Posted by Loulou on Jul 9, 2013 | 2 comments

Two very different men…

I was looking at the Herald this morning with mama and saw the anguish on the faces of those visiting the morgue after another 50 people are dead in Cairo. A time for kitty tears because what is happening is that the army is being accused of the deaths and the army is saying, “We were being shot at–what did you expect us to do?” But those attacked were Morsi followers praying in a peaceful vigil, according to some witnesses.

And no one has the truth yet.

Why can’t tyrannical anthro leaders see how foolish they look when set alongside someone like Mr. Mandela? Don’t they ever look in the mirror in their egomaniacal states and see that they represent bloodshed, pain, agony and sadness for what they think of as their people?

The Eyptians fighting in the streets of Cairo are no one’s “people”, which is the whole point of being free and democratic and able to make one’s own personal choices for one’s life. How can so-called leaders like Morsi not get the point and as a true leader, make an attempt to reconcile the factions within Egypt so that all have a say in how the country must go forward? So that, in this case, men who are praying are not attacked by armed aggressors who not so long ago appeared to be on the side of peaceful protestors.

I’m off my tuna when I see all of this, daily, and no end in sight. And I, a lowly kitty, have no power at all to do anything positive for those who wish freedom in Egypt or anywhere, for that matter.

Today mama read me Roger Cohen’s editorial about Mandela and living in South Africa when Mr. Cohen was growing up and there was a sentence that really touched me, when he was writing about Mandela, which was that if you touch even one person, you are touching all humanity.

If this kitty rubs on one anthro’s ankles, she is rubbing on all anthros. I’m going off to find an ankle right now…