No smoke without fire

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs… you’ll be a man,” from If by Rudyard Kipling.
Had I not watched the news about the burning of Yosemite National Park (USA), the recent fires in Spain, the fire at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the destructive fire at Marsden Park (NSW); had I not seen the burning of the Blue Mountain, I wouldn’t bother and would simply hold my peace.
The world is at war.
And, what many peace-loving people throughout the world fail to understand is that the War on Terror is a new kind of war to which Australia has subscribed.
It is an unprecedented kind of warfare in the history of mankind.
Although we know that arsonists set fires for a multitude of reasons, we wonder whether all these fires that are destroying NSW have been caused by lightning or some other natural phenomenon.
The September 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building was carried out from inside America.
I’m not an alarmist but simply a whistle blower who verily believes that every single big fire should be treated as suspicious and should be thoroughly investigated to find out the real causes.
In the same breath, I personally feel sick and tired whenever I hear people, including some fire safety authorities, naively talk abut wild fires or bushfire season.
I trust that the newly elected Australian Government can keep its head when others are losing theirs.
Because, if all these fires were the work of Mother Nature due to very hot temperatures, every day Africa would be burning.
Eliezer Francois,
Endeavour Hills.