Critter Sitter's Blog: Spain

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Compassion, Love and Peace

This is going to be my last political posting for a while.... the news just keeps getting more disgusting, appalling, and hopeless each day. We, humanity, seem to be degenerating at a great rate at this point in time.
I am still reeling from the attacks made by all the groups that poured in to Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend for the "Unite the Right" gathering. We are having a march in Denver, tomorrow, to celebrate the life of Heather D Heyer, the paralegal killed last Saturday by a professed Nazi supporter. This is too little, too late, but we will honor the memory of a young woman who was protesting hatred by marching quietly on a street with her friends.
There has been an outbreak of attacks against innocent people this week. First, Thursday evening, the van attack on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain - that left 14 dead and over 100 injured. Then the attack in Camblis, a two hour drive south of Barcelona. (Camblis was where some of the planning for the 9-11 attacks took place.) There was also an explosion there the night before the attack at Las Ramblas, and police now believe that the people involved in the Barcelona attack had been planning to bomb several places before "something went wrong" at their manufacturing site, and they decided a vehicular attack was in order. The driver of the van at Las Ramblas is still at large and being sought throughout Europe.
Then there was the knife attack in the market square of Turku, Finland the following day. An 18-year-old man from Morocco attacked several women with a knife, killing two. He reportedly targeted eight women, one of which was pushing a baby carriage. Two men tried to intervene, and both of them were stabbed, as well; one of whom was so severely cut that he may lose his arm. The suspect was shot in the leg, arrested and taken to the hospital. Four other men have been arrested with suspected ties to the attacker.
This morning, a man in the Siberian town of Surgut, in Russia, stabbed at least eight people, seriously wounding two of them. The Russian police fired shots at the man and killed him. They are investigating the incident.
Friday night: In Kissimmee, Florida, two officers responded to a call and were apparently ambushed. One officer is dead, the other in serious condition. A man has been arrested.
In Jacksonville, Florida, two officers responded to a call about a man considering suicide. He greeted them with shots from a high-powered rifle, shooting one policeman in both hands, and the other in the stomach. The man was killed by the officers.
In Fayette County, Pennsylvania, two officers approached a man to serve a warrant. The man reached into his backpack, pulled out a gun and shot both officers. The officers shot and killed that man, also.
Too much death and destruction for me, folks.... I know this happens every day in our country, and around the world. But I want PEACE for all.
Then there is the ousting of Steve Bannon from the White House - he's going back to Breibart News to spew more hatred and ignorance.
The world needs help - compassion, love, and peace need to rule this place.