What is there to celebrate?

‎"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr

The last few days have been pretty interesting/significant in the history of the world. On Friday the 29th April, most of the world was on a go slow in order to witness a rich guy born into a fortunate family marry a pretty lass! Yes, I think it was a pretty massive non-event in my life not because I am a hater, but because I failed to see the relevance of the Royal family, theirs or any other royal family. What value do they add other than preserve some archaic order that in my mind has no real relevance in today’s world, but ey if that’s your thing, hope it was fantastic!! Kate’s sister is quite hot though ;)

Then on the 1st May, I heard on the 2nd May, the ‘Big One’ Osama Bin Laden dead. 11th September 2001, we all remember where we were when we heard about the falling of the twin towers. Roughly 3000 lives lost, blame…Osama. 1998 US embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania, 225 dead, blame…Osama, Bali, London, Spain. There are more I am sure but we will just focus on those for now. So for 3225 lives or so, the Western World set on a 10 year hide n seek adventure with Mr Bin Laden costing billions if not trillions, how many lives in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have been lost, hundreds of thousands? The world is a whole lot more full of hate or should I say the world is now able to unveil its deep rooted prejudices and its almost acceptable….

Hey oh oh hey, democracy is the future. I mean look at what is happening in the Middle East, the people are tired, the people are speaking! What’s that song, we’re not gonna take it, no we aint gonna take it, we not gonna take it…anymore!! Some might argue that its all West induced, but I don’t buy that one, for the West to get 100s of thousands of people to risk their lives in the hope of a better life, to fight against a machine that has ruled their lives and the lives of their parents for many a year…well that means that they truly do believe in this quest of theirs and as such this was more their will than any external forces will.

So anyway this evening was the first time I tuned into the news stations to watch the sensationalism going on regarding Osama Bin Ladens death. To be honest when I heard of his death this morning, I think indifference is the word I can use to describe my emotion. Osama, dead or alive is all the same to me, not because I feel nothing for those lives that have been lost, but more because his death will make no difference. Before him there were others and after him there will be more. There is a lot of skepticism in me as well. Who was this man Osama, was he truly the master mind behind those horrid attacks on September 11, 2001? Yes says the US and the media machine, but they also told me Saddam had weapons of mass destruction of which they are yet to produce 1, they also assisted in selling the world a dream of a financial system that is fundamentally sound and a safe haven for my hard earned retirement funds, and we all know what happened to that! They set a man on the moon many years ago but haven’t done it again since…

What evidence do I have that this man truly existed in the form that he was portrayed to have been? When did independent somebody, have sight or a conversation with this man, was he really alive up until his reported death on the 2nd May or did he die a good few months/years ago? Yes there were a few strategically released video footages, which happened to occur prior to some election or announcement that the Bush administration was about to make, since then, there haven’t been too many videos released or his name mentioned too much.

What evidence do I have that even if he did exist, that he wasn’t made to become a scapegoat for a controlled explosion of the twin towers on September 11, a way to give this terror a face and allow the US and its allies a reason to go into Afghanistan and later Iraq so they can fulfill whatever their agenda is there?

What evidence do I have that there actually was a bad guy called Osama and he did all these bad things? I don’t think I will ever know now, because on the 1st May (2nd May for the soldiers and ‘Osama’) he was killed. I am well sure he could have been captured, shot to the shoulder disarm him, knee caps immobilize him and whala you have your guy, but nope, 2 shots to the head, and why not? Makes us the heros again no-one can ask questions. And to make certain of this, the body is dumped in the ocean. These people are pretty smart. No one is any wiser. DNA test, compare it to his deceased sister, ok thanks.

Aaaaaand they still go and try make matters worse and tell me that they gave him a proper Muslim burial?! You tell me how that is possible, when reports and footage of gross abuse, perpetrated by marines against captured Al Qaeda prisoners are being shown to the world and you are going to tell me that these self same people will provide any dignity to a man on the TOP of the CIA’s most wanted list, come now??!! Secondly which part of a proper Muslim burial was he afforded, was it the prayer for the forgiveness of sins or his grave being perpendicular to the Qibla (Mecca), ie his body lying on the right hand side facing Mecca, what they sent navy divers to the sea bottom to dig the grave?…err me thinks not, but call me a skeptic if you must!

For me though the saddest pictures I saw were the jubilant celebrations at ground zero and all over America over his death. Tell me what justice that is? Will the lives of your mother, father, brother, sister, daughter, son, friend, husband, wife be restored? Not so much!! Will the thousands that have died as a result of this war on terror’s lives be restored….ehh not so much! Willl the trillions that has been spent on this farcical war come back to fill up the ever increasing US coffers? Emmm not so much! Will the many young soldiers who lost their lives out there fighting a pretty winless war return home to their grieving mothers…mmm not so much! Is the world a safer place now….mm not so much. So does this mean that now when I fly I can leave my laptop in my bag, have a can of deo in my bag so the person sitting next to me doesn’t have to smell my pits, leave my shoes on and not have to go through stupid x-ray machines that is radiating(germinating) those lovely cancer cells?? Au contraire security is so gonna be heightened now! All these scenes of jubilation just fuels the hate! Soundbites stating this is a good day for America, someone please tell me what good it does anyone?! What is there to be jubilant about then? There is no closure, there is no explanation why those lives were lost! The face of this terror is no more, but something worse will take its place, a faceless terror that looms around any corner. If he did in fact exist and was the person he was made out to be, make no bones about it, there will be others and there will be many a brainwashed fanatic out there more than willing to continue his work and the saddest thing for us is we wont know who they are!

Ok say Osama did these crimes, for me to be truly satisfied I would have loved to have seen him have his day in court at least answer for some of his crimes. Both he and George Bush, it really amazes me how the world seems ok with the fact that this bra lead the world into an unnecessary war basically invaded another country because he didn’t like their government and so toppled it….because he can and that’s ok…nah man! Do the crime damn well best be prepared to do the time!

I guess this has all but guaranteed president Obama a second term in the Oval Office but even this invokes a feeling of indifference, because I think I have lost faith in there being a truly good guy left out there who is true to his word. In the beginning President Obama said the search for Osama was not his priority but the war on terror, today he says when he got into office his first command was to make the search for Osama top priority…POLITICIANS all the same…

Birthdays
18th Patrick, Emmanuel
19th Dini, Bronwyn
21st Thashneee, Anthosh, Ronelle
22nd Rowlene, Cedric
24th Tasneem, Kirsty
25th Lizelle, Shaka
26th Kwaku
29th Melody
1st May Nic
2nd Lilian, Michael
4th Gayreth
5th Nana, Peace
6th Mommy Taz
7th Shakira, Bishnen, Claude

We are different in this world, even in my family of 7(folks, 4 siblings and I) we are so different in many aspects but yet we are the same. That’s everyone in this world. Respect for each other, tolerance of our differences and acceptance that inspite of our lot in life, race, social standing, height and beliefs at the end of the day we are all humans alive one day, dead another…

Much love and respect!

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