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Re: No longer but used to be gas out many moons ago ( I think)
Right, right. I SWEAR this is the last work I'm saying on this
subject at all. Then I'm gonna write my review of Friday's events.
Dancing on a volcano, Tndreamgal at aol_com said:
>>No kidding. It ain't our country, so let 'em fight it out on their own.
>>
>>People are always killing people, oppressing people, raping, pillaging, etc.
>>I just don't see why it's any of our business. It's not like we were invited.
>>
>>Chris the isolationist.>
>
>Chris I love you.
Aww, thanks!
>At least youre honest.
Just another of my many flaws.
>its easy for us to say "Lets go
>fight and conquer injustice, when we can't, we just can't. And I dont
>suppose, from a certain perspective, that it is our business. But we cant
>just eat the darkness, you know?
>As a woman, I dont really like hearing you
>call rape just more wartime schlock. I guess it is, but its also a
>beautiful, perhaps innocent and pure woman, maybe even little girl, being
>shocked into the reality of a hateful world, hungry for whatever sick
>pleasure it can grasp at the moment, even if that hunger demands the blood of
>other men so that a wicked dictator can gain power.
I think I intended my use of the term 'rape' to include more than just
the literal meaning.
>If it were just war, I'd
>say the US was interfering, and "we werent invited." But its oppression, and
>I feel oppressed enough here in the land of the free to understand that its
>our duty to fight that where its the worst.
Sometimes people gotta break their own chains, ya know? They'll be
stronger for it if they do.
And don't bring up the French in the US revolutionary war - they were
invited, and IIRC already at war with the Brits.
>And its also rule by terror, and
>here in the US where we fought to be free from a king who took from us simply
>because he was able, I abhor that too. And its prejudice, and here in the US
>where too many lives were used up early, and too many men never received the
>benefits of their own labor because they were of African rather than European
>descent, I hate prejudice. We can't kill injustice, but injustice is
>everybody's business.
I'm gonna have to quote the poet Neil Peart on this for my final word
on it:
'Territories'
"I see the Middle Kingdom between Heaven and Earth
Like the Chinese call the country of their birth
We all figure that our homes are set above
Other people than the ones we know and love
In every place with a name
They play the same territorial game
Hiding behind the lines
Sending up warning signs
The whole wide world
An endless universe
Yet we keep looking through
The eyeglass in reverse
Don't feed the people
But we feed the machines
Can't really feel
What international means
In different circles, we keep holding our ground
Indifferent circles, we keep spinning round and round
We see so many tribes -- overrun and undermined
While their invaders dream of lands they've left behind
Better people -- better food -- and better beer
Why move around the world when Eden was so near?
The bosses get talking so tough
And if that wasn't evil enough
We get the drunken and passionate pride
Of the citizens along for the ride
They shoot without shame
In the name of a piece of dirt
For a change of accent
Or the colour of your shirt
Better the pride that resides
In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides
When a colourful rag is unfurled"
And that's all I have to say about that.
>"People hear the words 'ethnic cleansing' and get all bent out of shape."
>-Chris Emery
LOL! It's amazing how funny that is in retrospect.
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