Last September when nearly 10,000 monks clad in their red robes, peacefully marched through the streets of Myanmar protesting a despotic regime, the world watched in horror as the military junta cracked down on the monks by beating them, spraying them with teargas, and jailing them.

Foreign governments where helpless to protect the monks because the dispute in Myanmar is sort of like watching a bad marriage, you don’t want to watch a guy beat his wife, but at the same time it’s a domestic dispute and not an international one.

Of course when citizens of a country are defenseless against the regime that is supposed to protect them they turn to their faith and superstitions to give them strength.

Which is why it’s not surprising that after last week’s earthquake which killed nearly 40 thousand people in China along with Myanmar’s cyclone that has killed over 130 thousand people; each respective country is alive with rumors that these natural disasters were not so much natural, but supernatural retributions against the despotic regimes.

But because both countries have large uneducated populations, rumors like these often lead to civil unrest. That is why China actually made it illegal to spread rumors.

Which only has me wondering why do we spend so much money developing nuclear weapons when natural ones seem to be so much more effective?

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