19 Dec 2013
At Mike’s funeral, Tony read out from Ecclesiastes about a time for killing and a time for war. This on the very day that the two converts to Islam were convicted of the killing of ‘Help for Heroes’ T-shirt wearing, Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks. They say they only killed a British soldier because of their killings of Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
The week before saw the death of Nelson Mandela who was feted, applauded and celebrated. Yet, he was a man of violence who had long renounced non-violence as being ineffective. Yet, Gandhi and then Martin Luther King Jnr had shown the power of non-violence. Both men got what they wanted. Mandela did too but, only after spending 27 wasted years in prison. He should have stuck to his earlier non-violence.
Mike had a rear car window sticker that said, ‘Respect for British armed forces’. Respect them as heroes, as 450 making the ultimate sacrifice and, all the soldiers serving, so nobly their Queen and Country.
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