When Trust Is Lost, By Roger Behra

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When Trust Is Lost

By

Roger Behra

Everyday now something is revealed in the various media that greatly lessens trust and faith in human beings. The evil behavior being revealed seems to be not only more frequent but more varied and repulsive. Many of the people involved are people in trusted positions and occupations that require the utmost trust and faith in the American culture. During the past twenty-five years especially the American culture has steadily declined to an alarming level because of the frequency and variation in the types of crime. There seems to be no depth to America’s cultural decline.

Along with ordinary citizens more highly trusted citizens are being exposed as participants in evil activities that are quite reprehensible. The trusted citizens include politicians, Catholic priest, Protestant ministers, public school teachers, and police officers to name a few types. It is so sad deplorable to witness many educated and trusted individuals ruin their careers, their lives, and drag America’s culture to low depths while they do so. It is bad enough when ordinary citizens do so.

In the recent past two state governors had to resign in political and personal disgrace because of behavior unbecoming of their office. Almost daily in the print media, on radio, and during television broadcast Catholic priest in America and other parts of the world are being accused of inappropriate behavior and sexual contact with teenage boys and girls. Teacher-student sex in more and more common and in the news often. Police officers are using their position and opportunity to take advantage of women drivers and get involved in sexual activities, and in some cases rape at the point of a gun.

On Saturday, April 3, 2010, an Orange County police was involved in a carjacking, kid napping, and the brutal rape of a restaurant waitress at the point of a gun. His officer friend witnessed the carjacking and later came to pick up the officer after the rape. The officer who did the rape was connected to it, because in haste to leave the women’s car with his officer friend he left his gun in the woman´s car. Two days later both officers were arrested and are now charged with multiple offenses. The 30-year officers have ruined their careers and lives.

In New Jersey several ordinary citizens were involved in a despicable crime involving the gang rape of a 7-year-old girl while the girl’s 15-year-old sister watched and took money fort it. A 20-year-old man has already been arrested.

When upright people lose trust and faith in those of positions of trust and faith, it becomes a very disheartening situation for the people and the culture. That is happening very frequently throughout American culture nowadays. The down hill slide has reached alarming depths with no end in view.

R. B.
4-10-10