When
we hear that Gerry Adams was up for the Piece/Peace
prize, I seem to wander into that place I am so familiar
with and that is 'confusion-land'.
I
linger here wondering do they mean PIECE, as a piece
of the action, piece of the monetary benefits or a
piece of any power that he can stick into his ego
pockets?
If that is the case then I need no longer to be confused
and if there is a prize for such a thing then I would
agree, sure he should be on the top of that list !!!!
Now,
if they mean PEACE then I am doomed to linger here
in confusion land?
Although does not this Nobel Peace Prize carry a bit
of contradiction in itself. After all, to name any
peace prize after the inventor of dynamite is at least
a tinkling of confusion. Throw in torpedoes and land
mines and the high loss of life working on these tools
of destruction, the largest arms works in the world
and his factories around the world to manufacture
dynamite.
Now,
there are those who say, "Oh he was smart enough
to see his wrong way." Well, yes, people can
change and that is a good thing, but SMART, I kind
of wonder about that when he made a statement like
this:
"My
dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand
world conventions. As soon as men will find that
in one instant,whole armies can be utterly destroyed,
they surely will abide by golden peace." Alfred
Nobel
I
guess we have to find some justification in all these
about-faces. Maybe now Elton John can now say, "I
am not queermy husband is," or a Lord Mountbatten
book on The Heights of My West of Ireland Holiday,
a Thatcher book on 'Beauty Hints.'
I
guess the pendulum of changes has its swings and we
live through it, but in Adams' case, don't you get
the feeling, 'Hey Tarzan or his ape friends never
had this many swings'!
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