Captain Australia’s Crime Fighting Journal, Entry#76
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve had the time to patrol. Captain Australia has been hiding under the surface while the day-to-day life of my secret identity has taken over. With a high-demand job in Corporate Australia, a pregnant wife and a toddler son, I have had to use all my energy just to keep up with my personal obligations.
But I cannot forget, or turn away from, my obligation to the Australian Public.
You need me, and I see daily reminders of that.
There is so much apathy and hate in the world today. You can see it in the daily news, the criminality, the violence. Worst of all are the suffering children. Babies left unwatched and neglected, or abandoned altogether, like this baby – her short life ending tragically hours after her birth due to a mother unable to cope with her and a society unable to help.
There are more subtle things that make me afraid for us all. Take the current election campaign, for example. Julia Gillard is a back-stabbing opportunist, and Tony Abbot is an unimaginative, bigoted little crook with barely two brain cells to rub together. Why are they candidates for our highest public office ? Because the behind the scenes power brokers want it that way. A hopeless two-party system where the devil you know & the devil you don’t are both basically the same devil.
I talk to people, young and old, wealthy & homeless about who and what inspires them, and the one answer I absolutely never hear is “politicians”. The thing that worries me is : what does this say about our society ? What does this say about who we have become and where we are going, that we can’t trust our leaders, and we (collectively) don’t care enough to make radical change ?
I should be out there every night. Watchful. Waiting. I should be out there trying to spread Goodness, and fight this cancer of Evil that is infecting our lives and our society.
My hope is that people will see what I’m doing, be inspired by it, and take action themselves. Then this will cause a ripple effect : people will understand that you have to put your own personal safety aside and selflessly commit yourself to the betterment of humanity.
I have to do better.
This weekend, I will patrol. Even if I have absolutely no energy, I will find it somewhere. I will phone my videographer tomorrow, hopefully he will be willing to come on patrol with me, so that I can share the experience with you, and document any events that take place.
