If you read my post ‘What Words Mean’ you will get an idea of what I am talking about. See its evolved beyond simply getting an explanation from the original poster to where now, several years of work, helping and being a part of a larger community has come to an end. It is rather sad to see this battle end as it has, but I have other things to manage, than to fight a losing cause with a bunch of racists and bigots.

Needless to say it got worse. I opted to not respond to things after it got a bit heated, and instead of it cooling off, it became open season. Guess they smelled blood or something, but it amazes me how vicious and mean these bigots can get. I shouldn’t be surprised really however it is what this world is becoming that has me rocked a bit.

I can shrug and walk away from the forum because frankly its no better than the back biting shit that GFY has become famous for. I guess this place has opted to become the sister site or something. I mean bigotted remarks right after each other, as if it is all a big joke. Well to them I suppose it is, and once more the silent majority stay silent, but hey, that’s okay too.

I guess what has me worried is how so many are becoming so nasty in their opposition to homosexuals. A supposed well qualified adult lawyer who is more determined than factual to denigrade homosexuals as power hungry, as politically vocal than in protecting the rights of those in a minority. Instead he is more interested in trying to make it out like the Shrinks who realized being gay is not a disease was just political pressure put on them, and that it wasn’t based on fact. Him and one other are more upset that suddenly gay includes meaning homosexuals than they are that people use words to hurt.

Oh well, guess I am just feeling bitter, though really I just feel sad. Not for myself really, but at the state that gay relations is in across America and the world really. It is like we are the demon that needs to be exorcized out of society. Sort of the parahiah that is strikingly close to how Hitler dealt with the Jews.

Think about it, because it is plausible given how erratic America is becoming. It has no foreign policy other than gun boat diplomacy, and now it appears Bush has his sites on Iran. Failing in Iraq he is once more threatening Iran and it is scary. Not just for the possibility of another religious war happening between Muslim and Christian, but because of what ordinary people must sacrifice in war.

Yes, there is loss of life, but it is what happens to society in war. Look back to WWII and see how things were, where government controls were stringent and basic human rights were put aside, all in the name of the greater good of the nation and the great reason of all, National Security.  Citizens who looked different were stripped of rights, land, and common decency and placed in internment camps. What perhaps is the most sinister of all that, is that it applied to the Japense descentents only, not the German or Italian ones. Again showing how racism effects the day to day life of society.

Today it is worse, as it is based on religion. Politics and Religion, two topics destined to create a great deal of acrimony, throw in a little bigotry and prejudices, and well how far can a modern version of Auschwitz be? Look around at the basic civil rights that are gone. The right to privacy is a shadow of its former self, as warrantless wiretaps take center stage.

How about the no fly list? You have no say in defending whether you should or shouldnt be on that list. If you travel through the USA, you are liable to be whisked off the plane by the FBI and sent to your birth country, while your adopted country is lied to and deceived. And you have no idea that you are even on the list.

Course you can be held in secret prisons, without even benefit of counsel and if you get a good lawyer at some point, well he might be refused permission to see you simply because he voices an objection at how you have been treated in these secret prisons. I mean come on, just because Bush says he’s no longer having them doesn’t make it so. After all he did give Brown a pat on the back for his work on Katrina and then sacked him shortly afterwards.  Obviously Bush doesn’t believe in loyalty to his minions, which makes one wonder why any support him, like our beloved copy of Bush, Stephen Harper.

It is a crazy world, and so far the battle for simple decency, for simple acceptance seems to be failing. We have a Nazi installed as Pope who is willing to attack any and all who support equality for all, a President who sees Terrorists under every bed, and a nation who can’t see that a forest is made up of lots of different trees, not just one kind.

The battle might be lost, and life moves on. However the war is far from lost. There still are good people out there willing to fight for basic human dignity, human respect. They aren’t a large number it seems, especially in place like adult webmaster forums but that doesn’t matter. There are some who do raise their voices to aid those who are being oppressed, so there still is hope. Who knows, maybe one day another Churchill or Roosevelt will come out of the wilderness, but for now this battle is over.

It is sad really, but then life doesn’t revolve around a webmaster forum. It revolves around people, and I have learnt that there are good decent people still, so yes, the battle was lost, but the war, it is just beginning and far from being lost. Setbacks happen, but you know, whether in England, or in Australia, there still are good folk willing to fight, and that gives one courage to go on.

What it comes down to, is simply to keep on going. Fight the battles you must, win or lose there are still plenty of battles to be waged. Eventually the war will end, until the next one comes along.