Given America's growing taste, tolerance, and lust for violence as a means to end violence, news ratings should soar. Did we learn nothing from the Oklahoma bombing. Did it not show us that the driving energies of fear and hatred manifest in death and death alone. The collective energy of hatred and violence that will be unleashed into the world on May 16 will only add to the energy of hatred and violence unleashed into the world by the bombing itself. No amount of our wishing, denying, or pretending will change that.
Violence begets violence.
It is a poisonous, deadly power no matter who wields it. It is an unalterable principle of the universe. There is a beautiful story about Catherine of Siena accompanying a young prisoner, Niccolo di Toldo to his execution. She was present at his execution to give him courage and to pray for him. It is said that Catherine held his head in her hands up to the moment he was beheaded.