The sin of certainty of wrongness in South Carolina.

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Monday June 22, 2015 · 4:26 PM PDT

2015/06/22 · 16:26

Nine wonderful citizens of Charleston, South Carolina were murdered in cold blood after taking a stranger, wearing a fanny pack holding a concealed weapon, into their midst to teach kindness, goodness and respect for their fellow man.
Why????
Even the perpetrator had second thoughts about carrying out his crime due to the goodness of these angelic people.
He was certain of his wrongness in interpreting the world around him and influenced by his own irrational conclusions to act in a manner that resembles terrorist illogic.
The greater cause outweighs the rights of those to be sacrificed.
Where does this illogic come from? Everywhere in our teachings of human history. The tragedies, massacres, genocides are all justified by the "greater cause".
Nonsense! There is no justification for murdering one's fellow person. We do it regularly in society. We execute bad people after due process..killing. We kill extremists and terrorists for killing others...more killing. We kill political leaders who threaten our way of life...justified killing. We kill those who are thinking about killing us...preemptive killing. We kill spouses and significant others if we can't handle the stress they give us....emotional killing. We kill for the high it gives us.....pathologic killing. We kill to control others...bullying killing. We kill for money....professional killing.
We kill to save others....acceptable killing. Accident victims....tragic killings. We give deranged persons lethal weapons...killing by proxy. We kill people who threaten police with violence...Killing or suicide by police. We deny treatment to the mentally ill who commit suicide...killing by neglect. We make needy people feel isolated in society who then commit suicide....killing by shunning.
We kill civilians...killing by collateral damage. We kill hostages...killing while saving. In other words...we kill for many reasons that we feel are justified so the illogical , disturbed mind has many examples of justified homicide to pick from in society.
That's where the problem lies. Killing is an inherent activity of humans and we have not progressed much farther then our ancient ancestors in that regard. We have only advanced our technology and ability to kill more, faster and by more gruesome means then before.
Yet, the world's population is still growing at a phenomenal rate. The reason is that most people never kill anyone. The killing is still done by the 1% most violent people amongst us and we allow them to do so under the guise of protecting the other 99% from the other guys bad men.
We spend enormous quantities of resources to allow for the killing or defense from killing of these 1 % of "warriors" in our societies.
Government was developed to organize and protect the 99% from the violent 1% with laws and due process. Instead governments have joined in the killing spree and made it more efficient. Profit by industry also drives the violence and fear is spread amongst the many to get their cooperation by allowing for better security at the expense of individual freedom.
The nine who were massacred in South Carolina were killed because they were black and the sacrifice was justified by the killer so a race war would start and reverse the trends in the USA that he was so wrongly interpreting.
The sin of certainty is the reason and our society and history unfortunately provides false fodder for the deranged amongst us.
May we learn from this episode and direct the cure appropriately.

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Tuesday February 21, 2012 · 6:49 AM PST

2012/02/21 · 06:49

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Saturday January 30, 2010 · 11:30 AM PST

2010/01/30 · 11:30

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Listen to Graber and Deutch discuss the issues here.This is an oral diary for Daily Kos Progressives to actually hear their future congressman.

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 5:56 PM PST

2010/01/22 · 17:56

[This diary has been edited for copyright infringement. -- MB]

Florida's 19th Congressional District
State Sen. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, has missed an entire special session and 16 committee meetings, more than any Florida lawmaker, since he started campaigning for his party's U.S. House nomination, state legislative records show.

Deutch said he had a "balancing act" between representing the constituents in his Boca Raton-Delray Beach-based Senate district while trying to engage the 450,000 voters in the U.S. House district he is trying to win.

Deutch has no plans to resign his Senate seat, unless he is elected to Congress in April. He acknowledged that quitting then will leave his Senate district with no representation in the final, critical days of the state legislative session.

Meanwhile, one of his primary opponents wonders how well the district is being represented now.

"It's a major concern," former Broward County Mayor Ben Graber said. "It shows a pattern of irresponsibility."

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 7:21 PM PST

2010/01/18 · 19:21

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1/18/2010, 2:37 p.m. EST The Associated Press

(AP) — The following are TEST returns.

The AP has stated that these results are proprietary and not for public view. They were published inadvertantly. The Graber campaign has voluntarily removed them.

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Saturday January 09, 2010 · 12:16 PM PST

2010/01/09 · 12:16

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Thursday December 31, 2009 · 12:45 PM PST

2009/12/31 · 12:45

In December 1968, Sandy and I began to plan our New Years event. We were both attending Queens College in Flushing and we had been invited to some New Year’s bashes, but we decided that it was about time for these two New Yorkers to go to Times Square with all the crowds and experience what we watched on television for years.

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Sunday December 13, 2009 · 7:26 PM PST

2009/12/13 · 19:26

Many nations are attempting to reach a level of advanced civilization and western acceptance in the world today. The United States of America should be a standard barer for those human rights perceived as necessary to attain such status. Interestingly , if one reviews multiple societies and the qualities that separate modern from primitive, two values emerge. An advance society can be defined by how It honors human rights and How It treats women.

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Saturday December 12, 2009 · 8:03 AM PST

2009/12/12 · 08:03

Ben Graber, candidate for Congressional District 19, Florida was a student during the Vietnam war era in the sixties. George McGovern, was a U.S. Senator at that time and an anti war advocate. Both witnessed the same events and experienced first hand the tragedy of the times. Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it's mistakes. Ben Graber is now an anti Afghanistan war congressional candidate. He will share his life experiences and need to end this conflict with congress as they continue to wander deeper into the morass. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

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Saturday December 05, 2009 · 6:05 AM PST

2009/12/05 · 06:05

State Sen. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, praised President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy as "thoughtful" during a Voters Coalition debate Thursday while his rival in a special Democratic congressional primary, Ben Graber, declared himself "against the escalation in Afghanistan" and opposed to "militarism" in general.

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Tuesday December 01, 2009 · 12:38 AM PST

2009/12/01 · 00:38

Ben Graber vs. Ted Deutch for Congress, Fl-19 update

Today a clear break in policy between Ben Graber and Ted Deutch became apparent. Graber has condemned President Obama's military surge in Afghanistan, Deutch is clearly supportive.

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Sunday November 29, 2009 · 8:54 AM PST

2009/11/29 · 08:54

Ben Graber, candidate for Congressional District Fl-19, democrat will not remain silent about weakening a woman's right to choose in the health care bill.

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