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Edition no. 79 June 1, 2011 |
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Afterthoughts |
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. |
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Master of madness and ethnic cleansing faces trial at The Hague |
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The recent capture of Ratko Mladic along with the death of Usama bin Laden hopefully signals to the world a growing intolerance for mass murder and crimes against humanity. The pain suffered by Muslims in Europe during the reign of Balkan butchers Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic, Arkan, and Ratko Mladic should be enough to force the world to understand why Muslims in recent times—are so angry. Do people in the West really understand their loss? Like the Jews who passed the genocide in World War II, where is the respect for human dignity? What are we as a species? Divided by religion, why can we not find common ground for respect, peace and human dignity? There are many people in the world who respect Ratko Mladic, Arkan, and Usama bin Laden as heroes. But in reality, they are people who killed innocents for nothing but hate. Not a military target, but simply killed people who found themselves unknowingly at the end of a madman’s gun or hijacked airplane. A legacy carried forward from Adolf Hitler’s Second World War; a greater glory envisioned in the mind of a sick individual who had no sense of peace or human dignity, only revenge and hatred, Christian, Muslim or Jew. The pain suffered by those in the former Yugoslavia to those in New York from 1992 to September 11, 2001 and beyond, is something most people living in the world today do not clearly understand, unless your family was directly affected. It is the pain of loss, the loss of a loved one, of life without closure, because no one can return a loved one to you. Death is final— absolute. Furthermore, the guilty perpetrators, with all compounding evidence, witnesses and DNA, are still given rights and respect in our courts. Yes, the same human rights and respect they neglected to give their victims, who were brutally murdered by their hand or by command—is offered as a right. There is no truth or justice in all of this. Anger is a strong emotion, it is something that rises quickly and escapes the higher mind. Anger is an emotion that responds immediately, a reaction, a safety mechanism that in most cases refuses reason. Most anger in the world is justified, because it is a response to a greater act of aggression. Something we have all felt at one time or another in our life, because of bullying or a violent parent. Murdering bastards like Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic, Arkan, Usama bin Laden—like Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot to name a few, are not our friends or leaders. They are people who would exploit us and our democratic system for their own gains, as well as profiting their friends. These mass murderers have scarred the world for generations to come and have caused divisions and cleavages amongst nations and religions that may last for decades. Their misguided beliefs continue to breed hate and war in the world. Until we see their hate as an enemy to all humanity, we will never find peace of mind or peace on this earth in our time. As a student of philosophy, I have no faith in an eternal god or any other deity, other than my own rational belief in reason and experience, better known in philosophical terms as a priori or a posteriori knowledge. I am an infidel who does not drown his daily life in religious dogma. My best advice to the people of the world who are seeking revenge in such a circumstance on behalf of criminals like Mladic and bin Laden—is to find a quiet peace. In simple words, stop the hate, lay down you guns, close your mouths, open your eyes, and be rid of your life of anger and vengeance. |
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By Thomas Terrio |
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All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. |
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Racial hate and religious dogma must end |
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