London Blasts: Let's not them win

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Let's not them win
By Gabriele Zamparini

London, the city where I live, has been attacked. Ordinary people are
paying the prize, once again. Killing innocent people is an infamous act,
never legitimate. Never justified. Never. But if we want to understand
what's going on without hysteria, we must look at the full picture. Again,
not to apologize. But to understand. And hopefully to do something to build
a better world.

I was living in New York when the September 11th attacks happened. I saw
the people of New York meeting spontaneously in the streets and the squares
of Downtown Manhattan. Staying together. Talking and singing for peace. Not
revenge. I witnessed how the power used those events for its own agenda. I
remember the manipulation of the events by the media, that corporate media
that was beating the drums for war. And I feared the rise of a totalitarian
regime.

There are still many questions on what exactly happened that day. But
since, Afghanistan has been bombed and innocent people there, people like
you and me, are still dying because of our Governments' actions. Iraq has
been invaded and occupied. No connections whatsoever linked Iraq to the
September 11th attacks. And none of the alleged reasons given by our
ruthless leaders were true. More than 100,000 Iraqi innocent civilians have
been murdered, most of them women and children. Many young boys and girls
from the United States, the United Kingdom, from Italy and many other
countries lost their lives. Young boys and girls who didn't even start
their lives were sent to kill other people, people who did nothing to them
or to their own country. They were sent far away from home, through a brain
washing process that involves complicity and unity by all sides of the
establishment.

And then the massive human rights violation at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib...

All this and much more, we were told, was necessary to fight the "War on
Terror". But war IS terror.

All this and much more, we were told, was necessary to keep our cities
safe. Then Madrid and now London.

All this and much more, we were told, was necessary to build democracy in
Iraq. Yet, no Iraqi wants foreign occupation.

In this day of sorrow, our solidarity and our thoughts must go to the
innocent victims of these cruel and infamous acts in London. But our love
for these brothers and sisters must not be an empty and hypocritical
gesture of circumstance or convenience.

This is a time for reason, honesty and open discussion. Those who target
innocent civilians are infamous terrorists who deserve our contempt and
must be held accountable. Always. Doesn't matter if they terrorize innocent
civilians with a bomb placed on a bus or with much more expensive and
sophisticated weaponry paid for by our tax money. Let's not them win.

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