Monday 2 July 2012

Sanctions on random rich people ?!?!

A good friend of mine and her wonderful husband are newly married. She is a children's book illustrator and published children's book author in Arabic. Her books contain such beautiful, perfect Arabic writing forms that they are being used at the Harvard university Arabic language programme. She is 29 years old. He is 35. A respected and wealthy business man, with a heart of gold. Syrian through and through.

However, his company, dealing in exports and imports, are being sanctioned by the EU, for no other reason than that they are wealthy and they 'assume' he is with the government.

He actually grew up in England because his parents were forced to flee during the seventies/eighties. Does that make sense to you?

Just throw a few sanctions here and there. Let's show the world we're doing something.

Yeah. Something that makes no sense.

Why is his business suffering? Why did he have to let go of a few hundred people? I fail to understand how, if people are dying everyday and nothing changes, why the president might suddenly say,

'Ohh the economy is failing. I should really step down now'. The guy don't care. He and his family already have millions!!

What a joke.

And once again, the good people suffer. And the amazing business minded people get affiliated with a regime for no reason.

Money doesn't always equal evil.


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