Kevin Williams

Governments and Peoples

I truly and wholly believe that people are good. People are nice, peaceful and loving. The German people are wonderful. The Japanese people are wonderful. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Cuba, etc. Even North Korea. Even the U.S.! Pick any conflict, any country with poor leadership (past or present) and you will find a fabulous nation of hard-working and family-oriented people.

But that’s not what we see from the outside. We see what the government does, which is almost never good. I don’t trust governments, and I don’t like governments. Even the U.S., which it seems the whole world turns to in times of need like a big brother, has had shameful & embarrassing leadership the past 8 years. No country is immune to misrepresentation.

I don’t believe that evil governments represent the people they claim to represent. The people in Iran want a better government. The people in the U.S. want a better government. We are more common than we are opposite. I don’t hate any nationality or race of people.

Think before you slander a group of people. The people of Iran, Iraq, N. Korea or Sudan are not necessarily like the government that we see from the outside. Don’t hate the people - governments, on the other hand, should be fair targets for criticism. They need to know how to represent their people, and they should listen to the outcry of their friends and neighbors. It’s sad that so many governments fail to do that, and fail to care.