Darfur Cries
copyright ©2006 Brenda Terzian

One day there’ll be peace, in all of our lives
And enough food, for us all to thrive
And we’ll go home, ones we left behind
And happy lives, we’ll go and find

(chorus)
That’s our cry
Yes we cry
Oh, Darfur cries
(Yeah)

We wait in these camps, us and our hope
Just try to hang in; we try to cope
Our homes so close, and yet they’re so far
We’re making our best, till we leave where we are

(chorus)
That’s our cry
Yes we cry
Oh, Darfur cries
(Yeah)

One day we’ll be free, in our own homeland
And we’ll be so proud; there we will stand
It won’t be so long; yes it’ll be true
Cause of the help, from all of you

(chorus)
That’s our cry
Yes we cry
Oh, Darfur cries
(Yeah)

song by Brenda Terzian
actress, screenplay writer, book author
“Let us all be blessed by remembering the past, that we be not doomed to relive sad events!” 
—- Brenda Terzian
http://rhymster.com/members/Brenda_Terzian

Don’t forget Chile’s and all the other latinamerican genocides occured during this last century.

Me again… Mr. Cynic.

George said ““Because if we do, they will. They will disappear,” he said, noting that an “entire generation of people will be gone.”

Yes, sir. It’s my belief, based solely on observation of the ACTIONS of huge multi-national money-making organizations, that if several million indigent souls die in places like Darfur, THEY COULDN’T CARE LESS.

I don’t suggest these “boardroom bullies” actually PLAN the destruction of these folk. But I DO suggest they don’t give a damn when it happens. Their entire focus is on MAKING MONEY. And people who have few skills, bad health, diseases, no money and no prospects, aren’t going to make the multi-nationals any loot.

And Hilding, all the bible-quoting in the world is a complete waste of time. At no time in any history I’ve read has a “moral” beaten a “buck.” But… you can dream!

As I wrote over on Vanity Fair’s forum under the thread “Rallies Will Focus Attention On Darfur Genocide” (using my ncswede blog name):

Links:
Home page:
http://www.vanityfair.com/

Forum/V.F. Dish:
http://boards.vanityfair.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1

Message:
http://boards.vanityfair.com/message.jspa?messageID=16892#16892

I am against genocide and for exposing it wherever it exists.

I was thinking of going to one of the closest Native American reservations (or an enclave of a tribe that has been denied status) and quietly reminding myself of the history of my nation.

This is not to say that what is going on in Darfur is not evil (to use our President’s word), but I am afraid that the world has an ongoing example of the benefits of a ruthless policy of genocide, a policy of a people who have yet to be redeemed by remorse, confession, and repentance.

We are not followers of Jesus of the New Testament or Gandhi of our era. We are followers of Joshua of the Old Testament:

  But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are] consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

  So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

  And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

- Joshua 6:19-21 (King James Version of the Old Testament, Bible; http://www.blueletterbible.org)

For Jesus taught us:

  Judge not, that ye be not judged.

  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

  Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye?

  Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

-Matthew 7:1-5 (King James Version of the New Testament, Bible; http://www.blueletterbible.org)

Thanks for drawing attention to Darfur.
Since I can’t attend the rallies across the U.S. on April 30th, I am organizing an online rally for Darfur together with many other German Bloggers.