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hippopotamus of the ZambesiDear friends and relatives,
Resurrection of Jesus is near, the Church suggest us to convert ourselves.
What a difficult word. It makes fear. We would call us Christians without
too much suffering, but it is only an illusion.
Starvation, War, Pride, Envies, Revenge, Hate, Jealousy, wild research for
personal pleasure, Selfishness, Lie and Deceit keep on sowing a wake of destruction
and of incalculable sufferings in this poor world.
Can World get better? I don’t know yet if war in Iraq will be declared or not when you will read this letter. But you have realized that “all” are using and manipulating the truth and positive values to justify their own dirty interests.
Bush shows Saddam as a devil and Saddam shows Bush as a devil! Both do it
to justify the bad things they are doing. Bush wants to stuff himself with
the oil shafts and Saddam to increase his own power and to pass to history
as the modern times Nabuccodonosor the Great!
Saddam Hussein is teasing the whole of the world since many years, by first
poor Palestinians, Iranians and all the Muslims whom he is really not interested
in.
Saddam wants dirty power only! Bush? … the same thing “cum patatis”!
What a repeating music, don’t you think?
In the meanwhile freedom and truth go to packing. Respect for Human rights
goes to sewers. Struggle against terrorism justifies terrorism of State and
religion justifies struggle against the devil on duty.
They would say in old Mid Ages “Burn him because I know him!” But
unfortunately we are in modern “Middle Ages”, with a great technological
development but with a deep regression in wisdom.
However I think to see a positive aspect. In past centuries nobody spent
so many words and so much propaganda to justify a war.
Saddam Hussein is not a saint, but a true and great criminal, why Bush is
looking for so many acknowledgements when he already decided to do everyone
right under everyone’s noise? In the past four guttural orders were enough
to line up the strongest opponents and the usual charges of “antipatriotic,
communist, revisionist, fascist, nazist, infidel, heretic, plague-spreader
etc.” were enough to justify every kind of brutality by the State, today
is no more in force because people opened his own eyes and don’t believe
in these flatteries anymore.
Too many violations and too many abuses made by States and Governments have
been unveiled.
People were informed of them. We don’t believe any more in good fibs
showing “the others like bad guys” and “we like good ones”.
Today, if honest, we have only to admit we are all in a sorry state in front
of truth and justice. We all have much to be forgiven. All: whites and blacks,
men and women, the rich and the poor. There was too much manipulation of truth
and justice. We are nauseated of it. A unique chorus of shame will cover the
criminals and the liers of History.
I believe each man has the seed of Good and the seed Bad inside. I don’t
believe any more in poor little blacks, because I see the poor everywhere
and with no differences of colors, race or religions.
I see criminal rulers everywhere, Africa is full of them, I see corruption
in all Nations, none get away. The difference is evaluated only on the consciousness
in moral values that makes distinguished a nation from the other.
Other differences are not applicable.
They speak of tourism to Siam and other countries for pedophile sex, but
they don’t say that sex with children was done there since elder times.
They don’t invented it now, because tourism! Rape to little boys and
girls is a component of history of Asia and of history of the whole world!
So we can only say that the human being, under every climate, is always the
same: either he considers the others like his brothers with the same rights,
or he will try to exploit them in every way as always happened during history,
done by every people and every human beings.
The strongest crushed and exploited the weakest.
Children on service for sex with adults are part of a very ancient practice
present in all the continents and in the majority of the people.
What were the young girls and the young boys on slavery in Roman ages doing?
In Africa there were always many errors and there are yet and they cannot
be attributed to colonialism. Evil, corruption, oppression, the considering
the other as a slave of mine just to use him like an object is an old-as-the-world
sin.
Warning: Slavery and slaves (men and women) trading is absolutely not ended
yet!!!!
Let’s stop with teasing ourselves and let’s start on calling all
the things with their own name.
If we study history of mankind we will discover that no people can save himself
only by himself. All of us were saved by Christ.
Then here is the true great Revolution in history: Jesus Christ saying “
whatever you will do to one of these little men you will do it to me ”
(Mt.24) both in good both in evil making.
Jesus puts himself near the weakest and the overwhelmed. He never made difference
among the oppressors, for him they are all alike. He himself was a victim
of them. His oppressors were the men of culture of his time, the religious
men of his time, the politicians of his time, the soldiers of his time, the
arrogant people of his time, the dirty part of people of his time.
Oppressors were those who handled the POWER for their own dirty interests
and Jesus Christ, who was a notorious bore, forcing to convert themselves,
had to be killed.
If too many dearest tourists of ours go in countries of the Third World, putting
interest in their own pleasure, dreaming their own pleasure, nothing else
than a pleasure supreme, and if they have no other values in their mind, how
can we be surprised? Our fantasy will never imagine the errors that the human
being is able in making when he has nothing else in his mind.
But thanks God there are also those who are looking for the truth in the world,
who are trying to have justice, who are trying to know the brother nations,
who are trying to help the others and to build a better world.
This brand new sensibility, this new consciousness and this new Resurrection
is increasing. Christ Rose again really!
We cannot change the world without paying of our own. Thinking there could
be justice and peace without the renounce to their privileges made by the
rich is a silly and unlikely thing. Those who believe in values of brotherhood
and life will keep on living and believing, with the Rosen Christ power only.
This is what I wish you in this New Resurrection Easter shining with her light
in the middle of mankind’s sufferings and errors.
I bless you in the Rosen Christ!
I greet and embrace you with fondness and friendship.
F.Claudio, in crisis of conscience hippopotamus.