Crying NO
I was going to write something else tonight, but my friends who are bleeping me, making little square windows flash on my screen — my friends from different sides of the world, on the other side of town, or on the other side of the divide, are saying, "Have you heard? Have you heard ...?"
Yes, I have heard. Australia commits troops to war. Bush gives Saddam 48 hours. How would Mr. Bush have reacted if a leader of another country asks him to leave the States, or else it's war?
Meanwhile, some Australians sing 'No War' for supper at the Sydney Opera House. How did they get up there?!
The Opera House chief executive Norman Gillespie said after that he condemned the action.
"While we respect the right of Australians to protest, it was a totally unacceptable way of doing it.
"To deface such a wonderful icon ... It was an act of reckless vandalism, totally unacceptable."
Honestly, if war is on your doorstep, a wonderful icon means very little if there is a possibility that it could be completely destroyed. Those tiles are replacable. I saw a poor guy whose job was to replace the tiles under the cover of dusk when I'd visited the quay.
Posted by sniffles at March 17, 2003 09:39 PM