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Thursday, July 29, 2004
Paul Simon and Garfunkel sing tonight in Basel and how good it would be to listen and sing along with them, as of old when we dared face the multiple systems and say: enough is enough! and go on signing "And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made and the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming. And the signs said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls." And whispered in the sounds of silence! I seek someone in the sounds of silence someone named Yeshuah Friday, July 02, 2004
June 30th Irak: Baghdad, False start 
"The Iraqi government has approved reinstating the death penalty, President Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar said in an interview published on Wednesday, the day the interim authority is due to take legal custody of former president Saddam Hussein. "We held a meeting shortly after the transfer of power, during which we took some decisions including re-establishing the death penalty," Yawar told the Asharq al-Awsat Arabic daily. Agence France-Presse Death penalty was abolished by the US-led occupation's administrator, Paul Bremer, last year. Many Iraqi government members now want it back in time for Saddam Hussein’s trial. Is there nothing more urgent to wish, to celebrate, to work for in Irak today? For example security, food, water, medicaments for the wounded and the sick? so that a healthy body helps a healthy mind to think? Then: judge and, failing anything better, kill again! 
On the same earth, in the same Century South Africa Good Start 
"The death penalty, a weapon of terror used against thousands of working people in South Africa, has been abolished. In a unanimous decision June 6, 1995, South Africa's Constitutional Court voted to ban the use of capital punishment". A prison official at Pretoria Central penitentiary reported that the news was greeted with "shouting and clapping and general jubilation on death row." (from the media) The constitution 
The ANC hailed the ruling. The court's decision "represents a major victory for the democratic forces of our country who for years campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty. Never, Never, and Never again must citizens of our country be subjected to the barbaric practice of capital punishment." "We have sufficient cause to be cynical about humanity. We have seen enough injustice, strife, division, suffering, and pain, and our capacity to be massively inhuman. But this gathering counters despairing cynicism and reaffirms the nobility of the human spirit," Mandela said. This good will is, perhaps, just a beginning but, with profound pride, gratitude and love, we say: It's a jolly good start! Ten years and we count our blessings! Happy people! 
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