Tuesday, June 7, 2005

! ! Zimbabwe - An Echo Comments

Rating: 2.6

The day before yesterday
they dealt with the terminally ill to free the hospitals.
Yesterday,
they dealt with those who did not contribute to the economy.
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Michael Shepherd
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Scarlett Treat 25 August 2007

'Ask not for whom the bell tolls - - - - - - ' We never know, do we? ?

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Chris Mendros 13 July 2007

'..and when they came for me, there was no one...' A lesson not to be forgotten. God bless Pastor Niemoller

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alice sunderland 13 March 2007

powerful stuff. good to read/bad to read - if you know what i mean. al

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Robert Howard 08 March 2007

Powerful! Such a cold, unfeeling euphemism, 'dealt.' Kyrie Eleison!

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Daniel Tyler 19 June 2006

You sum up Zimbabwe very well, Michael. There is the sense of inevitably that moves the passive onlooker.

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Michael Shepherd 08 June 2005

It makes such ruthless Malthusian logic - less food, so fewer mouths...and though I hardly like to verbalise this - 'AIDS' takes on a new old meaning in this context...

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Michael Shepherd 07 June 2005

Jefferson - 'Send not to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'...

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***** ***** 07 June 2005

I was moved by this Michael.. not least the implied inevitability..

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David Nelson Bradsher 07 June 2005

Well said, Michael. A good addition to Chris' request.

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Michael Shepherd

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