Manchester v Libya
Having watched with helpless disgust of the Manchester bombing I find myself struggling to feel any sympathy for the victims. At a personal level, yes, but at a macro level not even a perhaps. The tears, the tributes, the defiant speeches from relatives and politicians hold very little for me. Where were the tears, the tributes, the protests even, when David Cameron ordered the bombers to wipe out a country called Libya? Twenty-one children and a police officer killed pales into utter insignificance when compared to the thousands or children killed, maimed and orphaned under the semantic cover of ‘‘collateral damage’’, because the Western powers didn’t like their ruler. The country has not recovered and may never recover.
And, just for the record, we as a country are no better. Children were killed in Afghanistan according to Nicky Hager. The details do not matter. They were killed because we have chosen to prolong a war that will have an inevitable conclusion of Afghanistan returning to where it was before the war started.
‘‘Lest we forget’’ certainly has a very hollow ring to it when we won’t even acknowledge that we are part of the problem.
Geoff Orchard
Ohaupo
Labour Party. Her latest attack was regarding the comments made by the Labour Party candidate Jamie Strange regarding a proposed medical school, that, according to her, conflict with Andrew Little’s. I will remind her that that the Labour Party is a truly democratic party that openly discusses its concerns. Unlike the Tory party that covers up its policies that may prove unpopular, the most recent example being the blatant disclosure by cabinet minister Alfred Ngaro that the National Party would stop funding for groups that spoke out against this present government. That was only one example of this bullying and covert behaviour. Voters should never forget that the present PM is known as ‘‘the double dipper from Dipton’’ for a very good reason. So please, Bea Braun, start looking at your own party’s failures which have thrust our fair land into utter chaos with mass unemployment, a colossal housing crisis and people living in poverty.
T John Marshall
Cambridge
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Bryan Johnson
Omokoroa