Very frustrated

In response to some of my users demands that Haloscan (the comments section) was not working properly, I have tried to rectify the situation but to no avail. I have been very frustrated with trying to put Haloscan back in, and even called in the technical experts (my little bro who is a computer whiz). We will have to do without the comments section via Haloscan, and I will keep you posted. In the meanwhile, you can still post a comment as Anonymous, and put your name in there somewhere, so we know who you are.

Ara-rat

There have been some confusing reports coming out about the Palestine leader, Yasser Arafat. I saw him alive and well when he boarded onto the plane, then heard he was dead, then a news report said he was actually brain dead, and in today's news it said he was no longer brain dead. Whatever the case is, the Palestine leader is in trouble.

Even more the worry is, what will will happen to Palestine if Arafat dies? There would be seem to be no leader in place , although my understanding was that Arafat is no longer the actual "offical leader", as the Israelis refused to deal with him in the ROADMAP TO PEACE agreement (which lasted a whole day). Arafat or as his enemies call him "Ara-rat", is hated by his enemies very deeply and much loved by his people. ALthough he aint' offically in charge, he is much like how the Rock in WWF is the people's Champion. He still has a wide influence in the exiled State.

Seriously, I am slightly concerned about the situation because there may be a power struggle within the PLO to establish who is in control and also just about what will happen to the whole Palestine/Israeli situation. Arafat never caved in to Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip and reminds me of that line in that Gangstarr song "we like cockroaches, never dying, always living". There's no doubt in my mind that he orchestrated a lot of the rightwing factions terrorist attacks.

But we must think, what drives these people to this and Arafat to condone such actions? When you got a tank on your doorstep, your people are living in concentration camps, foreign troops are patrolling your borders, you don't even have your own State, and you have a hostile government that could assassinate at you at time, the UN has stated that should be your country but the other side REFUSES to move, you might go a little crazy and take extreme measures.

I am not excusing or justifying any terrorist actions taken by Arafat, but what I am trying to get at, him and his people had nothing to lose. I am totally against terroism as a means of making political statements. I just think that the world could be a better place if we could work together in peace building. But then, is this wishful thinking? Am I too idealistic?

Just lastly, someone at uni raised this conspiracy theory: Arafat was alive and well when he boarded the plane. As soon as he landed in the French Hospital, he was pretty much brain dead. Did someone at the hospital have something to do with this? Were they secret Israeli spies posing as doctors that may have done a hand in the leaders mysterious deterioation. Remember, Arafat has as many enemies as friends and the Israeli spy service is one of the best in the world. HMMMMMMMMMMMM .........Soemthing to ponder about.

Just like in the JFK assassination, there must have been a second "doctor". DOCTOR DEATH!!!!!


Donate some blood

What's the deal with Justice Shaw? In case you didn't know, this dude was a Supreme Court judge and was drunk and crashed into another car. He then fled the scene and ended up in hospital. He had a blood sample taken and was supposed to be given to the police. Somehow, his blood sample went missing??!!. Normally, what happens is that there are two blood samples. One goes to the police, and the person donating the blood, takes the other one.

There has been a furious uproar about this. Firstly how did it go missing and secondly, should Justice Shaw hand over the other sample?. Of all the samples that were meant to be in the box, his was the only to go missing. This is dodgy. On a scale of dodginess of 1 to 10, it's like 15 i.e. it's through the roof. I have it on good authority that once the sample goes in, it stays in. It don't go nowhere but straight to the police. I still believe that its possible that a policeman along the way took it. BUt my source (obviously a former cop) has told me that the only possibility was that the doctor didn't put the sample in.

I told you, there is a second doctor involved.

The other HUGE issue is, should he hand it over? Shaw has eventually decided to hand it over, but he should have done it without hesistation. As a Judge, he of all people must abide by the law. Why? Because the law applies equally to everyone, but a judge must also not be above the law. A JUDGE SETS THE LAW! He hands out the sentences daily. He decides who should win a case and who should lose. He should set an example to the rest of the Australian people. He has no legal obligation to hand it over, but a MORAL obligation. SHaw doesn't have to hand it over, but if he wants to maintain respect in the judiciary system and in the law itself, he's gotta do the right thing. Just like how the wrestler the ROCK goes "because the ROCK says so". In this case, it's "because Judge Ho said so".

I want to leave with a word of wisdom from Judge Ho:

EVERYONE IS EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW. BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.