Purrs 4 Peace Week 12 - Hate Speech isn’t Free

“Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself” - Richard Nixon

In the U.S. it seems that more and more hate speech is masquerading as free speech. On radio, on television, on the internet, the pundits and commentators are plying their trade by employing fear mongering. They are demonizing whole groups of people and instructing their audiences in why that group and its members are evil, destroying america, or otherwise dangerous to the listener. These opportunists MUST know that their “words” are going to hurt people, because unlike the chant children use - sticks and stones may break my bones - words can inspire and even drive people to hurt other people. Free speech has a dangerous price when it’s hate speech. The price paid in the lives of the people killed and injured by the violence it inspires. It has to stop. Free speech should be responsible speech....reasoned debate over genuine political issues and not fomenting violence against another merely because of the color of the victim’s skin, their religious affiliation, their political party or their sexual preference. Come on people. Humans can be better than this.

If you or your humans are tuned into a television program, listening to the radio or reading a blog and the message is you that you should fear and hate some group and blame them for your problems or the problems of your country then STOP....turn it off, click to something else. Turn away from fear mongering, turn away from hate and prejudice. These groups the commentators want you to hate and the people in those groups feel pain. They have families, they have lives, they strive....they are like us....they ARE us.....Let’s stop hating ourselves and by extension others.

Let’s begin today. Today we purr for compassion, we purr for tolerance, we purr for empathy, we purr for love, we purr for peace.

8:59 a.m. Get ready to Purrrrrrrr.

SET.

9:00 a.m.

Confucius Cat say: GO!

Purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr,

purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrinnnnnnnggggggg. Purrrrr,purrrrrr.....Imagine your purrs as a glowing red power inside you.... the fiery power of love, compassion and tolerance.

Purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, See that power radiating from you and into others, encompassing all humanity and burning away hate, evil, intolerance, prejudice.

Purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr,

Purring.... Imagine every human spirit filled only with a love for others, with tolerance, with compassion, empathy and peace.

Purrrrrr.purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr.. Imagine the headline: Hate crime disappears virtually overnight. Authorities amazed.

Purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr,

Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......