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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LONDON BOMBINGS
"Tony Blair, wheel is
turning...George Bush, wheel is turning...Queen Elizabeth your wheel is
turning...Fire fire fire inna London Town...Fire fire fire from
underground."
- Lee Perry from the song Baby Krishna on the album Panic In Babylon. First released in 2004. Dear Editor; I feel compelled to write a few thoughts on the London Bombings. After (again) being riveted to the TV for a couple of days near tears in horror and disbelief, some realizations have come to me.
This attack rips to shreds Mr. Bush and
his argument that we have to fight them over there so we won't have to
fight them here. Of course we really knew that anyway after September
11th 2001 and the Madrid train bombings.
Also I have to question Mr. Bush's
rhetoric that we are in Iraq to "liberate the people", when at the same
time he says we need Iraq as a front in the "War on Terror" to bring the
terrorists into one place and tie them up.
Which one is it Mr. Bush, liberate them,
or use their country as bait to lure terrorists into so we can fight
them there? It can't be both.
Regarding this ideological war or terror
(which will only get worse if we stay this course) we need to completely
rethink our dependence on Middle Eastern oil and turn to renewable fuel
sources like HEMP! With hemp fuel we could keep our Kentucky farmers
working, bring wealth into the USA, cleaner, safer and cheaper and do it
all with no drilling, spilling or KILLING!
I know it's going to take a total
change in the way our economy operates (i.e. also solar, hydro and wind
energy) but we can't afford to stay the course with this foolishness.
It's going to cost us millions of lives
to prop up the Saudis and the Emirs and Emirates of the Middle East just
to keep money in the pockets of the old school oil barons. It sickens me
to see them cloak this war in patriotism when the bottom line is their
wallets.
Look at Mr. Bush in Scotland again
turning away from the Kyoto Protocol. The economy he is talking about
Kyoto ruining is his oil-based one, not the economy of the
future. Glaciers around the world are melting as oil burns up the earth
and they JUST DON'T GET IT! All of their chickens are coming home
to roost and they are blind to the facts.
We have propped up too many dictators
and despots around the world to get resources on the cheap and now the
earth and its people are straining at the seams. Until we respect and
represent the poorest people of the world and the world itself with the
same efforts we show when we want empire, we will be doomed to fall as
all empires before us.
Sincerely;
David Asher
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