After the recent theatre hostage crisis in Moscow, I became curious about Chechnya; who they were and why were they holding people hostage and blowing things up all over Russia. The first red flag was of course when the media described the perpetrators of the incidences as “the rebels” or “rebel forces.” This usually means “the good guys” or “the people”, but don't try telling most people that. Because they’ll think you're crazy and call you a “rebel” too. So for the last week or so I have been studying the history of Chechnya.
As it turns out, my suspicions were right. As usual, Chechnya is a country of people who want sovereignty and their independence from the hands of a larger, more powerful and evil country, Russia. Russia has been trying to take over their country and people for over four-hundred years now. The rest of us sit and watch it happen. We don't help the Chechens, even though Russia has been committing ethnocide on their people for hundreds of years. Killing and deporting millions of them. We the United States and other civilized countries around the world participate in Olympic games with Russia, have tea with them, etc etc. same thing with China, even though they have murdered millions of Tibetans and taken over their homeland as well. Same thing with England and just about every country on earth over the centuries, but specifically Northern Ireland.
The next thing that hits you, when you come at the reality of all of this with a brand new fresh perspective is why in the hell does the rest of the world sit and watch while one major country tortures brutalizes rapes pillages and murders another smaller country? That is the real question. This is something really that just sits in the back of the mind constantly, without end… and Russia has the nerve to call it terrorism.
Are we supposed to feel sorry for the recent victims in the theatre in Moscow? Are we supposed to feel sorry for the victims of attacks in England and northern Ireland by the IRA? Are we supposed to feel sorry for victims of attacks in Israel by Palestinians because Israel has occupied several regions of their country and won't give it back? Well I don't know the answer to this question. I just know what I feel. Remember when we were really young and our parents and teachers told us to keep our noses out of other people’s business? Hhhmmm. I think this is a start. I think we the people would make a lot more progress if took situations like this up with our own governments rather than trying to blame other people for what they are doing to either try to win their independence or seek revenge on our governments for past wrong-doings.
I think that eventually humanity will wake up. I have faith in this. I have faith that one day the people will wake up and get real and get honest. That power hungry war mongers will no longer control the people and the media that feeds the people the garbage they wash their fast food down with. I have faith that one day, maybe in this lifetime, maybe in my next, that I will wake up and read in the paper that England has given Ireland back its whole country and has stopped its bullshit rhetoric and excuses. That one day I will wake up, maybe in this lifetime, maybe two lifetimes from now, and see on the television that China has given back Tibet to it's people and is now paying them back, at least monetarily, for all the suffering they inflicted; that one day we will wake up and every African America and Native American born in America is offered a free ride to college or money to start a business to help try to pay them back for what America did to them. That Australia has reconciled with the natives that they have murdered and stolen from for thousands of years. And that Israelis and Palestinians have started intermingling amongst each other, marrying, becoming friends, starting businesses together. This is our future. Don't let anyone tell us any different. If they do, they probably have a vested interest in perpetuating the turmoil, the greed, and the repression. Who was it who wrote the infamous opening line? “The answer to any question that can be asked, is, money.”
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