WORDS

     Words. Language. The Word. Word indeed. Communication. But what does it mean?
     We communicate with others thru gestures and words and our actions are often predicated by our words. So are we careful in the use of our words or do we waste them or worse, use them to fool others, to prove ourselves hypocrites.
     There are words of sense and words of anger. There are words that encourage, share the love and words that spread the hate, encourage it. What words does one use and how does it reflect one's inner soul and worth as a human being.
     Today words are increasingly being thrown about in a dangerous manner. We do not mean half the words we say so how is one to trust another. The answer? Trust is hard to come by. Words must be followed by appropriate action, action that fits the words if we are to believe what our ears hear. Too often that action is not there.
     Suddenly Trump is shouting to the winds that the federal government will be there. Truly? He just signed an executive order that would reverse the regulations that would have funded the federal government infrastructure to be able to stand up to intense flooding such as Harvey. But inside that regulation was the recognition that climate change is contributing to these new and more frequent floods so uh uh. Away it goes. And now funds will be forthcoming to aid the victims of his shortsightedness? And with what funds since he promises to veto any budget unless he gets his hateful Wall.
    The preacher Osteen with his mega church speaks of a human brotherhood and of helping people but when push comes to shove he eats his words and keeps his church doors shut to refugees from the floodwaters. Gasbag in the wrong time.
     Tillerson and Mattis and Cohn disavow the words of their overseer, Trump, but what do these words mean if there is no action to follow? What do they mean if Trump pushes his hateful thoughts upon our country, encouraging the lowest common denominators of people to push to the fore? Whose actions will become the factual laws of the land? Will it be the words and actions of Arpaio who now wants his conviction overturned as he "did not do anything wrong" or so he says. Nope, just did some magnificent acts of bigotry and hate, along with his brother sheriff from Maine who wrote a book of hate, Clarke did, and got the prez to tout it in his tweets.
      In the most recent New York magazine, several anonymous federal employees are asked when or what would make them quit their jobs. All of them had  a redline but all hedged on that except for one who had already walked out for the present. They hemmed and hawed as to what they would do if asked to do something that violated their beliefs, to do something wrong. All mentioned the need to have a job but what if that job entails doing massive wrong to others? Read this from the Nuremberg trials.
     "....send a clear message to each and very German, to each and every citizen of each and every nation, that they are as responsible for the actions of their leaders as are the leaders themselves responsible for the crimes they commit; that while  some (sic) might be following orders, the nation which closes its eyes to the behavior of its leaders is as responsible for their crimes as are the leaders responsible to their nation." Now read it again as I did when I first read it.
     Where will we stand, as individuals, as Americans, as a nation and what will history say about us if we stand by and allow these haters, this awful 'leader' to lead us down the road of hatred and worse. He has exposed a festering undergrowth of hatred within the hearts of some of our citizens and rather than see it shrivel upon its exposure, he encourages its growth, backs it up with his words and yes, his actions. Will we stand by as we take people off to prison for their orientation or skin color or religious beliefs? Will we stand by and say and do nothing lest we be noticed and taken away too? But we will anyway for that is the way of hatred and words of hate - they lead to deeds of hate and no one is immune.
     We have a 'leader' who has allegedly colluded with the enemy to gain profits and to gain office. Every day it seems that more and more filth comes to light. We find that he was working on a massive Trump Tower in Russia with the encouragement that "this will make him President!" Now the journalists who exposed the Russians and their hacking have added a new chapter on Trump and his 2016 campaign and the Russian hackers and government.
     We should hide our heads in shame and frankly, I would do so in great despair were it not for moments of shining light and the best moments of mankind. In a time of great need and shock, instead of tweeting, the moron, as who has Wi fi in the middle of dragging one's children to safety in a moment of terror, these people go out and save others be it on a paddleboard or a boat or a Cajun fleet from Louisiana, or private boats of theirs or simply carrying people off on their backs and in their arms and notice please that color plays no part as white on black and black on white and brown on the same - all help each other. So where the hell are you, Trump? Shut the hell up and put your money where your mouth is and hey, here is an idea, send a whopping great donation of millions from the Trump Organization to the people of Houston! You certainly are earning money every day from our taxes as you stay in your own hotels, so pay it forward. Actions and not your wasteful and harmful and hurtful words.
     Your hate filled words have led to the shooting of a missile over the nation of Japan by that nutjob in North Korea. And what is next? What is next? Is your finger poised to push that button as you go berserk with more words of hate? Where does it end? When we are back in tribes trying to stay alive and there is no more America, no more assurance of the survival of mankind?
     And your hate leads to the imitation by others who also shout words of hate. Look at the petty would be tyrants here in America and around the world. YOU have encouraged this, and you certainly have encouraged David Israel and crew as they too shout words of hate, deny freedom and rights, frighten others to follow in their footsteps, deluded others and have led us here to a frightening edge of a cliff. The ugliness of your soul and that of his is as ugly as is the new sign at our entrance with no beauty, no flowers, no joy, just sitting there looking like an entrance to a monument store, a sample of its gravestone ability. Ugly, ugly, ugly.
     Ugly are the words of hate and ugly are the actions that result. Ugly is what we become when we follow either by word, deed or even inaction. WE are responsible for what we allow. WE!! US!!