No COs

There can be no conscientious objectors in the fight between good and evil. You cannot sit out forever. Eventually, you'll be drafted. Mike H

I can think of nothing truer. We can wend our way through our workaday lives seemingly blithely ignoring events around us. Or not paying attention to details that we should. One day we are tooling along and bam, we hit a wall. It could be anything. It might happen to us or someone we know. Or simply stand out somehow catching our attention. Like a light going on.

The event could be anything as well. A realization that there are problems beyond the daily cares, either inside us or outside. There are many wrongs to be made right. Many Rights that are being wronged. We might reach a saturation point when we can't stand it anymore. We must DO something.

An example for us was the increasing drug crime in our neareastside neighborhood. Deals being made on the street. Kid couriers delivering drugs/money or receiving. Traffic all hours stopping and leaving quickly.

We armed ourselves and worked with Indianapolis Narcotics Squad to stop them. We did. Some were arrested. Some left. We also incurred the druggers' wrath. Forever watchful we remain resolute that we will not tolerate such evil and stop it to the best of our ability.

The war I speak of takes many forms. And can be invisible or spiritual as well because that is the root of it all. That invisible aspect often takes form with drug dealing or pedophilia (a bad term it means 'child love' in Greek, when in reality it is child defilement). It invariably involves rape, murder robbery and all the crimes we hear about. It also takes the form of taking away our Rights. It involves destroying our Republic and creating democracy. It thrives when we do nothing. It can haunt us.

Whatever form and however evil makes itself evident, please do what you can to fight it. Help stop crime both on the street and in Washington DC. Pray against darkness too. The longer you deny it, the more painful it will be.

But cheer up! We can join the fight whatever way we might, at any time. It's never too late.