extremist everything

It seems these days you always hear of extremist muslim terrorist, but no one ever talks about the extremist christian vigilantes of Washington who drive the "Co-olition of the Co-erced", like as if we would ever hear CNN talk about extremist christian terrorist who carpet bomb a northern Iraqi City to root out Sunni Muslims. We are in the middle of a new holy crusade, it is the extremist christians against the extremist muslims, the USA versus the Arabs.

We never hear of George W Bush as a extremist christian terrorist leader, or the extremist christian crack down on anyone but the whites called the war on terror. Just what are white people afraid of that they call what they don't know "extremist"?

Bastards Indeed!

I am shocked like any other person, this is now the third place in the world where I have been that has been the subject of terrorist bombs. The first was the little used train station bombed by the IRA, which I overnighted in on my way down to Penzance, the second the world trade center, and the third was Kings Cross where I transferred the first time to get to that small train station.

In a way I can understand the anger people feel, the first time the bombing occured just one week after I had passed through, the second many years after though. BUT three times is just too often for any one person to have to live through.

It is a sad state of affairs though when terrorist bomb in the first place. But even sadder though is when the terrorist do it for a reason which seems to some to be justified enough to give the terrorist tons of money. Like bombing innocent civilians and racially profiling citizens for carpet bombing like the USA has done in the past in so many countries.

The Wrong Message

One couldn't help but think that perhaps the cynics are right about the pop star's message going to the wrong people. It was almost as if the pop stars are unwilling to continue to perform liveaid and this was their good bye to helping the poor. Perhaps I am wrong, who knows.

Also it seems that there were no people of color except for the odd performer, except in Philadelphia and Africa. One can't help but to think that perhaps white people know in the back of their heads that they know what the world that they have created has helped to create Africa and the disparity and the death. Africa was not always poor, the indigenous people had of course dealt with periods of starvation naturally, but not on this scale.

Or to be alienated from their lands in the name of commerce that benefits western financiers and companies. I am not saying that white people are to blame for all of the problems or that white people are all bad, it is just that there seems to be a concerted effort in the past to have pushed for a kind of manifest destiny on the world.

However, it is sad when so many people suffer so that a few could benefit, and benefit really well. It is sadder when Canada which has benefited through taxes derived from companies that do business in Africa and who have grown as a result would pay so little back from its wealth.

It is sad when wealthy people are afraid of not having enough money to help poor people, that they want to stay wealthy. Myself I am thinking of becoming a refugee and heading to southern Canada so I could try and find a job. My government here which says it is trying to help Inuit, it seems are not hiring Inuit.