pimlico revisited

Pimlico revisited

By David Verveer

Do you remember the movie on a neighborhood of London which declared independence? It was a nice sweet and very unlikely story, about historical rights, and individuals which attacked the establishment.

Based on this idea, I continued to fantasize, and far from any reality I composed the continuation of an dependant Pimlico, or for that purpose, Vatican, San Marino, Monaco or Singapore, in short a small identity which is sovereign, living on the side of its much larger neighbors, and for the purpose of my story, the government of the mini state is officially at war with its neighboring country.

Let us create now an impossible situation, where the independent mini state is totally depending on the supply of food, energy, etc on its big neighbor, but not with standing the total dependency, the mini state's army bombards daily an neighboring area with rockets, making the local populations life a hell.

The large neighboring country responses with army actions, trying to prevent the rocket lancers to fire their weapons, but of course finding them between a population of more than a million people, is an impossible target.

Clearly, throwing bombs on innocent population, in order to stop them sending the rockets, is forbidden by humanitarian opinions of the world, thus this pestering continues uninterrupted without punishment, at danger of toppling the government, by those who insist on whipping the mini state from the earth.

You will ask yourself, what does this mini state want in order to stop the rocket firing, the answer is simple; they want to destroy the neighboring country, kill or at least banish its population. O,K, but why does the large state continue to supply food , energy and humanitarian needs to the mini state, the only answer is of course, the public pressure of the world opinion.

It is very easy to be large and humanitarian, when you live far away, and not next door to rocket lancers. You remember my example deals with for example, Monaco bombarding Nice, or the Vatican Rome, or Pimlico London town. A large military action will cost many lives, most of them innocent of any wrong doings, politically, there is no influence on the bandits, they know that when eventually will be destroyed by a large military action, the good world opinion will start to protest and blame the attacking forces for using illegal and un necessary force.

In order to make my story more comprehensible, we will call the mini state Gaza, and the city attacked by rocket, Sderot, but we could also call it Hezbollah and Kiriath Shemona. Funny don't you think, and far fetched, such things could not happen in London or Rome, but wait, impossible things happen, even in civilized Europe.