How do we recognize true enemies of humanity?

They are invariably those who act in shameful ways and then rationalize excuses.

For example, enemies of the people consciously do things that ruin the planet and the lives of others.

They almost always are unprincipled hypocrites, corrupt to the core, and have souls like the flickering lights on the back porch.

They are immoral and unethical, meaning that their relationships with themselves, and others tend to be conflicted, distorted, suspicious, and based on fearful projections.

Children quickly recognize their unnaturalness, their lack of genuineness, their alienness,

and untrustworthiness.

There have always been inhumane enemies: criminals, psychologically sick people in power, those as self-absorbed as a stone or armored as an armadillo.

But today, they can’t hide. They are so brazen that they don’t try to hide or pretend.

To themselves, they are beyond penalty, retribution or karma, beyond accountability.

Many, if not most of such people suffer from a detachment of their feelings from their thoughts; and from the detachment of both feelings and thoughts from their hearts. And from the awareness of their conscience, consciousness, heart, imagination, nightmares and self-caused insomnia.

Somewhere within these people there is the knowledge that no just universe, no human soul or germ of spirit in soul, would be slow to rebalance these joyless beings, during their inquisitional passage at the end of life, or thereafter.

Raphael O’Suna
Haiku