Voices from the grave: The world's new Halloween reality

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_45.shtml

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Got a Halloween party to go to? Here are some character suggestions. Forget about the stereotypes. We're talking real horror here. You want ghosts? Try these.

Hunter S. Thompson. Dress as a disheveled hippie intellectual, paint the bullet holes on your forehead, and talk about snuff films and big name politicians debauching little boys somewhere in Nebraska.

Imagine how many unsettled ghosts there are who were killed in Africa from poisonous drug tests by American pharmaceutical giants. What would they look like?

Rachel Corrie. Smear the fake blood on a white blouse, dye your hair red, and talk about how it's wrong to bulldoze a person's house with a family inside simply because you believe they're an inferior species of animal. Then contemplate what it feels like to have an Israeli bulldozer crush your chest.

Have you, as an American, ever contemplated what it must have been like for a little Iraqi boy to keep asking his mother why it was they were being bombed and all their relatives were dead? There is a sad surfeit of Iraqi ghosts this Halloween, all singing the same song to every American: “Why did you kill us?”

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How 'bout a couple thousand people go trick-or-treating at the White House on Monday night as ghosts of U.S. Marines killed in Iraq chanting "What did we die for?"