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,