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December 11, 2004
They can't be serious...
But I fear they are.
Millions of folded paper cranes fluttered down from warplanes in the skies over southern Thailand Sunday as the air force completed a mission of peace aimed at expressing the nation's hope for an end to separatist violence in the Muslim-dominated region.
Aw. Now isn't that special?
How could anyone take such a thing seriously? Yet, somewhere in the land of Oz.. er... I mean, somewhere in DUmmie Land, they do believe...
"Now that's a bomb that I'd like to use in Iraq, Afghanistan, everywhere including the Red states here." -Xultar
"Would that our government do something to promote peace instead of bombing the shit out of countries unable to defend themselves. Other countries are putting us to shame. Of course, we brought it on ourselves." -Ilmart
Yes, shame on the United States for not dropping paper cranes all over the world.
Imagine... "Achmed.. Achmed, wait! While I was out in the back dulling the beheading knife on the Allah rock, a pretty little paper crane floated down on my head. I am now overwhelmed with peaceful feelings of warmth and kindness towards my fellow man. I think we should let the infidel keep his head and make peace with our neighbors. Achmed... why are you pointing that gun at me? Achmed wait... touch the crane, please touch the crane and feel the love... Achmed... Achmed... nooooooo...."
Can you feel the love yet? No? Well, maybe this quote will help you understand the appropriate reaction:
"This photo actually brought tears to my eyes." -montana_hazeleyes
Jeepers. Who'da thunk it? A few paper cranes = world peace. Thank goodness there is a majority minority of progressive leftist thinkers.
But wait. There's more:
"That made me smile. And also remember that the world is filled with people like this. (Even in this country!!) Look at all of us, right?" -rockedthevoteinMA
Yeah. The world is looking at them all right, sure they are. Um... kumbaya and all that, sure, but I think they missed a very small, yet, important part of the story:
The gesture, however, failed to damp the unrest, with police saying they defused a 22-pound bomb Sunday on a crowded road where many people were waiting to gather the paper birds.
Did the DUmmies have anything to say about the "freedom fighters" who tried to use this pretty, peaceful gesture as a ways and means to blow up all the pretty, peaceful people gathered to receive the pretty, peaceful paper cranes? Of course not. Too busy condemning the evil United States of America. But wait! There's more:
On Monday morning a bomb was detonated at a rest stop for patrolling soldiers. Four troops were wounded, one seriously, in Narathiwat province's Ra-ngae district.
Another bomb exploded nearby hours later, seriously injuring an assistant district chief as he parked his car. The official, Pricha Nuannuay, 38, was in the area to instruct security forces to conduct thorough searches for explosive devices, police said.
A third bomb found later in a garbage bin was defused by police.
Asked about the incidents, (Thai Prime Minister) Thaksin told reporters: "Don't worry. We will continue to fight."
Continue to fight? But what about the pretty peaceful paper cranes? The Prime Minister said they had an "enormous, positive psychological effect" toward peace.
"The Thai royal family simply rawks. They are very cool, very concerned, very involved people." -crispini <-- click
Sure, very cool, very concerned, very involved people indeed, especially when you don't mention that 1,300 protestors were carted away by Thailand police after a demonstration in that country's southern provinces and 78 of them were found suffocated in the back of an army truck on their way to a military facility.
And especially when you don't mention that Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra expressed little sympathy for the victims ("It's about bodies made weak from fasting. Nobody hurt them."). Why mention that peace loving Muslims in that region have waged an intermittent campaign for independence (war), which has Malaysia concerned as well (the area was annexed by Thailand in 1902).
And of course, there is no need to mention that Abdulraman Abdulsamad, chairman of a local Islamic council, said "I cannot say what [is] going to happen, but I believe that hell will break out."
Oh the magic of peaceful paper cranes. I am sure it will be a peaceful hell, aren't you?
Finally, we have this:
"Let's start folding.. and dump millions of them over the red states....." -VivaKerry
Good idea! Luckily for the world, 1monster provided a link for "how to" directions on the thread. Screw the environment, how about if you get started now. You could have a bunch ready by 2008 and sway the vote! Over here at the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, we want to help. We have plenty of paper made from trees that we chopped down especially for this project. In fact, entire forests have been set aside for the making of peaceful paper cranes. And dropping millions of peaceful paper cranes is not littering, it's... er... peaceful! Yeah, peaceful!
Just step right into this nice padded room, we already have your name in the little slot on the door. Making peaceful paper cranes sure beats basket weaving, don't it?
Can you say Kumbaya?
Posted by LindaSoG at December 11, 2004 07:36 AM