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| leaving XangaI have finally taken the decision to leave Xanga, and set up a new blog at blogger
I'm finding Xanga increasingly cluttered with stuff, and the site is loading really slowly. also it is a shame that I cannot use the post by email feature.
I imagine that other people are still loving xanga, it's just my fondness of simplicity that leads me to leave.
big thanks to the whole xanga team for my almost 7 years of writing here! I'm sure I'll come back to visit eery now and again to see what I have written over the years:)
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| what would the jury say so one more has been accused in London of "stepping over the line between freedom of speech and insiting violence."
one of his crimes was to raise funds publically for insurgents in Iraq. and of course, he is a supporter of Jihad against America (which is said to be a crime as well).
I wonder what the jury will say if they were to try the many jews who helped raising funds, went to fight, seeked supplies of high-tech weapons from America in and before 1949 when Israel established her country by occupying lands that belonged to others? what will the jury also say about presidents and prime ministers, who publically rally support for war, who doesn't need to raise funds for killing because they have control over how much is spent on war and they do spend a lot, who, instead of "fighting with the only weapon he has, which is his tongue" fight with numerous leathal weapons?
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| EASTERN CONGOTHERE WAS A VERY DISTURBING REPORT ON RADIO 4 THIS MORNING BEING BROADCASTED when I was having breakfast.
a woman and her whole family, children and everyone, were dragged out of their village by some soldiers. all the men who was related to the woman were killed with a bayonette sliced through their body. then the soldiers tied a rope round her baby's neck, the woman was made to pull the rope to strangle the baby. 19 soldiers raped the woman, and the woman and one of her daughters are the only survivers. the woman told the interviewer that she kept telling the child that all her brothers and sisters and relatives have died, and her mother has knd of died already too...
at this point I was just thinking, what should be done to these soldiers!! I'd torture them, I would kill them in the slowest of all ways, I would make them suffer as much as possible, I would make them pay for the crimes, the barbaric acts, not worthy of being called humans thinking and actions that they comitted.
I went on to think, that prison really may not be the most suitable punnishment for all crimes. punnishing people with imprisonment is perhaps enough most of the time, but punnishing conscious wolves, lions, thinking tigers, cats that understand what other animals and people are thinking and feeling, I think doing to them what they have done to others is a much better way of punnishing them.
the interview went on. the woman was asked what she would like to be done with the soldiers, she simply said..."get them out of the country."
interviewer: dont you want to see them killed
woman: no...
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| chinese government - wake up!why is the Chinese government so stupid!
if the Americans can think of terms like non-compatible something combatants (can't even remember the stupid word), to replace prisoners of war so as to avoid responsibilities, and self-assisted something killing to replace suicide so as to erase all records of attempted suicide in guantanamo bay, and something something eatting to replace force-feeding so as to say that no force-feeding goes on at all so that the bastards can claim that they are humane...... why can't the Chinese government be a bit more inventive and come up with some words to describe the situation in such a way that the government is noble and kind etc?
I'm being sarcastic of course, basic human rights everywhere is important including the leading nations (yes, that's what everywhere means, every single place, no exclusion, some nations don't understand that surprisingly).
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| nastinessof all the nasty things that humans are capable of, and have been doing, slavery and selling girls for prostitution really are the two that make me most angry. I remember reading the totilas curtain (which I wrote about a long time ago, not really about slavery but...), and testimonies from slaves on how they were treated and sold and bought, the same kind of anger rose in me. now I'm reading the memoirs of a gaisha, and I have the same feeling.
I have seen and read lots of horrible things that humans have done, torturing - in order to make someone admit something, or just torture because one wants others to suffer... war - killingss, shootings, bombing, kill just because one is of a different race/religion, rape just because one is a woman whom one's leader said is one's enemy... gas chambers, so-called medical experiment,... all of these show a lot of human nature - cruel, obidient without own judgement, animal-like (after all we are animals), disgusting, horrible, nasty, self-protective to the point of erasing others of different race or have different believes... but none of these gives me the same kind of feeling as when I read about selling and buying people to be slaves or prostitutes. these two are just everything nasty combined and the sum is greater than the parts.
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