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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Sunday, September 5 2004, 16:28:01 (CEST)
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I decided to end my involvement in Adelita`s life and family. I left them in their cardboard shack on a small rise overlooking the river that passes through their pueblo. I left her, her two daghters, one with a child of her own and the three young boys of Adelita. The last thing I did for them was buy bicycles for her three boys...and those bicycles forced me to stop.

On my first two visits to her village I went alone...Gringo driving big car...to a village where there are no police..where the men setlle things themselves and you`re found downriver...if at all. The men looked at me closely...too closely so I took a female friend with me from then on. Soon after meeting her Adelita addmitted that the man who was there sometimes was now the head of her household..she said she`d divorced her previous husband, who threw her and their children out of the modest house she`d borrowed from a government bank to build and was living there now with his mistress. She wasn`t married to the next guy but increasingly we were forced to deal with him in our plans to build them a small home with a real bathroom and get Adelita set up with some means of working to support her children. We even discussed the possibility of getting them a house in larger town and setting her up with a push cart or small store. But everything now had to go through her new man..and I was concerned that he too would dump them all when it suited him and possibly take away anything we managed to help her build.

But we still were working on doing something when my lawyer suggested I had better pull back..remove myself entirely and leave it up to Adelita to come to her office to continue what we started. Another client of her`s was in some possibly serious trouble over a bicycle he`d given to a neighbor boy here in town. He`s a Gringo and his Mexican girlfriend, from whom he was trying to break up had told the police that he was a child molester and used the gift of the bicycle to back her claim. In Mexico, in outlying areas where there are no police or courts you can be hanged outright for two things..stealing cattle or horses...and child molesting...two things I`d already been charged with by the Hole in The Head Gang in their desperate attempt to have me jailed, deported, discredited or hanged. Both charges, or complaints rather, were tossed out..not only for no evidence but because the officials here were in contact with U.S. Marshalls in the States and knew I was helping arrange for Lew Garcia..the escaped American convict neighbor of mine to be arrested and taken back to prison...I`d turned over to the DA a letter given to me by someone who stopped believing these people, written in Lew`s hand detailing just what their plan for getting rid of me was. Add to that one of them had gone to the village nearest my place and told the women I was a convicted rapist...with the intention of getting their men to throw me into the same river.

All things considered, my lawyer argued...especially the three bicycles that caught her attention...I had better not go to their village again..for if the new man wanted to, he could acccuse me of having designs on all those children of Adelita`s and I`d be dead...or if not be in a helluva bind as those old charges might be recalled and the whole thing get out of hand..so I stopped and Adelita never came back to the lawyer...

I have a feeling that out in those villages in Iraq, where there were no real police to speak of..people settled things among themselves and between villages. As Westerners attacked the nation more and more..rumors and gossip could have raised anxiety and fears to intolerable levels. Whereas they had lived there for centuries..the new attacks by Christian nations must have frustrated Muslims villagers no end and with no one else to lash out at..Christians among them or concentrated in villages must have presented a handy target..and the Chritians knew it.

I think this is what drove them to abandon their homes and run to the big cities or leave alltogether. When you`re Christian and Christians are killing your countrymen and women and children..no matter how you condemn these acts..there will always be some Muslims who won`t be satisfied..who`ll look for excuses to vent their anger over unrelated matters...maybe a dispute about water or a path across a pasture that would be a minor thing elsewhere devoid of centuries of antagonism between gods...but in that place at this time, could be blown out of all proportion.

There were probably those who feared their Christian neighbors would collaborate with any attack nearby..as they`d seen Christians help the British before...in any case and however it actually happened, Christian families would have felt exposed..insecure...targetted or soon to be...and with no police around, they being Muslims to a man as well...the situation probably got too tense to bear.

It didn`t help any when Americans went to war against everyone BUT the real perps..plus the fact that they`d been waging a most illegal and brutal war against their nation for 13 years already. All you have to do is imagine a village of Muslim Americans in upstate New York..surrounded by Christians...with a war being conducted against America by Muslim nations, to understand what the Christians in Iraq felt.

But once again the real causes are overlooked in favor of blaming the effects..that Christians in Iraq felt vulnerable and that Muslims in Iraq felt rage towrds Christians, even those of their own people, is understandable given the facts..given the war brought to Iraq by Christians...but instead the war is overlooked in favor of claims that Muslims ALWAYS hated their Christian neighbors..which is a Lie..the BIG one.

And who would the Christians sell to? They left, no doubt, hoping to be able to come back some day...and so didn`t think of selling away their property...just on the CHANCE they would be able to reclaim it some day if things ever cooled down. It is a fragile wish...of course the lands would be seized..why not? Who is obeying the Law in Iraq..or among nations that villagers have to be held to a strict accounting?

And into all of this comes Narsai and his self-promoting bandwagon..expensive pots clanking..state-of-the-art kitchen tools at the ready to make it possible for the villagers to return. With Iraq getting worse daily...with resentment at Christian foreigners seething..they pick THIS time to insist those Christians return to their villages..with things now WORSE than they have ever been..without a cook-off to get America to leave...while still supporting the murder of Iraq with their tax dollars..they wnat to spend a few bucks one night to get those people BACK into harm`s way.

This isn`t nation building..it`s Narsai building. Anyone who supports the idea of returning those villagers to a place they had every good reason to run from..while doing NOTHING to stop the causes that MADE them run..is merely using them and setting them up with no thought to their safety or needs...and of course that`s the case here...or we would have at least COMPLAINED at the implementation of the policies whose effects SENT them running.

Eat hearty.

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