Some people have paraded through the streets and cheered with joy about the death of a truly evil man being gunned down. They cheer for justice with a blood lust that would impress my Viking ancestors. They shout with glee that Bin Laden was shot twice in his home. They scream that this is what he gets for messing with us. I can understand this reaction. I live in New York. I saw the towers fall. I used to work in Tower Two.

Others weep and say that any death is a failure and that even the life of such a man is valued and must be preserved. “Why not imprison him and put him on trial?” they say. I can see their point. We are a nation of laws and have all been raised with at least some respect for human life.

I say that both are wrong.

To take joy in the ending of any human life, we diminish our own humanity. This is a loss that is hard to reverse. Taking a human life is not a thing to celebrate or brag about. It is sad. He was the son of a father and mother who had to have loved him. He had children who loved him. They will hurt for years to come at the loss of this man.

However, this man was a cancer on the body of humanity. His evil spread wide and is still destroying the healthy lives of many who live on. He convinced many people to do evil and help the disease of his hatred spread. Innocent lives were snuffed out by the cruel and inhumane actions of him and his followers. How many fathers, mothers, wives, husbands, children and siblings have lost loved ones forever because his ideology said they must die a horrible death to make his point?

No, we should not kill a demented and diseased animal out of hate. Putting down such a creature is sad. It is a mercy to kill it and remove it from the world. We should only see it as a required action to preserve the safety of innocents. Do we taunt a tumor as we kill it with radiation? Or do we focus on helping the healthy flesh that remains to survive and heal? Do we yell abuse and the diseased limb that has had to be amputated? Or do we try to find ways to help the body recover the function that disease took from it?

Yes, he had to die. No, we don’t have to be transformed into his messengers by our removal of the diseased offal that was Osama. He is gone. It is sad that a man could be twisted into such a monster. But do not become a monster because of it.

To be fair, let’s look at someone who Huckabee did NOT remark on. Charlie Sheen has been prancing about like a lunatic for the last month showing his ass. He has been caught numerous times and even admitted to hiring hookers and strippers. His drug addictions and chemically altered binges are truly legendary. He exposed his twin sons to an environment filled with hookers and drugs. Sheen is even being accused of threatening to decapitate his estranged wife!

Does his silence mean that Huckabee thinks Sheen is a better role model than Portman?!?!? That would sound like the ethical point of view of a politician. They are just not known for being so open about it. Then again, a conservative Republican might have singled Portman out for other criteria that separate her from Sheen…

Now, he takes some of it back… He even says he does not “criticize the hardworking single mothers in our country.” Then, maybe he should tell us exactly why he thinks Ms. Portman is a worse example than Mr. Sheen.

The reality is, she is showing the young women out there, who may not choose to marry before having a child, that there is a right way to do it. Be employed. Be a good and healthy person. Do not jump into it before you know you can provide a good home for your child.

The last politician who made this kind of public statement about a famous star was Dan Quayle… Maybe Huchabee could use a better “role model” himself?

On the other hand, New York City has become a dictatorship run by an attempted “Mayor For Life”. Bloomberg has hampered efforts to control the rougue agency known as the MTA. When they see advantage to it, they act as a private company. When cornered about breaches of ethics and laws governing corporations, they are suddenly a city agency. A city agency that is in no way officially answerable to anyone. They raise the rates and leach off taxpayers at will. People working for minimum wage are paying full time salaries to fat managers who outnumber actual workers by a ridiculous margin and paying for them to have a free car and fuel to run it on. When there is a public outcry, the gluttonous management point to a select few who “double dip” the pension system and scam the overtime system. When they run out of people who played the system at the lower levels, they vilify the union in general as the true cause of the public’s woes, while cutting services and raising rates. All supported by the mayor and other key people in government. This makes people feel insecure enough to think they need a “money man” in the mayor’s office. So the City council gets pressured until the term limit laws are set aside, without any attempt to give the people of the city any choice in the matter. Now, it already looks like he will try it again! Term limits were put in place democratically, they should not be removed in any other way.

If these acts of evil bother you, act on it. No, do not throw mud. Do not throw anything or break anything. Simply pull across the street and buy gas at another place. The consumer has the power to kill a company by choking off their income. Vote with dead presidents.

Who do you think is really victimized when a person enters our country illegally? Big business could not be less interested in stopping it. They save untold millions a year by using workers that can be paid illegal slave wages and treated worse than livestock. Is it the middle class? Those folks who get unionized and non-unionized jobs in jobs for big corporations at various levels of the businesses? They rarely see anything but cheaper products at big chain stores and cheap day labor for landscaping around the house as the effects. Maybe it’s the people who worked for years to gain LEGAL access to this country, looked for jobs, and found that most of them involved working under the table and living in conditions no other American would willingly endure… Maybe it’s the poor guy who goes looking for an honest job in the city, only to find that most of the employers will not hire him because they have to pay him a fair wage. Maybe it’s the grandmother who is killed one night by a person who broke into her home to get the money to pay for fake documents. Maybe it’s the college student suddenly denied financial aid and put into massive debt because their identity has been stolen and used by 15 different people to get valid jobs, and then run up bills that will never be paid.

Arizona may have been ham handed when they started making new laws to handle illegal immigrants. Still, just by being in the country, these people are criminals. Try sneaking into any other country. You will find that you are not “given amnesty” or treated as a hero trying to seek asylum. You will be deported and treated like the criminal you are. I dare you to break into Russia, Japan, China, or Germany without a passport and visa. Unless you have more money than a major industry CEO, you will NOT like how you are treated.

Maybe we need to remember that our laws should be respected, especially by people who wish to live here!

It makes me ill to realize that we, the richest country in the world, can not care for our sick. We send millions of dollars in aid to other countries in both government and private money, but we fail the people who live on our own streets. Evil corporations move every job they can to India, Mexico, and China to avoid paying enough for people to live on. Other companies hire people who have entered the country so that they can work them like animals and treat them like slaves. Just the money that legal employees would feed into our system by paying taxes would pay for a large portion of any “public option”.

All the people who have no insurance become a burden on our emergency care systems and clinics as well. ER’s can’t turn you away for be uninsured… If the type 1 diabetic I mentioned dies, the government will foot the bill not only for his burial, but also for the continued care and feeding of the family he leaves behind. Over the next 17+ years that will add up…

I say we all watch for who votes down the “public Option” and we make sure NOT to vote for them when they run again. Remember, in the end, WE are the bosses. WE should fire politicians who are not doing the best job for us.