Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

There is a saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. So if this be true, look back through the pictures of time and the events of the greatest kaos in history and picture the people most responsible for those events. Were they the quiet church mouse type.? Not at all, they were the ones that were not happy with lubricating the squeaky wheel with just grease; they wanted to do it with the fluid rendered from the bodies of their enemies.

  The Romans were cruel, the Arabs were cruel, the Huns were heartless, and as we move into more modern times we learn of the man who impaled his victims. Locked their victims in a hall and burned it down around them, feasting on the remains. Men who waged war on entire groups because of their faith, starved them, worked them to death, sent them in mass to the gas chamber and yet was reported to be afraid of ghosts.

  Picture these men and the ones that come to mind easiest are Hitler, Stalin, Musolini, Franco of Spain, Moa of China, The leader of North Viet Nam, Cambodia and the Philippines as well as North Korea. And we have had a man that promotes the same brand of hate and dissent in our own government and he has a following that makes no sense to me. This brand of leadership is what you expect from a mob boss, someone that has no respect for anyone and is willing and able to order the killing of someone just because they did something that upset him. We do not need such leadership.

  Not everyone is capable of being a leader, great or otherwise, they cannot see the situation for what it is or the persons they are dealing with for who they are. Decisions need to be made and sometimes in a limited amount of time and for some that is not possible.

  We have had some great people in leadership positions many of whom were military like Eisenhower, Patton, MacAuther, Stormin Normin, Powell, to name a few and there have been some remarkable people in the civilian area as well MLK, Edison, Bell, the head of Chrysler. 

Some of these people were driven to succeed and some it just came to them. Regardless of the way it arrived they were all able to do great things with what they were given.

  Leadership is not tyranny. It is not the act of taking whatever you see that you want and not caring about who it belonged to or where it came from. Our leaders do not sign decorations to further their own positions, or executive letters. In a democracy every citizen is an equally preshuse  individual. They are not lesser beings because of their faith, skin color, who they choose to love, how they choose to be identified as nor for any other reason. 

  Everyone of them started life as a cute baby, grew into a good looking adult, and will age into an extraordinarily interesting senior citizen.  Along the way from birth to final rest they will all have adventures, fortunes and misfortunes and experience life as they should. Life is complicated enough without adding a dick, dictator

  Today we are still caught in the arms of battles over religion, territory and resources. The resources are there for all to use, they all will it just means someone gets to claim the ownership first. The land is again a resource that will change hands and change again as time goes one because as with the resource beneath the surface ownership is important. As to religion this is the sorriest of reasons to fight someone. If there is a creator it is a good bet there is only one. Look around do you see what looks like the dysfunctional couple decorating the world? No, so only one, and he or she may not be very keen on individuals running around killing one another over ideologies. Ever notice the idiot in ideology?.