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[title] => the innocence of victims
[time] => 2002-09-19 06:35:20
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[bodytext] => The Silence Of Victims
Now, let’s have a minute’s silence for the three thousand Afghans who perished under a hailstorm of freedom bombs when we hunted Bin Laded and failed. And a minute silence for those in Rwanda and Burundi who were hacked to death in a jungle clearings while we watched, hand in pockets. Not to forget those in Chile, Argentine and Honduras taken out at night and shot because they didn’t believe in the great capitalist society. Victims they are of state sponsored terror So many dead that minutes will stretch into hours of silence and that won’t do upsetting the wheels of industry. Abstract numbers erased by our collective memory, ‘cause they didn’t die under the full glare of daytime T.V, but we must never make the error of thinking that those lives lost are of lesser value than ours. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 172 [topic] => 43 [informant] => Jan_Oskar_Hansen [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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