BANGKOK (AP) — A massive airdrop of paper birds intended to promote peace failed to halt violence in Thailand's restive south, with a spate of new attacks Monday that targeted soldiers and local officials.Do you think the writer who wrote "failed to halt violence" was laughing when he wrote it? I know I laughed when I read it.
The bombings, shootings and arson attacks came hours after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Sunday's airdrop of nearly 100 million Japanese-style origami cranes over the predominantly Muslim region had achieved an "enormous, positive psychological effect" toward peace.Except for the fact that it touched off murder and property destruction, it was a great success.
Encouraged by the government, Thais across the country — Cabinet ministers, office workers, schoolchildren and even convicts — folded more than 130 million birds to promote peace in the south. Approximately 30 million will be delivered by land.The land-delivered ones are probably flightless paper birds, like penguins or ostriches.
And here I thought California had all the whimsical peace nuts.
I was watching the late news last night and there was a story about hundreds of Canadian airport security uniforms being "lost and/or stolen"
I thought - what is it? Lost then stolen? Stolen then lost?
Kumbaya pacifism strikes again.
Yes, God forbid anyone promote peace.
I'm all for peace, but I think the cause of peace takes a hit when people make it ridiculous.
+J.M.J+
Promoting peace is wonderful: "Blessed are the peacemakers...." But it should be done in a way that at least has some chance of success. Dropping millions of folded papers on people from the sky is not such a method. It's almost like an appeal to magic, in fact.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono thought they could "promote peace" by staying in bed in a hotel room, or giving acorns to world leaders. That didn't work either.
In Jesu et Maria,
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