Help those who are truly in need, now, and confront the
problem as we go.... honestly. I will repeat in this piece. Sorry!
On Numbers.... I'm not so sure.
At least the council could say how many people they are currently caring for,
and get them to collate any others being helped outside the council's
operations, by the police, red cross, other charities, NHS etc... that way we
know who is alive, and we will find out the rest when the investigation is
complete….
Do we need to know before the survivors, and the families of the deceased and
missing?
Need to know.
Privacy and respect is not secrecy.
The fire investigators do need to collect evidence and
examine that building in detail, and they will. The Fire Fighters investigation
will do to the best of their ability and expertise, and they have solid
backing.
We know that a criminal investigation is under way, with
much of the evidence in the public domain already, That is proceeding. The
survivors will need time,space, privacy, support in every way, ensuring that
the helpers are always listening, and hearing the survivors.
For this, the Survivors immediate need is for us, The State
and The People, to hold them first in our deliberations - they would probably
suggest we hold all those living in high-rise or high density social housing,
by protecting their peers in high rises elsewhere, taking immediate action, use
the army if need be, they can be excellent builders....
I don't give a hoot what Government does it,minority, dodgy majority, unity, cross party whatever. Just do it.
This would remove the fear many survivors will be
experiencing for the hundreds of thousands in high rise high density social
housing, easing their burden somewhat in a tangible way.....
A National Infrastructure Project, carried out by the
people, on fixed fee transparent social contracts... fully funded. We make this
happen. Peacefully. Firmly. It is our money. Focus.
They also need appropriate accommodation, close to each
other, clear lines of communication, privacy, technical assistance on all
material issues, income, access to professional quality counseling, access to medical and nutritional support, access to
health gyms, saunas, all healing and body work resources; they will also need to
resume life living as families, as neighbors, as schools, as clubs and
associations as soon as they are ready.
The entire population around the towers, those who live in
the area will be traumatised too, many struggling, each to a different degree,
in different ways...
The need is huge, and they don't need energy diverted from
that... by rage, or violence or blame game, venting etc (it's ok to to express
that anger, and it's meaning, it is felt and real - smashing things probably
won't help the Survivors and others afflicted by this horrific man made
disaster.) before all the evidence is up, and they are ready for the next step.
They matter.
The investigations will feed into an inquest, which can be
had once the full toll is known, and all the survivors are ready to participate
in the inquest. That could be a few months from now.
Then, wherever criminal actions are clear, prosecutions must
follow. And be severe. The police have cautioned that they will make arrests if
the see evidence that warrants any arrests. I think they will want to do this
and do the job well, and bring justice.
Then, and only then should a Public Inquiry start.
And we will be ready for that.
And it will not be a
Chilcott, or a Hillsborough.
We will go beyond
party politics, and get to the heart of the matter.
Our intent must be, among other things, Government by the people (who pay the wages and costs) instructing a national team of
elected deliberaters and officials to host the public good, and engage in an adult,rational, emotionally intelligent discourse on Governance and the needs of a people, as a learning rather than adversarial
team league politics. We can make that happen.
Kick political football right out of the field!
To be honest, I don't think that's too much to ask, do you?
That's the hope.
The rage that so many died such horrific deaths, burned
alive even as they tried to escape, or save their own children or brother... or
granny..over human action or inaction. is understandable, and meaningful.
It
cannot go away.
It is here.
It's real.
It's how it is.
For the survivors It's indescribably
harsh.
And we who are less directly affected, and are together, so
to speak, we gotta be strong enough to hold the survivors, and the families of
those who have died, and their communities, these people who are alive and who are now before us, and our entire
community most move to enfold and hold it all together, to make it so that those people can
feel safe, that we are here to nurture, to counsel, to listen and hear, until
they feel they can continue, that they need not worry about material needs, and
that they will remain as a community, as long as they so wish, in the same
locale..... in sound accommodation, rather than high rise hotels, and all else that they need. Make their material worries vanish, and hold them.
They will want to cook for themselves, do their own laundry, use the cash to buy what they need, and much else besides. They will want to establish routines, and to live on.
And each of those things that they do that restores their sense of autonomy, of continuing, will help them deal with this, as long as we are walking with them, always listening, checking what we have heard so they know they are being heard.
They will want to tell their stories, to piece it together, to understand it and share that process with those around them, being strong in it together.
They are all vulnerable, yet powerfully human...
And we gotta make healthy social change the coolest thing on
the planet.
How cool is Healthy Governance? The ultimate cool, baby!
Where the elected employees of the people hear the peoples instructions, and
carry them out, funded by the people via taxation, with a mutual feedback
process between people and People's Service so everyone knows what's happening,
and it works. A social economy. For people.
Kick the political footballs into the ditch! That is our job now.
And the pain is still here. The horror, the fear,the shame. The confusion. The rage. The despair. I
t doesn't go away when I am
happy, well just chilling, grooving... it's still there. I have to carry my
bit, and share my part of the community's.... we must be strong for all the survivors.
Everywhere. Let us not burden them.
Each so small, yet the love of the grass roots is so big
that vast herds of buffalo can run over it, eat it, and shit on it, all over it
and it still grows!
Makes The State look really small indeed.
Not what they were thinking when they wrote their small
state bullshit economic theories. Small Minded State. Not what we wanted, not
what we want.
It's really good to know you.
That you're out there, recycling, and cycling onwards.
Musicing onwards. Living onwards. You, All the good, decent, stressed or happy, ordinary folk who make this world work, who are this society, and the majority pattern is that we present the best of our behaviour, and we are kinder than any Government.
All praise to the ancestors. All praise to our descendants.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
"Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe"
Thank you for reading this blog. All we need to do is be really honest, responsive to the evidence we find,and ready to reassess when new evidence emerges. The rest is easy.
