CAMELOT?

          "Don't let it be forgot
             That once there was a spot
         For one brief shining moment that was   known
                  As Camelot."

     So go the words of the finale of Camelot, the idea of which began in great hope for the future, for the destiny of mankind, but which failed abysmally in the end.
     Camelot is what was referred to after the assassinations of the Kennedys, John and Robert, its shine and hope shattered. Once, the USA stood for something. Once, America meant honor, demanded respect, stood for something. Once, but no longer.
     Once, when America joined the fray it meant hope for the world. They sang of it in WWI - "The Yanks are Coming" . The Axis began to lose the war the very day they involved the USA in it, though it took long enough, but it also was the very public beginning of the end for our moral principles, for forgetting that there is a right and a wrong and if we were to mean anything as a country, we needed to think and act with care and thought, with moral principles as our guide.
     But we did not, refusing to bomb the train tracks of Auschwitz - Birkenau even as hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being rushed frantically into the gas chambers, 6,000 to 10,000 a day. And why no bombing? Oh, we might hurt a few prisoners. Uh huh! Like they were not being killed already. Ask the prisoners, the survivors what they would have wanted. But it was not to be, for why stop something that one really deep down did not have objection to, particularly in the State Department.
     We ignored the dirty and murderous background of Nazis after the war as we began a frenetic and frantic campaign, obsessed with the Red Scare and segued into the HUAC hearings and blacklistings of McCarthy.
     We lost our way in Vietnam, pulling a Big Lie entry into the war and 58,000 dead later plus hundreds of thousands of wounded and the thousands missing and the horrific aftereffects, we got out and today - we send tourist trips there, have trade with Vietnam and for what was all that death other than we lost our way.
     And it has continued till today. I read a phrase the other day and liked it and am borrowing it. We have a broken moral compass. It has led us astray, running off to the wrong paths, the wrong directions. Our leader is an embarrassment to us. He is a laughing stock to the rest of the world as he purses his lips and thinks that he is making a point. Instead he is tripping over himself trying to explain away his actions and inactions, the words of his twisted Secretary of State Kerry and the State Department's spokesman Joh Kirby as they condemn Israel for daring to allow their citizens to get in the way of knives, for daring to defend themselves, for shooting at body mass when faced with terrorists, murderers, of whatever age, for one  stabbing and attacking another is a murderer, plain and simple.
     We make excuses for animals and provide them with words for more. Why did it take so long for Obama to even mention or remark about the victims of this wave of murder? Is it okay to hack some 60 year old rabbi to death simply because he is Jewish? Is it okay to kill two men, stab a woman and her 2 year old toddler and then stand and laugh and spit on her when she runs, bleeding, pleading for help - and there was an Arab medical clinic right there!!!
     Camelot is broken, the shards of its dream lay across the world. One can hear the joyous sounds of the opening Camelot even as the dark shadows of the ending lyrics caused people to cry and cry we must for we have allowed this to happen.
     We have elected incompetents. We have allowed the world to fall back to a time when money, the fat cats, ruled the world and people meant nothing. So today we still have a mine owner who can ignore the safety rules. We have politicians who care naught for their constituents, only wishing to rant and rave. We have anti choice people who kill in the name of life, who scream for the fetus, but when that fetus is born and becomes an actual child, they elect the people who cut the programs that would help that very same child.
     We have become a nation of hypocrites, of incompetents, of moral deficients and the words of the few who are trying to change things are falling by the wayside. so once more it is okay to let people starve. Once more it is okay to let our social safety net get bigger and bigger holes. Once more it is okay to kill Jews because they are Jews and any other "excuse" to justify that killing should be slammed and the truth shouted to the heavens, but again, there is that broken moral compass.
     And do not think we are immune to the shattering of Camelot as we live in our little CV. Indeed not, for once, yes, we had a Camelot. It had its wrinkles and for the betterment of the Village and its future, we set up a UCO, meant to help the associations as they negotiated some Village wide contracts. That UCO has now grown into a monster, led by Mordreds out for their own power and might. This UCO has fallen into disrepair and worse and it is now upon US to fix the situation. If we cannot straighten out the rest of the world at least let us make a stand here. Get rid of the nasties, of the threateners, of those who do not wish to serve but to gain, to take, to bask in their own reflected assumed powers, They talk of reflection cracks and do not accept that the cracks are all in their moral compasses but if only they had the courage to truly look deeply into their own psyches and see the truth. If only.
     Help bring Camelot back. No one time or theory or philosophy is perfect. For that one needs to sit at the feet of the Lord, but until that time we can all try.  We need to vote with care and thought this national election, as difficult as it may be, as limited in honesty and moral strength and altruism as are the candidates, but try we must - and we must do the same here. Reject the anti Camelot state of David Israel and Ed Black and any so called heir they send down the track to take David's place. Send them all packing and let them all wear new t-shirts reading - we were sent packing.
    
     Camelot, Camelot.......