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~...and justice for all~ Sunday,
2nd May 2004
goodbye ~ said
the sky
that was yesterday. life soft like a cloud, the sky a canvas for natural art. but this feeling of paradise didn't last long. back home, the tv greeted us with the pictures of the prisoners in Iraq. welcome back to reality. welcome back to cruel world. the pain beheld in those pictures, i couldn't take it. i tried still the pictures wouldn't leave me. i just can't get them out of my mind. and then the president of the Land of Liberty, standing there. and not having the courage to say sorry. not able to come up with even a half sentence that acknowledges that there was injustice done, or a word that says this will have consequence. not taking responsibility, just saying "I didn't like any of these pictures. Not a bit." maybe that was the worst, this total lack of giving any valid statement, after claiming for months that the US is acting out of responsibility to the world to bring "justice for all"... as if the face of war could be anything but an ugly face. and all the other politicians of all other involved countries, all those that always come up with statements so quickly that it makes you wonder who gets all those words assembled.. the same. silence over this. and you hope the reason would be a real loss of words, that they all sit somewhere, staring holes into walls, feeling with those who got abused, feeling their pain for a moment, a red river in a black sky of agony
and you are afraid that they are all busy trying to check if there are more photos, photos that might show that soldiers of their country were involved in the cruelty, too. and the pictures.. the irony of it. that they were taken out of a feeling of heroism. war souvenirs to bring back home. soldiers posing over their enemy. and the press choosing to ignore them out of a feeling of patriotism - which was so deep that the moment it was clear another newsmagazin would bring the story, they went headlines with it themselves. not for the sake of justice or investigative journalism. but for the sake of quota. this is painful. ~~ next: it's
only in the mind
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