Warmongers

“Is blood red, black, yellow or white? Everyone bleeds the same colour.”
-Anonymous
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Songs of the moment:

Sorry Sorry-Femi Kuti (Old School Afro Dub)
Dance Tonight-Lucy Pearl
This Woman’s Work-Maxwell
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Regarding the quote above, it is a sentiment I’ve been sharing for some time now. It occurred to me some months ago but I felt it from before then. And today I found a quote to put it simply. My version is this, the priority is not that we fight for equality because we are all equal. But my sentiment is mainly that we’re all the same. We, human beings, are all just the same. We have differences. And those differences are usally what it is, merely differences and we shouldn’t be jumpy in concluding those differences are wrong, bad or even weird. People have their differences and that is it. We should avoid this annoying subconscious obligation of have to label these differences, and subsequently publicize our judgments. There are of course good people and not so good people. Fundamentally, we’re all the same.
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I found the quote today at the War Crimes Conference where I spent about an hour in the remarkable Exhibition Room. That time in that horrible horrible but great room was some experience for me. It was very well done. How the organizers did it I mean. But the things you see in there are just, soo..I honestly have no words to describe. If I were to choose a word here, it might just mislead you. Maybe because, my ‘blood’ is predominantly of arab descent and the exhibition in there mainly focuses on the Iraqi, Palestinian, Japan and Vietname Wars/Conflicts. But I came extremely close to crying. And I still have that feeling now when I recall what I saw today. Maybe because of the Iraqi and Palestinian bit, I could relate more. But for that hour plus I was left speechless.
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I am glad that this Conference alongside the Exhibition has brought forward what I’ve been pointing out and what I’ve been trying to convey for a long time now. Hostility even at its low intensity point, is bad. Now imagine, just the psychological effects that a person gets after seeing a mere trivial bloody brawl in front of their eyes. An incident that begins and ends in maybe less than 3 minutes. Such things can have an adverse effect on a person. To the very least psychological.
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Can you imagine, to the very least, the psychological effects of war? Armed conflicts? It is something that can go one for weeks, months, years. Day and night! Don’t even have to imagine if it was you. Imagine if it was your sibling residing in a region within the said conflict. And you are at home, comfortably, half way round the world with a constant worried feel. Can you imagine what effect does it have on a person who walks across his town that is barren, all but debris? Hearing gun shots day and night, be it even miles away.
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Imagine if it was you. Seriously. How would you take it? If some stranger, regardless a foreigner or a local, were to grab your shirt and have a fist clenched by his side. How agitated would you feel? Now how would you feel if this stranger was in a uniform, pointing a gun to your face? To your 3 year old nephew?
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Because that kind of fcking sht does happen. Alot.
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I do not know if in most cases, the armed party did pull the trigger or not. But I hope that we can agree the pointing alone made him an animal. If you disagree, then I hope you’re an animal.
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I am not asking you to stop shopping for shoes and go do volunteer work. I am not asking you to be some peace loving ‘free spirit’ bum. I am merely asking you to reconsider your concept and perspective of mankind, and war. That is all I am asking.
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All warmongers are cunts. CUNTS!