Mass murder in Madrid
A few days are passing from when bunch of criminals caused 200 deaths, and over 1400 wounded in train bombing in Madrid, Spain.
It is terrible to see that always the price of the actions of the most powerful is paid by the most powerless. It is extremly unfair that many who perhaps had nothing to do with anything are perished and many families are devastated by the train bombing in Madrid. Although, other killings that are not less significant than this one, usually do not get as much coverage and attention by the media (especially if they are committed by the great powers), I am glad to see at least this one (for any reason) gets the attention it deserves as people are people and no matter what origin they are from.
Although it is not completely clear who has done this murderous act, as there are conflicting reports, however it doesn't really matter as the first priority. What matters is to realize who has suffered the most, and who will potentially benefit from this. Whether this was done by ETA (Spanish separatist group from northern province of Basque) or the Islamic extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda or any other criminal entity, the fact remains that this can potentially result in the re-election of the one of the most un-democratic governments of Spain in last few decades. How could we interpret this action just before general elections in Spain? Spanish prime minister Aznar, is the one who despite overwhelming disapproval of the Spaniards (about 80%) joined the team of the current criminal Bush administration in invading Iraq. Spanish people did not wish to be part of this, but their prime minister made a decision for them despite clear dis-satisfaction of the people. As a result of that move (perhaps amongst others) by Aznar, he was suffering a serious disapproval rate in the Spanish public opinion. But who knows what impact this action will have to the Spanish public opinion. Angry people may not make wise decisions, and Spanish people are (rightfully) angry these days. This may even result in them wanting a government to continue the policies of the current government in so-called fight against terrorism. If that's the case, they might decide "why change then? May be Aznar should stay in the office after all". Here is why I call this a possible benefit to Aznar government. On the other hand, this might back fire on Aznar as his failure in his so-called fight against terrorism.
If I was in Madrid yesterday, I would absolutely be one of the millions of people who demonstrated against this mad massacre of ordinary people. A sick world we live in. Why should these things happen to the ordinary people? Why should ordinary people be the target when the craziest creatures want to take revenge on each other. Why not top guys who are the decision makers suffer? Yeah, they live with tens of bodyguards around them even in their bed-rooms. They have no worrying. They're going to be fine and continue living their comfortable lives in their kingdoms even after they finish their terms in the office. But the child who lost his father or mother, the parents who lost their son or daughter, the brother who lost his sister two days ago, have to deal with this horrible tragedy that they will always wish it to be just a scary nightmare that would end as soon as they wake up. Yes, they will have to deal with this for the rest of their lives.
Words cannot express how much I hate, yes I hate those who have so much disregard for the lives of the ordinary people only to push ahead their agendas.
Today, not only the world is not asafer, but it is significantly more dangerous than a year ago, no matter what bunch of ruthless idiot criminals claim that the world is a safer place as Saddam Hussein is not around anymore. In fact, Saddam Hussein was just the little guy, the big Saddam Husseins are in fact the ones who make the "safer world" claims and are still very much around.
It is terrible to see that always the price of the actions of the most powerful is paid by the most powerless. It is extremly unfair that many who perhaps had nothing to do with anything are perished and many families are devastated by the train bombing in Madrid. Although, other killings that are not less significant than this one, usually do not get as much coverage and attention by the media (especially if they are committed by the great powers), I am glad to see at least this one (for any reason) gets the attention it deserves as people are people and no matter what origin they are from.
Although it is not completely clear who has done this murderous act, as there are conflicting reports, however it doesn't really matter as the first priority. What matters is to realize who has suffered the most, and who will potentially benefit from this. Whether this was done by ETA (Spanish separatist group from northern province of Basque) or the Islamic extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda or any other criminal entity, the fact remains that this can potentially result in the re-election of the one of the most un-democratic governments of Spain in last few decades. How could we interpret this action just before general elections in Spain? Spanish prime minister Aznar, is the one who despite overwhelming disapproval of the Spaniards (about 80%) joined the team of the current criminal Bush administration in invading Iraq. Spanish people did not wish to be part of this, but their prime minister made a decision for them despite clear dis-satisfaction of the people. As a result of that move (perhaps amongst others) by Aznar, he was suffering a serious disapproval rate in the Spanish public opinion. But who knows what impact this action will have to the Spanish public opinion. Angry people may not make wise decisions, and Spanish people are (rightfully) angry these days. This may even result in them wanting a government to continue the policies of the current government in so-called fight against terrorism. If that's the case, they might decide "why change then? May be Aznar should stay in the office after all". Here is why I call this a possible benefit to Aznar government. On the other hand, this might back fire on Aznar as his failure in his so-called fight against terrorism.
If I was in Madrid yesterday, I would absolutely be one of the millions of people who demonstrated against this mad massacre of ordinary people. A sick world we live in. Why should these things happen to the ordinary people? Why should ordinary people be the target when the craziest creatures want to take revenge on each other. Why not top guys who are the decision makers suffer? Yeah, they live with tens of bodyguards around them even in their bed-rooms. They have no worrying. They're going to be fine and continue living their comfortable lives in their kingdoms even after they finish their terms in the office. But the child who lost his father or mother, the parents who lost their son or daughter, the brother who lost his sister two days ago, have to deal with this horrible tragedy that they will always wish it to be just a scary nightmare that would end as soon as they wake up. Yes, they will have to deal with this for the rest of their lives.
Words cannot express how much I hate, yes I hate those who have so much disregard for the lives of the ordinary people only to push ahead their agendas.
Today, not only the world is not asafer, but it is significantly more dangerous than a year ago, no matter what bunch of ruthless idiot criminals claim that the world is a safer place as Saddam Hussein is not around anymore. In fact, Saddam Hussein was just the little guy, the big Saddam Husseins are in fact the ones who make the "safer world" claims and are still very much around.
posted by Faramin | 2:48 p.m.
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