Please, No Distractions

I was speaking to my Dad this morning - as we were both confirming that friends and family who live and travel around (or close to) London were safe - about the blasts. I expressed my concern that this could threaten the G8 summit, or at least give some the excuse to put their focus elsewhere. He then said that when you consider that a child dies every 3-seconds of poverty... Well, the point is, why do these deaths concern us and get the Politicians onto the nearest Helicopter and in front of the nearest cameras, when it's taken bloody ages for them to even talk about deaths in Africa. Is it skin-colour or proximity?

If anything - and this was my Dad's main point (in my words) - we need to strengthen our resolve to wipe out poverty in the face of these attacks. Rather than distracting us, they should bring home to us the pain of losing loved ones, the fear of living in the shadow of death and the inexcusibility of tyranny. The only valid response to the threat of death is the celebration of Life.

[via Leaving Munster, emphasis mine]