Improve Communication and Vote

Improve Communication and VoteTo The Editor:
What do you hate? I hate senseless violence. Dr. Ben Carson, in his book America the Beautiful, said he hated poverty. He had “an up-close and personal view of poverty.” He worked his way out of poverty as a famous neurosurgeon.
Today in the mail I received another charity appeal. This time it was for PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Since I have a pet parakeet that I like to hear chirp happily, I was sensitive to the quote that PETA used in their advertisement. It was by Mahatma Gandhi. He said, “I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
I don’t want anyone to hurt my pet any more than I want to see the crimes of gun violence in America. Nor do I want to see the senseless killing of the children in Syria’s chemical warfare.
So how do we protect the helpless? Is it a military and police mobilization that is to be funded? While I have benefitted from both the military and police, I would rather see more communication in churches, synagogues and mosques, schools, the press, and workplaces.
“Knowledge, not violence, should be the international currency of power.” This is a quote from the Working Group on Girls as reported in Ms. Magazine, spring of this year.
Ninety three years ago, women won the right to vote as the Herald reported. Women’s Equality Day passed quietly on Mon., Aug. 26. Keep voting America. Keep reading, keep using your words. CARA–the Coalition against Rape and Abuse is in Cape May County to clean-up our local violence among other organizations.
KARLA KIEFER
Cape May