Followers

Thursday 2 June 2011

Salutations to a few good men

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing'
Edmund Burke

I came across this quote a few weeks back whilst watching a Tv series 'Cold Case'.Perhaps it was the moving storyline of lives ruined,the appropriateness of the quote in its entirety to the events that unraveled on my screen or simply the lucidity of its content, i became engulfed by soberness.

Since the words of Mr Burke now resides in me,speaking to me ever so often that if i close my eyes,turn a blind eye,look the other way....things can go wrong and so it has in the past when you and i hid in the background and thought 'its not my business'. I sat back and reflected over these occasions and wondered what if! Then i began to evaluate recent political happening in my milieu and was prompted to extol the actions of a few good men,working hard to triumph in a sea of evil