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The swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs Anna Lindh, was attacked and stabbed yesterday afternoon when she was out shopping. She was without bodyguards. Despite intense and competent surgery since late wednesday afternoon and all through the entire night, her life could not be saved. Anna Lindh died 5:29 am today thursday morning, swedish time. She was 46 years old.
Anna Lindh was a socialdemocrat and very popular among her own party colleagues as well as among her opponents. She was a colorful individual in the european political sphere and always made an impression on all the people she met all over the world. She was the unquestionable candidate, and the only candidate really, for the job as the next Prime Minister of Sweden when our current one, Göran Persson, steps back.
Anna Lindh was known for her openess with reporters and ordinary people but insisted at the same time in keeping her private life and her family life as normal as possible. She said "no thanks" to late night cocktail parties with ambassadors because she wanted to be with her family. It wasn't unusal that she referred to her kids in her speeches. She wanted space in her private life and was often seen doing personal errands without bodyguards. This made her public life a little more private, but it was als the reason to why someone was in the end able to get to her and murder her.
I admired Anna Lindh a lot and I looked forward to having her as our next Prime Minister. She would have made us proud and would have been an amazing ambassador for our country, just as she was as Minister of Foreign Affairs. It just makes me sick that someone not only assault the swedish people by attacking and killing one of our most important representatives, but also that someone finds in themselves being able to kill this brilliant and beautiful woman - a mother and a wife. It just makes me want to cry....
Why?
Anna Lindh (1957 - 2003) R.I.P.
Anna Lindh was a socialdemocrat and very popular among her own party colleagues as well as among her opponents. She was a colorful individual in the european political sphere and always made an impression on all the people she met all over the world. She was the unquestionable candidate, and the only candidate really, for the job as the next Prime Minister of Sweden when our current one, Göran Persson, steps back.
Anna Lindh was known for her openess with reporters and ordinary people but insisted at the same time in keeping her private life and her family life as normal as possible. She said "no thanks" to late night cocktail parties with ambassadors because she wanted to be with her family. It wasn't unusal that she referred to her kids in her speeches. She wanted space in her private life and was often seen doing personal errands without bodyguards. This made her public life a little more private, but it was als the reason to why someone was in the end able to get to her and murder her.
I admired Anna Lindh a lot and I looked forward to having her as our next Prime Minister. She would have made us proud and would have been an amazing ambassador for our country, just as she was as Minister of Foreign Affairs. It just makes me sick that someone not only assault the swedish people by attacking and killing one of our most important representatives, but also that someone finds in themselves being able to kill this brilliant and beautiful woman - a mother and a wife. It just makes me want to cry....
Why?
Anna Lindh (1957 - 2003) R.I.P.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
