CHANGE

Obama says we need change. I think its time we listened. People are still cracking jokes at Bush and I think the time has come to stop.

I'm not going to deny the power of humour. But there is an essential difference between cracking a joke to get a laugh and cracking a joke to raise a point. It is too late in the career of George W. Bush to laugh at his mistakes. What he has done is no laughing matter! He has taken human lifes; he has made a mockery of Christ; he has ravished the world for his own gain and all we can do is laugh.

What do you think allowed him to stay in power as long as he did? Your psuedo-political views; you hoping on the bandwagon of "let's make a laughing stock of Bush"; when it all boils down to it--your apathy is to blame. I am sick of people who don't have opinions; who don't believe that politics affect them. I want you to stop for just one second. Stop laughing, stop partying, stop! Look around you. Everyday people are dying of starvation, of easily curable diseases, from bombs being dropped on their houses, from stepping on land-mines. People are being born into starvation, poverty, refugee situations. How can you just sit around while this is happening and say that you don't have an opinion!?

How many of you are in university? How many of you consider yourself intelligent? How many of you are aware of what is happening outside of your front door? How many of you care?

I read all this junk in your profiles about how "you should be the change you wish to see in the world" or about how you really care about world issues. But these are just words. Do you really believe it? If you really want to make a difference you can't just sit on your butt and laugh at (or make) jokes about serious issues. Ask yourself why the joke was made. Was it made just to get a momentary giggle? to fodder some lame comedian's gig? or was it made to inspire you? to show you that something is wrong?

Please get off your butt and do something. Educate yourself. Stop and talk to the people passing out flyers. Use Google for God's sake.

The world is at your finger tips and the sole purpose of the internet is not just to entertain you but to inform you!!

Get with it!

-C.S.