Perspectives

I would like to comment on the subject of perspectives. There is a huge amount of press coverage about Marion Jones' alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs (known as doping). In comparison, there has been much less about the massacre of thousands in Burma. Put in perspective, who cares about Jones' mistakes when we should be focusing on the agony of those that live and have died in Burma? Marion Jones is the victim of a corrupted sports system that encourages improved performance because it generates increased profits. The corrupt IOC has prostituted the Olympic games well beyond any possible redemption. They are guilty -- not the athletes. Let us keep things in perspective -- Marion Jones' is not a story worthy of our attention, the Burma massacres are! Why are we spending millions on dollars on investigating Jones' drug use instead of spending that money on helping those in Burma?

And speaking of perspective and money, how can we possibly justify spending billions on a police action/war when we are denying health coverage to citizens, including children, and we are allowing curable diseases to go on killing people? How can we continue to bankrupt our country with intervention abroad while people that lost homes during hurricane Katrina are not yet back where they belong? Yet another example of the corrupted ways of our representatives in Washington. Put into perspective, it is also a good example of what happens when a country gets too comfortable with the Status Quo and too intimidated to raise its collective voice to protest.