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This week in the news, Thomas Lubanga was in court on charges of war crimes, including use of child soliders in (the apparently) Democratic Republic of Congo. Also in the news, was the controversy of the BBC and Skys choice not to show the DEC appeal to give money to Hamas (on the grounds they would pass the aid onto the Palestinians), the same organisation which has used child suicide bombers?
Why is that I am expected to be appalled at the first yet sympathise with the second?
Were you appalled at the Congolese chap being charged, or is this really a question about the second thing?
Which to be fair, I'm slightly in agreement with the BBC using its independence to not broadcast propanganda..
The holocaust definitely happened though.....
The Teacher wrote: I'm appalled at the use of child soldiers, same as i am the use of child suicide bombers.
Ahhhhh I see where you're coming from now....we should leave them to starve/die of untreated conditions, so they cannot be exploited this way ay some later date. Very shrewd.
Liam, when something bad happens in your life, there will be a long queue of persons waiting to have a good laugh about it.
(having said that, I was under the impression donations would be made to aid agncies, not to hamas....I too would be against this. Maybe if the israelis let aid agencies in......)
Liam in the flesh is a charming and charismatic - if somewhat portly - fellow.
Liam online is a tedious cunt and pompous faux-faux-right wing ideologue, something exacerbated by his choice of profession.
Why is it that we're expected to like the first incarnation and yet 'tolerate' the latter (largely because of the former)????
PS - like Cambo says, providing aid to the starving civilians of a region whose entire infrastructure has been annihilated is not the same as supporting a militant terrorist group. Unless, of course, you're a tedious faux-faux right wing ideologue.
