Have we learnt nothing

The plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty reads: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These lines are from the poem "The New Colossus," written by Emma Lazarus in 1883

For those that don't know i am not American, yet I am married to one. I was until November last year considering taking duel citizenship, mealy to ease some situations when travelling to and from the USA for family matters. My husband was considering the same. However now I am looking on in horror as the entire free world of the west slowly disintegrates from the actions of one person. Actually it's not one person, it's the one person in each country who has the power and supposedly responsibilityof each nation on their shoulders. Our leader has now shown her  colours and they are that of a judas to her nation.

Britain, more than America even should have learnt the lessons of the last two world wars! But instead we are too caught up in everyone else's business to stand up for what is right. So as a human being, I'm going to stand up, alone I may be but so be it. I can not in true counciousness be silent any longer. 

I am a churchill by birth, for those who don't know their history in detail, I am going to highlight a few points. Most Churchill's are directly related to the Duke of Marlborough, a key figure in military history, and his wife a shrewd lady at court how had the ear of the Queen and used it. Over the years everyone has learnt the surname thanks to one of his more recent relatives, a man who did more for Britain throughout two wold wars than any other man. Personally I'm not from that branch directly, however the original grit of our founder is still there, along withthe delightful black dog, but hey. My family never actuallymade it onto the battlefields of war, not through want of trying though. Every time they enlisted they were hijacked for other duties, some of which I can't talk about as we couldn't discuss it at home. However my grandmother, another churchill by  marriage like the original, was a key player in the original kinder transport of world war two. She, along with the person she worked for, spent a large portion of the war, providing every legal loophole to rescue as many young Jewish people out of occupied countries as possible. I never got to meet this amazing women, but I do know even after the war, and for a long time after even when she became bed ridden with cancer, she was still dealing with the paperwork to give that generation of people a chance.

Now I am facing a repeat of what she went through, as she raised her children. We aren't more than two generations long and the situation is being repeated. Sure the religion has changed, but the loss, the destruction of youth, the general persecution by religious identity is the same. The only reason we aren't at war status is because no one has been brave enough to call it. We are still dropping bombs on entire countries. And like the war before other countries are using it to score it's own agenda. Also like the previous war we are persecuting more than one religious group, but other minorities that frighten certain people. Yet they swear it is in the name of a certain religion. Yet they have convientantly forgot that Judaism gave birth to Christianity which gave birth to Islam, so by that logic the son I
Has turned on his father in the past and now on to his own son. By the same logic the very scriptures they claim to uphold, preach of tolerance and love, not of war and murder.

History claims seventy five percent of all wars have been caused by religion difference, when in reality one hundred percent of all wars have been caused by fear bred intolerance, and most of greed and the need to dominate what frightens us. Rather than educate and embrace difference, to create harmony and choice. Most wars in the last 400 hundred years have been fought by the everyday man and woman on the comand of a few people. A few people who make or break their reputation by basically throwing all their toys out the pram, till one side gives in, and the cost is blood shed on both sides.

 War and warlike litigation do not unite a nation to be great, they divide people till they blindly submit to the few dominates will. Yet it's a few of these little people who take these horrendous situations and add some humanity, like the kinder transport, and more famously the famous Schlinder, who sheltered many. It was the little people on Christmas day on the battlefields of world war one, who took the day to share a mural day. It's was the little people who took sandwiches and cigarettesto the POWS as they were releasedfrom those camps, despite being starved themselves.On that not it will be the little people who remind the various governments in the world that we can't go through all this again. It will be the little people who remind us that we should have learnt this lesson the last few times. 

So next time you read a piece of news about the next crazy idea, and think have we gone mad, it's that little voice you need to listen to. That little voice is the concious of all those who fell before.