The more I think about it the more I like the 'Go to Hell' defense system against Terrorism. Tell them to Go to Hell and I wish the heck we didn't have a Government that was in turn Hellbent on using the whole issue as a means to just maintain their own 'security' in power while bleeding our nation. Consolidate and strengthen the whole concept of a Fighting America a lean and mean 'Freedom Machine' its our Empire with those good old boys in control. Keep the citizenry duly paranoid and fearful None of that liberal crap... though like good students of the Power game you have to use all your tools to maintain the illusion that you are at the Center of America. So get your speechwriters to craft some elegant puff on behalf of Coretta Scott King. courtesy ...watson_ getty images  What were all those white people doing up their on the stage at the service.?  Who invited them?   I guess no one wanted to be rude so you have to invite them all.   Kind of strange I thought. I mean I can see having a few but just this phalanx of White Presidents seemed a little disproportionate to a battle that is not even close to the Top of the Mountain... actually I do believe we are getting close but MLK had in mind a Non-Violent Revolution for all the peoples of the Earth maybe I am stretching but somehow there it seemed to me he never would have stopped where there is so much profound suffering and injustice in the world this planet is packed with Poor, Very Poor and Extremely Poor people. Dying like .. as if they were less than human to disease and hunger.    And as if Racism has been conquered in America. Personally I think the battle against racism is fought with as little intelligence as the battle against Terrorism or for some Nationalism. For me I think you might just as well forget all of those battles against such formidable enemies...Impossible enemies but easily defeated if I think we took a different tack. Treated not like enemies but as just some mere nutritional imbalance of intelligence. I believe that little 'ism' thing means or implies a belief system. Now how can you beat into submission someone's belief system I don't believe you try you just keep persistently exposing people to the positive alternatives and just focus on this greater wholeness that exists they will come around and maybe quickly.  Reality: Tremendous progress in America in 'Race' relations over a 50 year period. Tremendous adjustment of getting what is simply right. That the people of the world are all human beings. That everyone of all the variations of evolution from all the corners of the Planet of us humans are extraordinarily fine beings... well maybe not the 'angry idiots' armed or otherwise prone to go to war.... yeah and maybe we all are just a little nuts in our own ways OK so we got some issues, but overall nothing that a little money in our pockets, maybe a job you liked, a good roof over our heads wouldn't mellow out most of us stress cases.  Reality: In America long long ways to go.     Why do the poorest schools in America get the least attention? Why isn't that where we have the highest priorities?     Unbelievable.      Why are foul places like San Quentin in California filled with young black men doing time for petty crimes where young white men from wealthy circumstances wouldn't possibly be there. Example false ID to a police officer can you imagine your good teenager busted from over here in the Kent Woodlands dumb enough to show the phony ID that got them into the bar to the Cop who pulled them over. I bet it happens. They don't end up in San Quentin. 'They need the bodies' as a young man (with his buddies on his release date from Quentin) I drove home in my cab one day explained to me. Who does? The prison system its a major economic force here in California every politician has received their gift from the Prison Guard Unions.. that's right some more Prisons just what we need.    Do we accept that just because these are poor people or is it easier to stay blind because they are poor black men? I think we have a long way to go.    Try to stay on the positive path I told these guys in my own way don't go back. Born in the wrong neighborhood they said. Well Personal Responsibility guys we got to find our own power in the meantime all these elected representatives in our Democracy need a strong dose of that too. Is this a form of corruption this Prison Union lobby in California and do poor black and latino men pay the price? It's all complicated but I just don't think any American Politician present or former should be on the stage to remember the King legacy Corettas and Martins without rededicating themselves to the battle particularly in the realm of Education and in our Prison and Justice system..   Let's face it personal responsibility needs to become the standard the Gold Standard. Long ways to go. Teaching kids teaching ourselves.          Guy Meyer, Jr.                   February 8, 2006         San Anselmo, California               guy@lifesignsphoto.com