I don't usually talk too much about politics. You don't see me posting anti-Obama rants often, even though I can't stand much of what he does. You don't see me posting about Romney or Ron Paul or any of the other possible runners because I know that politics can be a very polarizing matter and that many of my friends have extremely differing ( Read more... )

I had cross-posted my post below to a couple of on-line communities outside of LiveJournal to try to get some awareness of this going. The murder of one teenage girl doesn't seem to make the news anymore, sadly. I thought that by getting this out there, then maybe, just maybe, that awareness could make a difference in someone's life ( Read more... )

If you haven't already, please go read happy_human's post here.

This post is what sparked this discussion.

One commenter lamented on the fact that the few "humane" and "gentle" ones out there have to sit and watch this all happening. I think my comment summed up my feelings on this nicely.

"We don't "have" to "sit and watch". We can hide our eyes, pretend ( Read more... )