A Small Country Pleads To Our Weakest Beacon of Democracy

This is the country of Tuvalu:



Up until today, I have never heard of the country of Tuvalu. And I have never heard of a man named Ian Fry.

Today, as obnoxious Senators continue to make (for lack of a better word) a--holes of themselves, Mr. Fry took to the podium in Copenhagen with his country's hazardous condition weighting most in his heart. And with that deep lying sentiment of pain combined with the unbridled spirit of hope. Mr. Fry placed the future existence of his nation, only 31 years after declaring its independence from Great Britain, in the hands of our embarrassing "cooling center of democracy."

Soul hitting is the words uttered out of the mouth today from Mr. Fry:

The entire video is worth your time, but here are the key words if you cannot here what Fry uttered. It's that deep:

It appears that we are waiting for some senators in the U.S. Congress to conclude before we can consider this issue properly. It is an irony of the modern world that the fate of the world is being determined by some senators in the U.S. Congress.

It truly is a modern irony that the Senate, where doing the right thing is doing the wrong one thing, is looked at as the last resort.

This request by this man for this South Pacific state is not only a plea for Tuvalu, but also the rest of the diminutive nations looking for the world's powers to tackle this momentous issue head on, where that is the only thing that will suffice. At the head of those powers begrudgingly is a place that has people like James Inhofe and the rest of his party lunatics, inclined and comfortable to used the word "hoax" in sheer comical fashion to describe the reality of our times.

Only, there is nothing comical about it.

Up until today, I had no clue of who James Fry was, and no clue of the land from which he represents. There will be no other day where that happens for the rest of my life.