If you implement policies and the
result is death, then you are a murderer. It seems quite simple to
me, but these murderers are never brought to justice, but they
should. Politicians who blithely force through policies that directly
impact on people's lives, creating misery, poverty, deprivation and
in some cases death, must be held accountable.
The recent case of a young 13 yearold girl living in Thessaloniki in Greece, who died of suspected
carbon monoxide poisoning, was not an accident. She was living with
her unemployed mother in a city of high unemployment, in a home
without electricity or any other form of heating. In Greece, high
taxes and high electricity prices and extortionate heating oil
prices, puts heating your home beyond the means of thousands of
ordinary people.
Thessaloniki is a cold city in the
winter, and left with no other means of heating her, this woman
lit a brazier in her home, sadly both she and her 13 year old
daughter were over come by the fumes. The woman came round, but sadly her
daughter was dead. Greece, a small country, is in the EU, one of the
richest economic blocks on the planet, but it kills its citizens by
putting heating beyond their means. This is not just abhorrent, it is
totally unacceptable, why should people freeze to death or die from
carbon monoxide poisoning in the midst of opulence? No doubt in
Thessaloniki, like other cities in Europe, there will be large posh
homes with heat going through the roof, there will be shopping malls
with heat pouring out their doors, but down the road a young girl
dies because her mother can't afford to heat their home. The system
stinks and has to be demolished and a decent system of humanity
created in its place.
