News Commentary: My 5 cents

3 pieces of news I heard in the past week that got a bit of emotion and opinion out of me in descending order…

News #3: shootings in the United States
Random shootings in churches and malls across the US in addition to what we’re now familiar with-- schools, really make me wonder why the people in the US act in such fashion! The cynical me that really hate US’ aggressive foreign policies immediately commented on the fact that the US government should invest money into their own education system rather than spending so much money invading other countries because seriously, it seems like their own citizens will end up killing each other before George Bush can put the American flag on oil rich countries’ soil. Why can Americans own guns? That might contribute to their random killings!

News #2: The commemoration of the Nanking Massacre
Today is the anniversary of Nanking Massacre that happened a long time ago, and whenever I see the pictures portrayed in the media; people being buried alive and women brutally raped and killed, it would stir up emotion of pain and horror within me. I have nothing against Japanese citizens, what angers me is the Japanese government’s denial the invasion of Nanking happened! I believe that for my grandparents’ generation, they will hold a lot of anger and hatred for Japanese because a lot of them have suffered under their brutality; for my generation, speaking for myself, I would say, I have nothing against Japanese people as a race, but am definitely angered by the Japanese government’s ignorance of this event. Do they think 300,000 people will choose to be tied up and used as gun shooting targets, or like to lie down in the dirt and be willingly buried alive, or that the women choose to willingly be raped and humiliated? From the whole Nanking Massacre, what angers me is that back then, it doesn’t even seem like Japan wanted to invade Nanking and colonized it; rather, they are trying to terminate a race or perish Nanking of Chinese people, because or else, why would they randomly shoot women and children in wild abundance? All the 300,000 people killed in Nanking were civilians that weren’t armed!

News #1: Outrageous alternative healing options to cancer
We feel the most helpless when we are told we have some form of terminal illnesses, and at the current trend is for people to seek alternative form of medicine practices. Recently on TV, a form of alternative healing has gain light in the media, the creator claims that by using a little hammer and whacking a doll that has listed a person’s veins and body parts, that would help in reducing your tumor or other form on illnesses residing in that specific part! This is just beyond outrageous to me, and the creator (from the US) or the president of the HK chapter has the nerve to go on TV advertising their effectiveness! The creator even goes so far as to use an infrared flashlight and shine it to the doll claming that is the same as undergoing radiation for the actual person! Apparently, his newest form of “helping” is towards people with diabetes. He claims that when he knocks on the doll, after 20 minutes, the person’s sugar level will go down, oh, and by the way, he ONLY charges $50USD per call. I understand that when people become desperate or that conventional form of medicine cannot help them, there is a tendency to reach out and buy any kind of hope that is offered, but for the people claming their method work or telling people to just follow his instructions rather than undergoing an operation just anger me beyond comprehension. Rather than giving someone hope, you are very well making a hopeful situation hopeless! I highly doubt that if the creator of that stupid plastic doll will just knock on that dumb doll rather than undergoing an operation if he finds out he has cancer!