London mourning . . .
In this age of grotesque state-sponsored criminality, let us try to remember –- everyday -- all the victims of terror. Not just the victims who look like you. Not just the victims who share a common genetic, cultural, political or religious heritage...
Sympathy rises quickly for the people of London – I’ve been there, ridden on the double-decker bus and Tube. My ancestors are from those fair isles and my native ‘homeland’ looks to Britain as its mother. We easily feel intensely passionate empathy not just for ME, but for all we identify with MY and MINE.
British security agencies say the attack was 'inevitable.' Why? They never mention that a huge area of West London (London-istan) is occupied by Islamic immigrants.Didn't PM Blair know that a lot of Londoners' MY/ME/MINE would be inflammed after he 'fixed intelligence' and pursued an Illegal Invasion of a sovereign Arab nation.
Didn't PM Blair know the day-in-day-out horror of terror and torture in Baghdad -- the formerly glorious capitol of the Arab Empire -- might provoke some Londoners to strike back at the glorious capitol of the Anglo Empire?
So if we see Britain as part of our self-defined ME/MY/MINE, we 'feel' some of their pain, anxiety and sorrow. But what about the pain of war-torn Iraq?
If unchecked, ME/MY/MINE leads to the insatiable greed that justifies violence, theft, rape, terror and war, along with self-destructive addictions. Let's start training to expand our narrow definitions of ME/MY/MINE. We need to develop a feeling of equanimity and solidarity with all the people of the world if we want to avoid self-destruction in this WMD age.
So -- what about the people of Iraq?They face this level of terror attack, and worse, every day.
The President of the United States told the press:
“I think about’ [the War I Started] ‘. . . every day.’
Do you?
Londoner Lennon was not being sappy!
"Love Is the Answer . . ."
. . . to Hatred.
posted by Nordron @ 9:34 PM
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