Halloween story

I was asked to tell a story to our local Peace and Justice group tonight. It was suppost to combine Halloween while telling about the peace rallies that I have attended. I thought you might enjoy reading it.

Welcome to the upside down world where down is up and backward is forward. Once upon a time there was a country, let’s call it ASU. ASU was a perfectly nice country that had caring people. But in this backward world, some people got control of ASU and the rulers thought everyone in the world should be just like them. These ASU rulers, we will call con-neos, didn’t care if other countries were still struggling to make things the way THEY wanted it to be. The con-neos thought that all countries should be just like ASU. If other countries of the world had things the con-neos wanted, the con-neos decided they would call those country the “bad guys”. The con-neos really, really wanted lotion. They wanted to control the world supply of lotion but other countries had lotion and these counties didn’t want to give it to ASU. Any country that had lotion would be watched very closely by the con-neos.

What is very sad is the people in ASU could get scared very easily. The con-neos knew this so they decided that all they would have to do is wait until something bad happened. So when something bad did happen, the con-neos could scare the ASU people to do what they wanted. The ruler’s didn’t care who did the bad thing in the first place. The con-neos decided to blame the bad thing on a country that had lotion. The rulers didn’t want to pick the country that did the bad thing because that country didn’t have any lotion. The rulers didn’t want to pick a strong country that had lotion because they might not win the fight. So they decided to pick a country they thought they could beat up and had lots of lotion. The ASU people were so sad about the bad thing that they didn’t even stop their rulers.

Some people from ASU DID understand what was happening. They were sad about the bad thing but they were smart and saw that ASU might be doing something wrong. We will call these people nick-peacers. The con-neos did not like the nick-peacers getting in their way of starting a fight with the lotion country. They called the nick-peacers unpatriotic. They said that the nick-peacers didn’t like the ASU. The con-neos had friends that ran the television shows. So these shows would make fun of the nick-peacers or worse yet not even show on television what the nick-peacers were doing or saying.

In a small village called Fordrock, in the state of Nois-ill, there were some smart nick-peacers. These smart people had rallies, wrote letters and shouted about how wrong it was to beat up on another country. These nick-peacers knew that many people could get hurt including their own children during the fight. But even the rulers in Fordrock believed the con-neos. They told the people of Fordrock that we must stop the “bad guys.” Meanwhile the nick-peacers worked very hard to get new rulers but sadly most the people of Fordrock and ASU were so afraid that they did not listen to the smart nick-peacers.

The nick-peacers tried to tell the people the truth but newspapers and television people ignored their rallies and letters. Meanwhile more and more sons and daughters of the ASU kept getting hurt in the big fight with the lotion country. The nick-peacers met with the rulers of Fordrock. They even talked with the national leader Lowmanz who was friends with the con-neos but no one listened. The nick-peacers kept meeting together, protesting and talking to officials and writing letters. Many nick-peacers traveled all the way to the ASU capitol to protest the big fight. Meanwhile more and more sons and daughters kept getting hurt.

Finally after 2,000 sons and daughters were hurt very badly the ASU people started to wake up. The nick-peacers, because they were peaceful, brought flowers and cards to Lowmanz office to tell him that they wanted the fight to end. The next day Lowmanz came out in the newspaper and stated that the fight was a bad thing and that it should end soon.

The nick-peacers were very happy that people were starting to see that the fight was bad.

I am sorry that I cannot tell the end of this backward story. We will have to get together next Halloween to see what happens.

THE END

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