Thursday, January 25, 2007
Our Humanity
- What Happened To It?
I found this earlier today. It left me such a disgusting after-taste, which I'm sure you'll all feel after finishing the read. Except for the initial shock, horror and total disgust, it brought to mind one (rhetoric) question: do we have the right to call ourselves human?
We accept such happenings everyday, nay, we encourage them via our open markets daylight robbery, wars, mayhem, you name it. We deplore and cry the Muslim women veiling, yet encourage their Iraqi daughters to sell their bodies for 50 Syrian pounds. Yes, this is the price of an Iraqi 15 years old in the local Gulf States infested brothels. That's 1 US Dollar, by the way. Cheap, yes, compared to a 6 years Cambodgian put to serve some mid-aged European or Arab freak.
But then again, money is way better invested into war. A Cambodgian child is sold into prostitution for 10$ to 100$. How many can be saved with 1.2 Trillion dollars?
It's very sad to see that people in a democracy we are supposedly are building are being exploited down to their last posession - their own personal self-worth.
I'm not saying that war is a good investment at all. I'm only pointing out that the so-called war in terror is big money for a select few to the tune of 1.2 Trillion dollars.
The problem is really that the military-industrial complex seems to depend on the perma-war (the war on terror) in order to continue to operate. Perhaps rather than creating war, the ilitary-industrial complex needs to be re-vectored onto other projects that can actually help people rather than leading people into poverty. Perhaps companies that are used to building high-tech composite wings for airplanes could be making windmill blades. Instead of building massive secret prisons and airforce bases, they could be pouring foundations for the windmills. Instead of building missile bodies, a missile contractor could be building the towers for windmills. Instead of building factories that produce bombs, companies could be producing factories that make alcohol from agriculural waste. etc.
HiTek
I know what you mean and I agree totally to what you say regarding war, and this is what I mean: just like you pointed out earlier, until now war in Iraq alone costed some unbelievable amount of money. This money would have freed at least half of Africa from hunger and tyrany. Instead, Ethiopia was encouraged to invade Somalia.
