A Little Good News? Please?

As I watched the morning news I couldn't believe what I was seeing, a man sleeping attacked by a man wielding a hammer. The man not only had brought a hammer with him, but his 6 year old son. The attacker did not know his victim, there was no motive other than greed and hate. And his son sat and watched, as did 10 other people on the subway, who did absolutely nothing. NOTHING. No one pulled an alarm, until the attacker had beaten the man and fled. No one screamed. No one tried to pull the man off and hold him down. No one did so much as call the police from a cell phone. Nothing. As the victim was being attacked another passenger did see the victims cell phone fall to the floor, and picked it up-pocketing it for himself.
Sometimes I wonder, what is wrong with our world? How did our society become to numb to hate, and accepting of prejudice and injustice? I can't help but sing this song in my head by Anne Murray.....

I rolled out this morning Kids had the mornin' news show on
Bryant Gumbel was talkin' 'bout the fighting in Lebanon
Some senator was squawkin' 'bout the bad economy
It's gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy
There's a local paper rolled up in a rubber band
One more sad story's one more than I can stand
Just once how I'd like to see the headline say "Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say", b
ecause Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today
I'll come home this evenin' I'll bet that the news will be the same
Somebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a plane
How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a county fair
And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care Whoa,
tell me Nobody was assassinated in the whole Third World today
And in the streets of Ireland, all the children had to do was play
And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA
We sure could use a little good news today
Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqUUQElQ8kM


Here is the News Story on the Attack:

Philly police video: Sleeping man attacked with hammer on subway
09/09/2008
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Police in Philadelphia have released surveillance camer video of a hammer-wielding man attacking another man dozing in a subway car.
The video shows the attacker boarding the subway just after midnight Thursday with a young child about 5 years old.Detective Kenneth Roach says it appears that the man kissed the child, then told him to sit down.After that, the man reached into a backpack he was carrying, pulled out a hammer and began attacking another man sitting nearby, dozing off while listening to a digital media player.The attack spilled onto the subway platform and lasted for several minutes.Roach says the victim escaped with relatively minor injuries from what appears to have been an unprovoked attack.No arrests have been made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBMRi_HK0Ok

We must be involved in our community. We must know our neighbors. We must intervene and protect the innocent. You know that movie, "Pay it Forward"? I urge the two people that read my blog, to pay it forward today. We should be a kinder society. I know that no one reading this would go and beat someone with a hammer. If each of us teaches our children right from wrong and goes even beyond that to make a daily attempt to reach out to fellow citizens in our society, some that have become bitter and numb, perhaps it is a start to change?
A start?
Today. Kindness. Pay it Forward.