Tuesday, January 03, 2006
World's Best Writing
Pinter details US foreign policy's bloody de facto conquest throughout the world and spanning US administrations from Reagan through the latest Bush, as "Low intensity conflict (which) means that thousands of people die but slower than if you dropped a bomb on them in one fell swoop. It means that you infect the heart of the country, that you establish a malignant growth and watch the gangrene bloom. When the populace has been subdued – or beaten to death – the same thing – and your own friends, the military and the great corporations, sit comfortably in power, you go before the camera and say that democracy has prevailed." Pinter characterizes this as "criminal outrage" in which the entire so called developed "international community" through profit participation and nuclear fear, is complicit in ignoring and allowing.
The invasion of Iraq is described as a "...bandit act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law..." and responsible for the "death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people". He qualifies Blair and Bush as "mass murderer(s)" and "war criminal(s)" who consider their own more than 2000 dead as no more than "an embarrassment".
Pinter, judged the world's best current composer of thought, concludes by volunteering to serve as a Bush speech writer and submits this example:
"God is good. God is great. God is good. My God is good. Bin Laden's God is bad. His is a bad God. Saddam's God was bad, except he didn't have one. He was a barbarian. We are not barbarians. We don't chop people's heads off. We believe in freedom. So does God. I am not a barbarian. I am the democratically elected leader of a freedom-loving democracy. We are a compassionate society. We give compassionate electrocution and compassionate lethal injection. We are a great nation. I am not a dictator. He is. I am not a barbarian. He is. And he is. They all are. I possess moral authority. You see this fist? This is my moral authority. And don't you forget it."
When the god becomes many gods in humans minds and judge them selfs better than someone else and do name calling and stuff is this not because thay can not find a true resion for there hate or judgeing ways ????Judge not and ye shale not be judged what bull o wait a golden bull or was it a cow got us the 10 comandments no wait it was a calf a tiny baby made of gold???? and if all humans rules why dont some have to fallow them in peace ????Who is the judge to say wait you have no right to hudge me i did nothing or say why do you say im evil im being just like the usa im killing off all the first people as fast and as quite as i can????O well what do i know im just a plain ol missed raced human who wants peace for all humans
Pinter, yes- if only there were more like him,of late hes been geeting increasing vocal about the dealings of Dumb and Dumber (bush and Blair). here in the Uk there was some broadsheet coverage of his speech- independent. Guardian, observer, morning Star etc.. however TV and tabloid basically neglected the story. interesting he was runner up in a recent award ceremony to mark 350 years of jewry in Britain for great British Jew of all time.
Of course the Americans and Brits don't give much attention or time or space to an affair for Peace. Where is the profit and power in that? I should imagine the percentage of Americans that know this name, Harold Pinter, and have heard his speech is very small. Just the word literature is bound to throw the Americans off. Their world has narrowed too much to be bothered with what a Nobel Peace Prize winner has to say. They are headed into a new future where these things do not fit.
