“It can happen here! It has happened here! It might happen here again!”

blog41One of the easiest things to do is believe “it can’t happen here.”  Well, it can. It has and it will again. The only rights we all have are the ones we are willing to fight for. And those rights are not just OUR rights; they are everyone else’s as well. You must fight for the rights of others because someday they will be fighting for yours. A good example is the recently passed health care bill by the United States Congress.  It is very easy for the young to say that the “old” should pay their own health bills because, well, they are old. Well, the young people will be “old” someday and some other young people will be paying their bills.  In America, we are “all in this together.”  We all pay taxes for roads we will never drive on, schools our children will never attend, fire departments that never come to our home, police that never have cause to question us and catastrophic illnesses to families we will never meet. The reason America is great is because we do not leave anyone behind and photos like this remind us there will always be idiots with the IQ of room temperature and they do not national policy make.

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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