TILTING AT WINDMILLS: MY HEART BLEEDS

Friday, August 7, 2009

MY HEART BLEEDS

Samantha Orobator, a mere 20 years of age, has been returned to the UK from Laos to serve her life term for smuggling drugs.

Obviously Laos isn’t totally heartless.

In a statement on her arrival in the UK she told the media: “I am enormously relieved and happy to be back on British soil. It has been an unimaginable nightmare.”

Is that the same nightmare that would have been endured by those who used the drugs she was carrying?

She escaped the death penalty because she became pregnant in an all-female jail.

So the child wasn’t conceived from a loving relationship but the need of Samantha Orobator to escape her terrible fate.

I expect in years to come her child will look back on her life and declared: “It has been an unimaginable nightmare.”

My heart truly bleeds…

1 comment:

MR said...: Esta noticia es impresionante.; August 8, 2009 at 9:06 AM

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS

Sancho Panza is much less learned but a good deal saner than his master.

"At this point they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that are on that plain.

"Fortune," said Don Quixote to his squire, as soon as he had seen them, "is arranging matters for us better than we could have hoped. Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth."

"What giants?" said Sancho Panza.

"Those you see there," answered his master, "with the long arms, and some have them nearly two leagues long."

"Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. "What we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the vanes that turned by the wind make the millstone go."

"It is easy to see," replied Don Quixote, "that you are not used to this business of adventures. Those are giants, and if you are afraid, away with you out of here and betake yourself to prayer, while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat."”