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A-Z Challenge: ‘S’ is for Saboteurs and Sabotage

© 2013  by Raymond Alexander Kukkee [caption id="attachment_1336" align="aligncenter" width="800"]Spy and Saboteur? Spy or Saboteur?     Deadly Black Widow[/caption]  On any ordinary day, any ordinary week,  have you ever wondered why things have gone inexplicably wrong? What happened?   Did you open both eyes and look around?   Apply logic first.   Maybe Murphy did it. Lady Luck ran out screaming, leaving you with the luck of the draw. Circumstance. The challenge may be to  recognize the fact that  S can be for saboteurs and sabotage. Maybe.  Perhaps you are the victim of a spy, or genuine sabotage,  destructive action taken against others  by saboteurs of any description;  crabby neighbours, political enemies,  or misguided, arrogant control freaks individuals with a lack of people-handling skills.   Perhaps they are highly-trained mercenaries or everyday ordinary  sex-starved people with low self-esteem, jealousy,  anger issues. Wiley planners.  How about an unresolved guilt complex? Let's throw that in.  Include less than stellar ethics, too, and you may be dealing with saboteurs. 

Who are Saboteurs?

Those who deviously pretend innocence, but are enabled  by circumstance and character to arbitrarily choose sabotage;  evil instead of good. What are the people who conduct sabotage?  In the extreme contemporary view, they might be considered mindless terrorists or plain, ordinary, common people of any description.   Often and erroneously stereotyped as foreigners  and /or religious lunatics,  an individual saboteur may indeed  be slightly crazy, mentally unbalanced,  unhappy, terribly insecure.  He or she may feel alienated, ineffective and helpless with the status quo. Madmen do come self-made, or  in pairs, factions, and sleeper cells too, brainwashed every one.   They may imagine themselves to be victims of society or purveyors of their own utopian beliefs, however extreme. No matter, their own inadequacies turn and fester to ultimate destruction. Human beings are capable of doing anything possible to hurt, destroy or impede the lives, dreams of  others--even those close to them..  Saboteurs purposefully destroy as much as possible, minimize the successes, happiness and well-being of others and society itself,  believing it enhances their own ego, cause,  power, and image.  Viciously and habitually abusing  their authority from  whatever position they may hold in life, they may strike out unexpectedly with bombs,  betrayal, malice and forethought.  Do you know people like this? They may be 'changed' somehow, a fact that is often recognized after-the-fact. Individuals so inclined will do anything to wreak vengeance upon the innocent at all cost, even murder or mayhem, to effect their program at will.   Any place, person,  project, establishment, company,  program, social construct or country may be arbitrary targets.  Most interestingly, individuals or groups of people working toward the end goal of sabotage,  a hidden agenda-- tend to ensure anything they do is beneficial to themselves, seeking power,  fame, fortune, or self-entitlement. Where are these people?  Everywhere.  The world of personal, business, political and international sabotage is shrouded in darkness. Devious minds crawl out of secular shadows, old industrial buildings, the latest spy movies from Hollywood. Some boldly take the elevator to the 37th floor of a high-end condo if they they do not already  live in the cottage behind the white picket fence across the street from you.   Really?  No kidding. Who are these people, you ask?  Sometimes it's better not to ask.

It can be anyone. Anywhere. That's why S is for Saboteurs and Sabotage.

History can be changed in a minute by people you may or may not know.  People with issues considered unresolvable--in their own minds. Humanity weeps a true state of paranoia, boots  filled with vitriolic fear, self-doubt and propaganda.  In our society, saboteurs and sabotage can grievously affect anyone. Here at IncomingBytes we prefer to heed good advice.   Let us equally look for the good in people.  Do something constructive for the better.      Should I just go back to "R & R."?    Hmm....I could become a rookie recluse.  Eat beans from a can. Not  too likely. I'm bold and fearless.  I'm out there in the sunlight.  Highly recommended.  Try it. It works.   Is that Incoming I hear? Photo credit: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. +
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A-Z Challenge: R is for Rest and Relaxation

©  2013 by Raymond Alexander Kukkee [caption id="attachment_1323" align="aligncenter" width="584"]R & R with Gardening R & R with Gardening[/caption] R is for Rest and Relaxation, and you guessed it, that would be  R&R for the uninitiated, a rest and change for the experienced,  a blessing for the overworked and tired. Do you plan specifically to take time off, drop the tools whether they be saw and hammer, pick and shovel, or pen and ink? We need  R&R on a regular basis.  All of us. Even the muse.    Change the venue, shut down the mind and the computer.  Take time off to do something refreshing, exciting, different?  Use a semicolon instead of a comma.  Try it.  Dare the muse to amuse. Challenge the status quo. Get some rest and relaxation. That's what I'm attempting today Enjoying some R&R.  No work, no worries, no trying to convince editors they are perfect at times .   No deadlines.  No thinking about Boston, bombing, death and mayhem,  and the inadequate --emotionally flawed angry, disenfranchised, desperate foreigners who see no option to power and greed other than brutal violence.  No worries about lack of national  resourcefulness, official responses, --so murderous, canned, inadequate, and arrogant. So predictable. Some of these people could use some serious rest and relaxation and then brain training. Perhaps try being human instead of being so mindlessly 'American' all the time. Try it, you  might like it too. As for me, no worries.  I'm Canadian.  I know where Canada is. I know the difference between Chechnya and Czech.   I spell 'neighbour'  and 'colour' with a 'u"  and I'm proud of it.   That's all.     We've earned some R & R.  Everyone has.  That's why R is for Rest and Relaxation   Is that Incoming I hear?  
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