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Thoughts from the mind of Kool Musick, 9/20/01:

>100 aircraft are now flying
>out Saturday to Kuwait, and her son is amongst them. She is sincerely
>terrified that she will never see him again. What do I say to her?

... and what do you say to the tens of thousands of innocent 
Afghanistan citizens, most of them dead-poor, who are fleeing their 
country because Bush thinks cowboy language like "smoke them out of 
their holes" and "wanted: dead or alive" is an appropriate response 
to the current events?
Whatever happened to "unguilty until proven guilty"?  Isn't that the 
basis for our judicial system?  As far as I know, no guilty persons 
have yet been found, and evidence still is inconclusive.  Still the 
US president (of all people) calls for murder...  and thereby already 
makes completely innocent victims...

My heart bleeds for all those killed, or all who've lost relatives... 
But despite the enormity of this tragedy, it would prove a positive 
point about our so-called western democratic, humanitarian ideals if 
we could all keep seeing things in persepctive.

The sadness never stops...


HJ
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     Hendrik Jan Veenstra
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