This is an uptake on sins of the father. There’s a reason why there are natural disasters, disease, disabilities, and even disobedient children  – the wrongs that have been done to nations of people come back to exact the price of doing those wrongs.

I hate to see any child suffering more than anything else with something like cancer or any disability or chronic illness, but I hate to say it: those children are paying for the suffering of other children. I had gone to some private schools with children whose parents were very well off, and I witnessed a lot of discord between some of those parents and their children – children coming to class drunk or high and being promiscuous. I admit that I didn’t even know I was poor until I was around this element. While they had lovely houses, they did not have homes. I was a scholarship kid in a not-great neighborhood, but my family was a basically happy one.

And when mud slides, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes destroy homes, it is retribution for the raping of fauna and resources, and for the disenfranchisement of people who had respected the land.

I recently watched a documentary about what really happened with the Titanic. It was a tragedy, but it was also a display of hubris that made that tragedy come about.

It continues to amaze me that there is an issue about borders. But looking back in history, California and the southwest of this country was part of Mexico. And to talk about having issue with anybody coming into “our” country when those that landed at Plymouth Rock were the worst invaders.

Laying claim after laying blame in order to secure people and resources and land seems to be the theme for imperialism. I guess one characteristic that is missing from them is the same one that all bullies lack: accountability. But karma has a way of reminding them that it exists, and there is always a payday.