[Buddha-l] Yes Alice--there is group karma

[Jo]

I posted this because it agrees with my views, mentioned now and then on
this list, that our country is the top in manufacturing and distributing
weapons of war and mass destruction.  We have been experiencing the
consequences for some time, and will continue to, until and unless we quit
our roles in the planetary slaughter. 
Joanna

http://www.newclearvision.com/2012/12/17/standing-strong/#more-2076    

December 17, 2012
Uniting Around the Finest Values of Human Life by Jennifer Browdy de
Hernandez

Just as people in places like the Maldives, Bangladesh and Pakistan may have
shook their heads at the cluelessness of Americans who suddenly woke up to
climate change when Sandy came to town, people living in hot spots of
violence around the world now have every right to be shaking their heads at
the collective American refusal to see and understand how, in the wake of
the Newtown massacre, we are much to blame for our own misery.
The U.S. is the largest arms manufacturer and exporter in the world. We have
by far the largest military. We are also by far the most heavily armed
civilian population in the world, with some 300 million guns circulating
among our population of about 300 million people. Americans, we need to
acknowledge that collectively, as a nation, we have been responsible for
hundreds, and probably thousands of deaths of children worldwide through the
weapons we sell abroad.
There is not a conflict in the world today that has not been fueled by
American weaponry. It is hypocritical to weep crocodile tears for the
slaughter of innocent children in a kindergarten in Connecticut but to
callously ignore the slaughter of innocent children by American drone fire
in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan' [add Yemen to the list. JK]
 
We need to start connecting the dots and realizing that the violence we mete
out to the world will come back to haunt us a
thousand-fold.............[more in article]