tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post2010210044508599210..comments2024-03-28T08:30:57.453-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: On getting used to mass murder and suicide bombersOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-49984053877975237802017-06-05T22:32:47.726-04:002017-06-05T22:32:47.726-04:00Lovely that May shook hands with the Saudi leaders...Lovely that May shook hands with the Saudi leaders when they are using U.S. weapons and intelligence to bomb the heck out of Yemen. Cholera is spreading there. Many people can't get food.<br /><br />Not to mention the lack of civil, human or women's rights inside Saudi Arabia. People go to jail for protesting, women can't do anything without a guardian, etc.<br /><br />I'd vote for Corbyn if I were in Britain. <br /><br />But when discussing massacres, I have to think of wars and what they're doing; 122 civilians in Mosul killced by an air strike, villagers killed in the dropping of the U.S.'s biggest nonnuclear bomb, etc., etc.<br /><br />I grieve for all the innocent civilians killed by this violence. And children? Whether in Manchester or in Yemen, Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, their lives matter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-52058585086583544602017-06-01T12:01:57.850-04:002017-06-01T12:01:57.850-04:00I don'l know where all this is headed, but one...I don'l know where all this is headed, but one thing I know for certain: massacres in some parts of the world gather far greater western news coverage than others. That strikes me as a subliminal (at best) recognition of attitudes in serious need of adjustment.Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-83524418760259789442017-06-01T05:07:32.820-04:002017-06-01T05:07:32.820-04:00I'm voting Corbyn too. I was in London at the...I'm voting Corbyn too. I was in London at the height of the IRA bombing campaign of the early 80's. I was, only mildly, touched by that carnage. Corbyn is being vilified for 'supporting the IRA' when in fact he signed document after document condemning their acts of violence BUT he did do a very brave thing, and get them round the table and started the negotiations that have led to 30 years of peace. Meanwhile Mrs May is being applauded for shaking hands with the Saudi leaders, the people we sell huge amounts of armaments to mmmm.<br />Todays poll shows he is now three points behind. We can hope.Caro Ramsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08499318515241879831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-66603537683571181392017-05-31T11:46:45.480-04:002017-05-31T11:46:45.480-04:00Bravo, Leye. I needed this! I started over a yea...Bravo, Leye. I needed this! I started over a year ago, to watch the data on terrorist attacks. I posted the flag of every nation that suffered an attack on my Facebook page, with the information about the number lost. I was doing this after the attack on Paris, not because the Parisian horror wasn't important to me, but because the outpouring over that attack was so much greater then the response to even greater losses in let's call them exotic places. In my mind it was important for me to leave that flag and the losses of those human beings up on my page for three days before I posted anything else. I stopped doing it because they were were so few days left for anything else. And like you, I had become numb, because I just couldn't keep on thinking about it anymore. <br /><br />These times are just soul sinking. It helps me a great deal when I hear another voice express this pain and this urgency for the human race to find a better way to be. Thank you. Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.com