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LYRICS: 'PHILOSOPHY'

WHAT RIGHT? WHAT WRONG?
IT'S REALLY HARD TO TELL.
IN A WORLD BUILT FOR THE STRONG
FOR THE WEAK LIFE IS HELL.
WHAT IS GOOD, WHAT IS BAD,
I DON'T REALLY KNOW.
IT JUST MAKES ME FEEL SO SAD
THAT THE PEOPLE ACT SO.

SO I HIDE IN MY ROOM
AND I WATCH THE WORLD GO BY.
AS I SIT AND SIGH.

The Burmese government is acting despicably by refusing to let in aid
experts and workers from other countries to bring emergency relief to victims of cyclone Nargis. Of course, no one is surprised. This is a military junta that has a clear record of brutal suppression of free speech and human rights abuses, including forced child labor, kidnapping children to enlist them in the military, using rape as a weapon of war, and carrying out a campaign of genocide against Karen and other ethnic minorities.

Now, with the United Nations raising its estimate of the number of people severely affected by the cyclone up to 2.5 million, the world is faced with a serious moral question. Can we allow a ruthless military dictatorship to continue to act in a way that denies aid that is necessary for millions of people to survive? Can we allow a regime that is despised by its own people let millions die although help is available? In the end, the moral argument is clear that for a government to willfully refuse to allow help to reach millions of dying people is the same as willfully killing them. And again, we must remember the millions that have already been killed or displaced by the Burmese military simply because of their ethnicity.

We should strongly support British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and those in the United Nations who suggest that the U.N. should act under its "responsibility to protect" doctrine, which is intended to apply to cases of genocide. They are right in suggesting that the current actions of the Burmese military junta are as reprehensible and simply intolerable.

The Burmese government is right to be afraid to let outsiders into Burma. They have pushed the governments and people of the world to their limits of being able to repress their revulsion at the junta's willingness to cause the people of Burma to suffer for their own selfish goals.

I hope that everyone who reads this will feel compelled to write or call their representatives and urge them to call for action to save the Burmese people, with or without the support of the ruling junta.


The following were my most recent sources for this writing, although there are many news stories available now.
1 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/on-the-run-with -the-karen-people-forced-to-flee-burmas-genocide-432267.html
http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/10/burma-1016.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7399180.stm