Our police roam the streets sworn to “protect and serve” — and yet regularly harass those of different creed or color, regularly prosecute those of trying to feed the homeless (or beautify our neighborhoods or grow our own sustenance or protest peacefully), and regularly send the innocent to prison just to conveniently “close cases” ….. and yet demand reverence & respect for their authority.

We are inundated with injustice & corruption, my Friends … so REBEL against it however you are able; remembering as you go forth to do so that even the smallest act of peaceful protest makes the world a better place …

… and that one of the most powerful acts of peaceful protest is the open act of Forgiveness.

Indeed, remember that fighting against injustice doesn’t encourage the corrupt to become just; it actually persuades them to become more stealthy in their corruption … that attacking evil doesn’t encourage the aggressive to become peaceful; but actually persuades them to become more insidious with their acts of violence.

My Friends, to shatter what is wrong, we cannot respond in ways that echo that wrongness … No, to transform any wrong it is true that we must stand forth with courage — AND we must have the courage to to do so in ways that are Right.

*So today we stand before our politicians and forgive them their transgressions … and then we abandon politics completely in favor of rebuilding our own communities ourselves.

*So today we stand before our preachers and forgive them their flagrant arrogance & pious condemnations … and then we abandon religion completely in favor of BECOMING the caring hands of God ourselves.

*So today we stand before our police officers, judges and prosecuting attorneys and forgive them their callousness and their hypocrisies … and then we abandon bowing to external authority in favor of living a bold life filled with radical acts of Love.

Amen … Let it be so.

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ~ Elie Wiesel

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, you must build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller

“If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.” ~ Epictetus