Virgil Showlion
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[b]leones potest resistere[/b]
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Apr 23, 2018 10:04:52 GMT -5
This is almost too outrageous for words. Imagine: you're the head of a working-class family living below the poverty line in an impoverished country, earning less than $2 a day. You can't afford to store your most valuable possessions (meager though they are) indoors, and so you've built up a rock wall around them, right next to your tent, hoping to keep them safe. But it's all for naught. In the night, a thief comes, greed and malice in his heart, and steals away what is yours. When you wake, your voice rises in anguish. You've been robbed again. It could mean the difference between life and death. Food on the table or starvation. "Surely this thief must pay," you think, your heart filling with righteous indignation. But the greater indignity is yet to come. As you leave your tent, you're approached by a man. A pretentious westerner. He looks at you with disgust, but then manages a passable bit of faux sympathy: "Robbed again? Oh my. Going to kill the thief, are you? How savage. How unenlightened. How pathetic." Behind him stands the rest of your village. You can't understand why they're not helping you. What has this westerner said to them? What has he done to them? Your resolve faltering, you plead with him man to man: "This is all that I have. The thief will come again." He sneers again. "That's what thieves do." This horror story is playing out in a dozen villages all across Asia. The western media is silent. Western leaders do nothing. It's up to us--lovers of peace and enemies of oppression--to speak out against men like this westerner and the powerful lobby that supports him: the SLC. Watch the video (it's only 8 minutes), witness the horrific truth for yourself, and join with me to end this injustice. Are you with me, good people? |
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