The division of nation everywhere, even among friends.
The lovely daughter of a friend of mine invited me to her forum on Delphi-forums during the October 2001 terror crisis to discuss politics. She knows that I'm politically inclined as she is - we all wanted answers after 9/11 – so I went willingly.
Her family lost a kin friend in one of the twin towers. Her sister lost one of her business-partners on the plane in Philadelphia. At the time, seven years prior she lost one her sisters to Leukemia, prior to this she lost her brother to a car accident, and a father died right after from grief when she was still a teen.
I tried to support her in all of her grievances. I tried to make her laugh with silly odd-topics. Good hearted as she is she accepted me like one of her family members as we discussed through the internet. With all of these, she still has a sense of humour I read it in her poetry and responses in her forum and now here as she moved to these blogs. I’m always invited to her family events but sadly I couldn’t make it to a lot of them. I have a full time job and it’s not easy to leave.
Time has passed by and amazingly enough we're still around asking the same questions about the political issues and especially the dreaded terrors, nothing has been solved since 9/11.
Conversely groups of NeoCon fans attacked the forum to belittle her, and mock her with racist slurs so many times, she stopped posting! She writes beautifully with a lot of feelings. Some even say she ought to write romance novels because every subject she touches, receives a touch of her personal life that turns into love.
A couple of fundamentalist Christians also called her 'dirty Jew' - 'Islamist' - 'Communist' and 'whore' so many times it only brought back all the things I've read about the USA's racism they had in the fifties - all the disgusting stuff I read about in the books. She is a very beautiful and a very nice European living in Canada with a heart. She is the proud wife of an engineer, a mother of four, (two step-girls and two toddlers of her own.) She is a Yoga advocate, and a skier. Very far off to be any of those names they gave her.
Bear in mind what terrorism is. It is the systematic use of terror as a means of coercion and this is what the warlords have done. Keep in mind how deviously they used to tell us how bad the Soviets were? Gulags in Siberia etc? We got over 40 years of that kind of propaganda. Now they're doing it themselves. "Freedom and democracy" they call it. America advocates Human Rights to the world, at the same time as holding prisoners without trial in Quantanamo bay. What type of Human rights is this? Quite bewildering!
MP Tony Blair's elite and the Bush administration destroyed not only innocent human beings by constantly bombing them but also create divisions among nations to achieve their goal is rather wicked. I believe someone has to act soon to punish them for the crimes against humanity at the War crime tribunal in Hague… and for dividing nations into so much hatred all over the world. Do I see an end to it? Hardly!!!
Diana
Aurrora
Very true, beside most of the acquaintance are scare to talk, they don't know how to handle the issues since a lot haven't dug up history deep enough to know what went on previously to discuss the current wars, everything is interlaced.
For example if you haven’t read about WWI and WWII – or some of the wars in Asia. Some of the wars in the Middle East, during the 70s it’s impossible to follow the current wars… we can’t rely on the ridiculous glorifying wars that wore the proud griffin we’ve seen in movies.
Aurrora