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ayoubA city of beauty marred by violence.
Rioting is not the way forward, no violent form of protest is, because it attracts those people who are in it for the violence and not the cause.
The two kids who supposedly ran from the police into an electricity sub station were old enough to understand the dangers of running into that place, and if they were running from police out of fear of getting a beating, the best place to go would have been somewhere public, where there would be witnesses if there was to be any poor treatment, running into danger can too easily be interpreted as being up to no good.
The police, however, deny the kids, (17 and 15) were being chased.
Why is violence seen as the only way to express anger? I'm tired of saying these things, but maybe, just maybe, if I keep saying them, someone else might start saying them, and with a little luck, the voices for peaceful lives will drown out the noise of chaos...
It's a dream I have.
Some would say "wishful thinking", but I'm enough of a cynic to see their point of view too.
Rioting is not the way forward, no violent form of protest is, because it attracts those people who are in it for the violence and not the cause.
The two kids who supposedly ran from the police into an electricity sub station were old enough to understand the dangers of running into that place, and if they were running from police out of fear of getting a beating, the best place to go would have been somewhere public, where there would be witnesses if there was to be any poor treatment, running into danger can too easily be interpreted as being up to no good.
The police, however, deny the kids, (17 and 15) were being chased.
Why is violence seen as the only way to express anger? I'm tired of saying these things, but maybe, just maybe, if I keep saying them, someone else might start saying them, and with a little luck, the voices for peaceful lives will drown out the noise of chaos...
It's a dream I have.
Some would say "wishful thinking", but I'm enough of a cynic to see their point of view too.
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Date: 2005-11-02 07:29 pm (UTC)Someone else may start saying things too, but then a third person with a gun or a baseball bat can say, "Shut the fuck up", and people will. It's inevitable that someone will have one, and you almost have to be polite to someone holding an axe.
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Date: 2005-11-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-02 07:35 pm (UTC)WAR, n.
A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end -- that change is the one immutable and eternal law -- but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome" -- when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu -- that he
heard from afar
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.
BATTLE, n.
A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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Date: 2005-11-02 07:45 pm (UTC)It's because I have to believe the human race is better than this, somewhere...
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Date: 2005-11-02 07:50 pm (UTC)Even squirrels will fight over a nut.