A matter of perspective

Weep Indeed

 

by Jon Taylor / December 28th, 2012

 

Twenty seven

 innocent civilians killed -

 women and children

 in Newtown, Connecticut.

 

That’s about one

 for every hundred thousand killed -

 barefoot peasants in Vietnam,

 Laos and Cambodia.

 

That’s about one

 for every one hundred killed

 when they bombed the slums of Panama

 to flush out Manuel Noriega.

 

That’s about one

 for every twenty thousand killed -

 children under five years of age

 by sanctions against Iraq.

 

Borrowed from http://dissidentvoice.org/

 

The first Newtown lawsuit has been filed, and it values a human life at $100 million. Have you forgotten that we refused to pay promised reparations to Vietnam? How much did Union Carbide pay for the lives lost at Bhopal? Hint: It was a lot less than $100 million apiece.

 

Are our children that much more important than theirs?