Mindless America

Last week we remembered the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. The following day Robert Kennedy gave a speech in Cleveland Ohio. The speech has come to be remembered as "On the Mindless Menace of Violence." The speech should be read in its entirety to get his message but he gave a powerful denunciation of the American addiction to violence:

This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity to speak briefly to you about this mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives."

"Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by his assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero, and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people."

Ironically, RFK himself was murdered just two months later.

On April 4, 2018 a woman attacked Headquarters of Google in San Bruno CA, wounded 3 employees, and committed suicide. It seems that the mindless violence RFK warned about has become the "normal." Any nutter with a grudge can buy guns and ammunition so of course it follows that this country is destroying itself.