The younger Gandhi was mentioned to me few weeks ago by an American friend at a Church-organized picnic. Gandhi, he said, gave a talk at a college just walking distance from David Smith's house. David, my sponsor, and I were enormously frustrated by not having attended the event, especially that it was open to the public.
The City Newspaper reported that Gandhi relocated his office, the Mohandas K. Gandhi Institute for Peace and Nonviolence, to Rochester after his wife died this year. They had been in the city since 2005 "to be close to their daughter," the report added.
Here's what Arun Gandhi told City Newspaper that might give Bush a fit (and might urge him to commit suicide if his advisors repeat it to him):
"There is nothing we can't accomplish, no problem so great, that we can't learn something from sitting down and talking to one another."
To make Bush come back to smoking pot, Arun Gandhi continues:
"Resorting to violence as a way to resolve differences in an act of desperation that destroys the individual who commits the violence as much as it inflicts pain and suffering on the victim."
Let me simplify that thought: "The American troops should vacate Iraq." At least for my own sense of understanding that is what Gandhi's words mean. But will Bush ever find the heart to "listen" to anybody? No! My conversations with Americans for the past months prove that Bush listens to only one person -- his vice-president. That is why Dick Cheney will not be "persecuted" as long as Bush gets in the way. I believe by the time this write up gets noticed by the White Intellegence I will be monitored.
Journalists have tried to expose the morbidity of Bush's platform on the Iraq invasion, but their efforts prove to be futile. This country needs serious muckrakers so Bush will realize that the American troops overstayed in Iraq. Most of the soldiers don't even know why they were sent there. What they know is they will be able exercise what they've trained for and spend the bullets they have. It is disappointing that Bush doesn't have a son. We could have convince him to send his son to Iraq and see for ourselves what he will feel about it.
Mr. Bush, we already know that Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction. Hussein is DEAD. It is time to move on. Mr. President, "hear the cry of your people."
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Our American friend by the way, whom I mentioned above, was formerly connected with one the US's security agencies. He told me that he had been to the Philippines in the 60s. He said his Filipino friends took his group to places where "tourists were not allowed to see." That made me think about such places. I thought it might beaches or vacation hideaways. However, he revealed to me that they visited the slum areas of Manila. All that time, the areas were being concealed by huge billboards and streamers. He said it was a learning experience for him and his group. That experience, he said, lead him to give opportunity to a lot of Filipinos to work abroad so that they could alleviate their living conditions in their country.
One of my professors even told me last time that when his son had visited the Philippines, as a representive of a company, he was taken by his Filipinos friends to a dump site which proved to be a worthy place to live on despite the living condition. I said the place might be the world famous Smokey Mountain.
Imelda Marcos once said that she hated UGLINESS. She still does. Whenever she sees garbage she looks away and concentrate on what is beautiful. But there is beauty in trash, too, Madam. Even people who are products of an ugly, corrupt and trashy government.
Smokey Mountain, by the way, has become a tourist attraction.
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