Sinister: are you calling mr simpson a liar?no but have pics of him with his pants on fire

[staralful -]

Dear all
I hope this finds you in fine fettle- I am in fine form finally-even though 
the ould leaving cert is getting on top of me I feel fine and dandy.
I really can’t believe four weeks have passed since the events in New York 
but with that time I have become more reflective on the whole thing. 5000 
people at once is a lot of people but in the last month at least that number 
have died of hunger in the world and other unavoidable situations.  The 
other day I was reading that since 1916 (since the country I live in was 
officially recognized) at least that number again have been killed as a 
result of the trouble in and around the North and the sectarian divide there 
but over time and especially since the late 60’s the people here have grown 
used to hearing about pipe bombs and car bombs going off and murders and 
punishment beatings…so much so that it has grown a part of life here and as 
horrible as it is people really ignore these items that appear 3rd or 4th in 
the line up in the news if that. People have grown immune to the whole thing 
and nothing really shocks people here that much when they hear about things. 
Nothing that is up until 4 weeks ago .On the Friday after the planes went 
into the buildings Ireland had an official day of mourning meaning that all 
the shops and schools and banks shut. It felt like Christmas in a weird way 
as the country was suspended in a state of Limbo.  The minutes silence was 
supposed to be observed but no one I knew did it.  The government here said 
they stood in solidarity with the US  but the impression that I have I got 
from speaking to people around that I know. Was there a minutes silence when 
the gulf war was on or when 5000 people died cos of hunger.Like arse there 
was.People here think that the chickens have come home to roost.
The person that supposedly masterminded the attack was about 15 years ago 
funded by the cia to aid the Mulaajah in the fight against the Russians and 
was trained. On top of that the tunnels and camps where he resides were 
built with assistence from the states. But it really is a case of the right 
hand doing one thing and the left hand doing something behind the back 
hoping that the right won’t realise.  The US’s “ethical foreign policy” of 
bombing and punishing the people of Iraq for their leaders stupidity (in the 
gulf war 100,000 Iraqi’s were killed but who cares about that when Americans 
were) This leader was again funded by the US. Countless others have been 
killed by the sanctions being placed on that country. The US tried to have 
it all ways and the events really have showed that you can’t both punish and 
reward a people because you are the “most advanced” part of civilisation.
So it really is a case of the chickens coming home to roost and although the 
events in New York were dreadful and a lot of people were missing people 
just think for a second about the families at the moment who apart from the 
sure conflict in Afghanistan are losing family members to hunger or the 
100’s of thousands of people going with less food because of sanctions 
placed on their country while the country placing the sanctions also take 
the oil supplies which could make that country better off.  Even for a 
second think about the 28 people that have died in the time that it has 
taken me to write this sentence . The message is a lot of people are 
suffering apart from Americans who are a lot of them realising that for the 
first time-not everyone likes them. (one of the reports I read had the 
question…”why are they doing this to a country universally loved and 
worshiped”) I hope I haven’t offended anyone.


********staralful********


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