Guilty Or Not ~ Fair Trial Is Needed

Brenda Martin, a Canadian who has been imprisoned in a Mexican jail since February 2006. She was arrested and jailed in a 9 x 12' cell with 11 women, nearly five years after her former employer was arrested, in what was believed to be the biggest Internet-based pyramid fraud scheme in history. Brenda was the chef for Alyn Richard Waage, owner of an investment company that turned out to be fraudulent. Waage fired Brenda in 2001 with severance pay, where she than invested the money into Waage’s business which she thought was legitimate.

Although she was charged with being a member of a criminal organization and money laundering, there has never been a trial where she has been able to present her defence. And she is not aware of any evidence being presented to prove her guilty of those charges. Despite pleas from citizens and media around the nation, the Government of Canada has failed to act in intervening in this case. Recently, Brenda was visited by former Prime Minister Paul Martin to offer support. Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa said, the trial has been delayed by legal procedures. She said her ministry was in frequent contact with the Canadian government about the case.

Finally on April 7, there was a hearing came as a complete surprise to Brenda, who was not represented by her lawyer. She said she knew the Canadian ambassador was coming from Mexico City to visit her, but it wasn't until she met with the ambassador that she was told she would be attending a hearing with the judge. The judge promised her and the Canadian ambassador to Mexico that he would try issue a ruling by April 18. However, the judge added the proviso that he may not be able to make the decision if something unforeseen arose.

"The judge told me I should take this as a good sign," Brenda said. "But I don't know. I have been made so many promises and two years later I am still here."

Am In Good Hands

It was love at first sight, when I first saw it on TV some months ago. Never thought that I would have one as I wished. Since this is my first Mac, I've taken "one to one" lessons at one of the apple shops, learned to play around with the icons as a beginner, it's awesome experience.

Yesterday, Walter, the instructor showed me how to upload my videos onto the Mac Gallery. He stressed that it'd be better to use a specific user name and password to protect my privacy, if I don't want to share my projects with other people for the time being. I did what I was told, but I felt uncomfortable while Walter himself and other people around might have glanced over to see my password easily. Hence I adjusted my position a bit in order to type in the password privately, Walter was offended. I was confused, I did exactly what he suggested to protect my privacy, but I was blamed by doing so. He said, "you're being paranoid, here is Canada, nobody is gonna watch over you." He's so powerful when he said such a thing. But at some point, what does he know about life? I laughed faintly, "you have no idea what I'd been through." He agreed, "then keep it to yourself."

Certainly I'm in good hands. That's why I can express myself freely these days, without fearing somebody may put me in the jail for what I've said or written. But I hope, I honestly hope, that Walter will learn to not judging other people, on something too complicated for him to comprehend. Compassion and empathy, that's all I'm asking.

Drama King The Engineer

"Hi there, how're you doing?"

"Great, and yourself?"

"Fine. I've heard about your dramatic romance story. By the way what're you doing now? Don't get me wrong my dear, obviously you can't make a living by writing. Not to mention you don't write well."

"Well, who needs enemy when having a friend like you. As you know, my secret admirer, the Drama King has kept me busy."

"Wow, what a nick name he's got! Is he an actor?"

"Oh, no. He's a so-called engineer but he likes playing drama very much."

"How interesting...tell me about it."

"He's in fact a grumpy old guy obsesses with women he simply cannot handle. But he's very persistent so that he wouldn't let go. He's been chasing after me for a century, at least 1/5 of the people in the Universe know about his madness. He seemed quite proud of it, though I turned him down again and again."

"Gee...what a pathetic old man! OK, how about your job?"

"Don't be surprised, I'm taking up the assignment as tour guide at the moment."

"Sweetheart, I don't mean to rude, but...a tour guide...you said? I'm completely lost!"

"But you're rude! Listen to me, I've invented some sort of adventurous tours and I'm having so much fun."

"How so? Tell me about it."

"Alright, the most popular one is called Surveillance Tour. This is how it works; while I'm touring the participants on the road, there will be actors and actress harassing the tourists by using different means. The tourists have to spot them out before the tour finished."

"It's outrageous! Harassing I don't get it?"

"For example: someone hides in the toilet takes photos, someone sits in the Jeep pretends a hero, someone plays a type recording with sirens repeatedly drives you crazy, someone talks loud and dirty makes you dizzy, someone..."

"My goodness, enough is enough. Aren't you sick of it by doing the same old tricks every single day?"

"By all means I'm sick of it, but this is part of my life! Let me tell you this, if you can't afford to do what you love, you must learn to love what you do! Don't you get it??"

"Nobody is deaf, you don't have to yell."

"You have no idea, sometimes I do have to yell to get heard! Wait a second, I have a call waiting, it's Drama King the phantom of the opera."

"Well say good luck to him then, he'd need it."

Boycott The Genocide Games

Greatest Of These Is Love

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

CORINTHIANS 13:1-4

Sound Of Sirens

Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was blogging
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the Sound of Sirens

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Near the halo of a construction site
I turned my lights off the tiffany lamp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the Sound of Sirens.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more.
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People stalking me that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the Sound of Sirens.

Fools I said you do not know
Sirens like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might screw you
Take my arms that I might slap you
But my words like Sirens everywhere
And echoed
In the hells of Sirens

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the signs said the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And Tiananmen Square
And whispered in the Sounds of Sirens.

In Memory Of Martin Luther King

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was one of the pivotal leaders of the American civil rights movement. He was a Baptist minister, and became a civil rights activist early in his career.

His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his well known “I Have a Dream” speech. Here he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement, establishing himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. He had organized and led marches for blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights and other basic civil rights. Most of these rights were successfully enacted into United States law with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King was the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.

Tragically Martin Luther King was assassinated 40 years ago on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

If I Die Before You Wake

By Dustin Evans

War Of No Choice

Alright, Dave didn't come, but I watched his show. John McCain was on, talked briefly about his agenda for the Presidential campaign. Same old same old, Letterman raised the concern of the military spending on Iraq. By giving sufficient time, I believe, John McCain is the right person to take over the aftermath. For he was the Lieutenant Commander almost got killed during the Vietnam War in 1967.

He had become a prisoner when his A-4E Skyhawk was shot down by a missile over Hanoi. He was badly injured so being tortured and interrogated in many intolerable ways, at the Hanoi's Hoa Loa Prison. Later McCain was sent to a cell, with two other Americans who thought McCain would have died very soon. Worst of all, in March 1968, McCain was put into solitary confinement, where he had detained for two years. Yet he managed to survive and was finally released in 1973. McCain was a war hero and is a patriot, his record proves it well.

It's hard to understand why a war is needed or declared until you've set foot in the war zone. Remembering President Bush spoke to the Nation after the 911, "America did not ask for this war, and every American wishes it were over. So do I. But the war is not over, and it will not be over until either we or the extremists emerge victorious. If we do not defeat these enemies now, we will leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons. We are in a war that will set the course for this new century, and determine the destiny of millions across the world."

Further reading:
http://www.johnmccain.com

Nobody's Fool

3am in the midnight, my phone in the green house rings, my parents are safe asleep. I'm aware today is the 1st of April.

"This is Hilarity and this is an emergency! I've heard you're the superstitious delegate and a dreamer. Wake up as I need your power to put a curse on the black sheep in my family!"

"Oh, give me a break and who are you trying to fool? You're the black sheep in your family."

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2pm in the afternoon, someone knocks on the door, it's unusual. I'm aware today is the 1st of April.

A good looking woman at the door who has sexy beautiful lips, "For sure you recognise me. I'm the CEO of a charitable organisation called [Foundation against Inhuman Adoption]. We're raising funds to protect the kids from being adopted by hypocrites. We need your donations to save all the kids on the planet."

"Oh, leave me alone and who are you trying to fool? You're the hypocrite who adopted the kids."

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6pm in the evening, Larry King and David Letterman say they'll come over to talk to me. I'm aware today is the 1st of April.

This time I hear Opera shouts, "Get out of here and who are you trying to fool?"