And the little boy, Aylan Kurdi. Has been gone two years his broken body washed up on a beach. Do they really think that that paremts risk their chidren on the sea, in aboat that is fragile and vulnerable if the land was safer? Somewhere someone will be asking who Atlanta Kurdhi is?
and there are still those who complain of seeing his picture.. and those who go on and on about economic migrants. Do they look at their own children and wonder what if ? If the bombs came to Port Talbot, Portsmouth or Poole ?I hope because deep . deep down we know we think of our child at 3, the children of our friends and neighbours. the children we are seeing in the super marketIs this like eating meat everyday but refuse to see the pictures of the slaughter houses, the starving thousands in the third world, the fact that 1% dominate us all, that land, property and control rest here ?.
We deny that our elites sell arms, prop up dictators, and deny climate change. We blame the poor, we see the scrounger everywhere, we divide those who have so much in common and we are divided and conquered..what does it take to wake us up? Ur I was only doing my job I hear the escuses ring out......
On Port Talbot Debate and Argue the unusual unthinking cries are heard. In response to North Korea the cries come to nuke them, plunge the world into war, create a new Vietnam at the cost of 250,000 American lives and the lives of millions of Koreans. Where do you suppose my fine friends did the arms come from?, who made them? who exported them? Donald Trump's thin skin and large ego is far more dangerous than that of the brutality of North Korean leader Kim Jon Un. Trump cannot separate his ego from his Presidency and its obvious to all. I suspect that Kim Jon Un can do the separation. You do not survive in a society like North Korea if you cant.
On Port talbvot Debate and Argue I watched a thread develop on the premise that there was too much homosexuality in the media. It did not strike the originator of the post of the historical treatment of gay people, it did not strike him that “too much” said more about him than the subject itself. It did not strike him that people have said the same about womens rights, trade union rights, its been the same whenever liberation rears its head. When anyone cannot see the tea k of history, with it s struggles and liberations , ask ignorant and silly questions and claims they spit on the liberators...when you can't serpentine and in equality because you are not white, or middle class or straight you are not thinking it through. When people say “too much” in this way it reveals their own prejudice, conditioning and assumptions. It reveals that they are to quote Pink Flotd “Comfortably Numb” they can see themselves in the shoes of another and are too lazy to try.....
Hello,
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
I have become comfortably numb
O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on, it's time to go.
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
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