> According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
about 35,615 children died from conditions of starvation on September 11,
2001
RELEVANT STATISTICS:
>* Victims: 35,615 children (source: FAO)
>* Where: poor countries
>* Special TV programs: none
* Newspaper articles: none
* Messages from the president: none
* Solidarity acts: none
* Minutes of silence: none
* Victims mournings: none
* Organized forums: none
* Pope messages: none
* Alert level: zero
>* Military mobilization: none
The real Mystics.
Ah, the self-flagellating Western consciousness....which we managed to
achieve through centuries of intestine wars and Papal interventions. We
too are ruled over by promises of future Paradises in our decision-making,
our restrained actions.
So we blame our own ancestors, our philosophy, our Economy, so we make a
systematic vivisection of our faults, we espose our sinnful chests, we
weep, feel self-repulsion, repent and flagellate our flesh to punish and
mortify our vicious mind.
Although I believe we have not completely failed in making our communities
and single individuals sensible towards the Third World ‘s poverty, and
even if our children in school are thought these matters in full respect
of all the new humanitarian syllabuses, at present these statistics still
represent, in my knowledge, a concern of mainly social workers, socialist
activists and doctors.
All those children dying of starvation have really almost nobody (a part
the Red Cross) fighting for them.
Erminia
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