Food for thought

What the fathers saw, the children will reap.

This old proverb comes to my mind often since the tragedy in New York has happened.

   What terrible crimes have been committed throughout the Centuries, dominating other countries and their people, Attila the Hun, plundering and killing in Europe.  The Crusaders, (Christians) fighting against Muslims, forcing their beliefs onto them.

   Hitler moving towards a new age, trying to introduce cloning and a total hatred for the Jews and ordering their terrible deaths. - One should have thought that the Jews have had enough fearful experiences to make them more tolerant towards their neighbours, the Palestinians. It is again a matter of land ownership.  Religion and captured land are mostly the reasons for wars

   But lets look further back....   Columbus arriving in the Americas.  Who did profit?  Europeans of course.  Natives were treated like savages.  The  Red-Indians had and still have a high regard of nature.  Its our life.  Nature was ignored by the new arrivals..

   The same happened in Africa.  The land was taken by planters and cheap labour was introduced.  Slaves were shipped in the most torturous way and were sold like cattle to unscrupulous plantation owners.  President Lincoln stands in high esteem for abolishing this terrible crime.

   Wild animals in Asia, Africa, America and Brazil were killed, for financial gain and amusement, depriving the natives of their inheritance.  Large chunks of forests have disappeared and are still disappearing.

   In Africa, not even as much as one single water hole was bored for the  natives during the Colonisations.  When great draughts occurred thousands died of starvation.  Diseases were brought to them and laws were forced on to them in these Colonies.  During Hitler’s occupation in Europe, the raided lands were called Protectorates.  Massmurders were committed by the Nazis all over Europe, not only killing Jews, but anyone with any misgivings about the new order, even Germans. ( Italy suffered a great deal under this occupation and many innocent people and partisans were shot.  An Italian  Priest told me that when he was young, he feigned death after being shot.  He prayed to the Holy Mary asking for her help.  The SS thought that he was dead, but he was saved.  Because of his experiences he became a priest.)

   Osama bin Laden, living in Afghanistan, accumulated enough wealth to be able to terrorise the whole world, but ignored the plight of the starving Afghanistanies who had been living in war conditions most of their lives.

   Is the attack on America on 11. September the start of the prophesied doom?

Could this be the punishment from above and bin Laden is only the instrument?

   Sit back quietly and think of these events I have just described.

In the meantime, all we can do is being vigilant and protect ourselves.

This are my thoughts, which come up to my mind from time to time.

(Co)  Gisela Cooper