In Memory:
In just over nine hours we remember for the sixtieth time, the dropping on Hiroshima and its citizens of the first, atomic weapon of mass destruction. In the following few seconds over 100,000 people were killed and many more whose details were never recorded. Those who remain unknown are the thousands of Korean and Chinese slaves who were living in the city at the time. Because no records of them were kept, we will never know how many actually died that morning.
Today, the authorities in Japan record the deaths of people who were in Hiroshima on August 6th, adding their names to the list of those killed by the bomb. No matter what the cause of death or how recently they died, they are recorded as bomb victims because that event changed the lives of everyone in the city that day, so profoundly.
It is estimated that over 200,000 people were killed by that single bomb, over a 40 year period.
It Begins:
Australias' prime-monster, John Howard said today that the most important civil right he or we have, is the right to live. This is the precurser to his new anti-terror laws which will restrict some civil rights and which are the beginning of the end for civil rights in this country.
The new mantra will be: "Limited Rights for Security Reasons" Be afraid people, be very afraid, we have no bill of rights in this country and we are about to have our civil liberties restricted. I am moving to the "Islands" ASAP.
On those very sad notes, I bid you all a good night and a goodnight to all.
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