So Tonight... My 85+ Year Old Mom Is Sobbing Uncontrollably...

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7. I am sorry to hear that

she was so badly affected.

Between you and me, that is really the kind of response that ISIS is trying to evoke and they are utilizing a media campaign to move and motivate people to feel exactly that way. That's manipulation, really.

Keep in mind that there are a host of terrible things that are happening across the world that would also evoke such a response, but they are not in the limelight and often ignored. If you do not focus on just certain people from certain places, then there is just reason to be concerned about many, many atrocities that just don't fit into the scheme of media and machinations to be an issue.

There are other places where people are flogged, mutilated and beheaded as a matter of policy and I don't need to point out who or or where. We have the death penalty here and it leans heavily on a racial bias along with the numbers of people who are exonerated by way of DNA evidence, so many innocent people are put to death because we still have a policy that allows it.

According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die every day from starvation and from illnesses that could easily be prevented and cured if anyone would bother to do so. It is not like this is an impossible task. So, you could fill an average football stadium with dead children that could be saved, about every three days.

We have more human slavery and trafficking than in the days of "slavery". There are close to 30-million people in that position right now and some of them are in America. That would range from forced labor to forced prostitution.

One could go on and on, but we generally are only allowed to see things through a lens darkly when it comes to mass media and the like. That is how a group like ISIS can get the spotlight when other unconscionable things are left out of the picture and people are manipulated to put their feelings and grief into what is given to them rather than to question why all the very easily fixed problems that affect so many and cause so much suffering and loss of life are not brought to the forefront.

There is a method to this madness and one day, I hope that the game ends and we get to a form of justice and equality that makes a difference.