Canada Free Press | 27Jun2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/articles-business/24738
The Destructors: G20 protesters
Watching TV news footage of black-clad hooligans in Toronto’s downtown
core smashing office windows recalled a scene from an episode of
Twilight Zone: The Movie; the one in which an alien creature stalks the
wing of a passenger airliner and hammers mindlessly away to eviscerate
the engine. The episode gives us little insight into the creature’s
motivation, but from its hideous appearance we may conclude it was
simply sheer malice. So, too, with the hooligans. Novelist Graham
Greene depicted such nihilistic and gratuitous youthful violence in his
1954 short story “The Destructors” with some insight, but also a sense
of limitation for fully understanding it.
In all fairness to the hooligans, their destructive lust is small
potatoes alongside that of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld’s, who gloatingly licked his chops while he described the
wholesale destructive power unleashed by bombers dropping “daisy
cutters” -- 15,000-pound bombs able to level an entire forest with a
single blast -- across the Afghan landscape.
Sincerely,
Orest Slepokura
Strathmore, Alta