. Then we must educate ourselves as to what our dreams are then we must encourage those dreams in order to harvest the awesome abundance that this planet is capable of providing.
The most difficult feelings I had to deal with after 9/11 was the loss of dreams. How could my dreams be achieved now? How could my son's dreams be accomplished. I felt a closing in of all our dreams and hopes for a bright future like some dark cloud had captured the sun and an eternal pall had settled over the world. Dreaming of a bright future in times of war is hard but it is those dreams that are the most sturdy and vigorous for they have stood the test of the worst of times and shown the character of desire to achieve that great dreams require.
May all your dreams come true,
Michael Tivana