School Children in Haiti do the
Hat Dance with a Milwaukee
Brewer baseball cap Today in an email to a friend I mentioned how facing death like I did in Haiti and with the death of my son had some benefits. God’s death benefits I guess you can call them.
The big news of the day was the killing of Colonial Gadhifi of Libya. His convoy was spotted by a killer drone, fired on but he escaped. He was captured alive, tortured and then killed by of the ‘rebels’ who now in control of the country. His murder was hailed by Libyans and lauded by President of the United States called it a “victory for the revolution and by a local congressperson as “justice served”.
This is not the kind of death that I was talking about in saying “God’s death benefits.” In my opinion killing without self defense by the State in the death penalty, an unborn baby by an abortion, in war of a captured person has no benefits. It only creates more violence and killing.
The U.S “killer drones”, unmanned airplanes, kill human beings by remote control. The drone operation is controlled out of the White House and operated by the CIA. Drones have the opposite of death benefits by death liabilities. The use of drones in countries like Pakistan and Somalia, where we are not at war and drones also kills innocent people, leads to more resistance and hatred of the United States and often are used by our enemies for recruiting.
Death by neglect also has no benefits as in Haiti. One member of our delegation to Haiti wrote a poem that is used by a member in her reflections of the trip. It ties in the death of Haiti to the death penalty in the U.S.A.
Yes, my name is Troy Davis,
but my name is also
Haiti
But Haiti isn’t dead.
sentenced to death by
debt, coup, occupation, earthquake, cholera, and NGO
Haiti refuses to die.
God’s death benefits come when an individual or nation faces death and continues to live with a whole new perspective on life. This kind of dying is part of the power of nonviolence and has “death benefits.”
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