Insights For Tulare

  From The National Archives Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Amendment II A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Amendment III No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amend...

If you do a Google search for the words, Truth and Reconciliation , you find sites from around the world with stories of people seeking justice. Those stories can be ugly, telling of violence stretching back in time, carrying the suffering of people long dead. When you read the words on a site it is just words. You do not see the dead body of a small girl clutching her doll in the doorway of her family's broken home. You do not hear her mother crying. But each of those heinous acts is present in the minds of the people who survived, in the mind of the girl's grieving mother the girl is still present. Through the process of Truth and Reconciliation that child is remembered and her death solemnized, mourned, her human value and dignity affirmed. Those who loved her find healing. To demand truth affirms our humanity. As people, each of us is born with the need for truth; that transparency that makes sense from the events of our lives. Each of us has that same ne...