Fears that radioactive material has tainted ecosystem. By Jasper Hamill
EARTHWORMS WERE pushed into the firing line last week after a resumption of the testing of depleted uranium shells at Dundrennan.
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I wonder if Jasper only fears a tainted ecosystem because the MOD is, and has been testing the shells, on our own doorstep so to speak?
I only ask this, because the U.S. and UK military have been using such shells in Afghanistan and Iraq since the senior George Bush's Dessert Storm, after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait?
No fears expressed then about "a tainted [contaminated] ecosystem?
Are the Iraqis and the Afghans not entitled to an uncontaminated ecosystem?
Taking all things into account, it would appear they are not so entitled?
But of course the price of Oil in terms of human lives, and suffering, is a price the Oil Barons have never ever considered, no matter what the consequences, and there is no sign of a let up, because their priority is to amass profit, for that amorphous minority group, the Shareholders, and if that means their bully boys [the military] using depleted uranium tipped shells and bullets to secure their profits, then so be it!
Contaminating the ecosystem it seems, is of little account?
Mass murder, and mayhem, Bush and Co. talk about making the world safe for democracy?
Obviously Bush's idea of democracy fits in with his view of the world, but for the rest of us, it's a sham, an affront, even an obscenity to any semblance of democracy.
But sadly, the current social system is Capitalism, and everyday experience of capitalism demonstrates that the running of capitalism, is incompatible with democracy!
However, I look forward to the day when Humanity embraces a truly social democratic society, where we all have a say in the social organisation, without fear or favour.
We can call it socialism, communism, or the social commonwealth, or whatever, after all, they all mean the same thing, the social well being of us all.
Time however, is running out, and if we don't want to inherit a nuclear wilderness, we must act soon?