5 posts tagged “terrorism”

US Christians Apologise [read]
A Call to repentance and resistance (Feb. 2003) [read]
Warcast for Catholics [listen]
Pastor Steve Brown [read]

The war [..] is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organising … committees [like this] for the next generation (Dr. King)

The featured address is based on the speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam, at Riverside Church in New York City. [read text]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” (J.F.K., 1962)

Iranian lawmakers called on the UN to deal with American torture and illegal holding facilities at Guantanamo Bay and other secret locations. They labelled the US troops and the CIA as terrorists.

"They (the U.S. army and the CIA) support Israel's state terrorism in its crackdown on Palestinian and Lebanese people, trained Al-Qaida and Taliban and established secret prisons in Europe, torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib,"

Sept 29, China View

Inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, or the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Monday visited a sensitive Iranian heavy water nuclear reactor in Arak, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran has blocked inspections from the IAEA to its nuclear sites since January this year after the UN Security Council imposed sanctions over the country's controversial nuclear program.

July 31st, People's Daily Online

Related Sites:

• Torture in the USA (a posting on this blog)
• IAEA - Iran in Focus
• IRCR - Guantanamo
• IRCT - Guantanamo
  

It is interesting to see what different results reporters end up with, starting from a different perspective.

The lady here of course, is dear Zelda Herzl who in her zenith, like lady luck, received a gift from the thief who had no right to be the giver in the first place. And that, her father, the mean Theodor, who punted the foul idea that a God in whom he had less than little faith, on the contrary, whom he denied the very existence of, had promised the land be given the lady by the thief who had stolen it. No wonder then, he had no friend who scholarly at that time in 1917 would stand with him, the podium to uphold by scriptures leaned against it so as to support thereupon the speaker, Theo our dear father of Zelda. Now the harlot protests much. "I knowest enough" sayeth she, "and want not more to hurt my delicate frame, with cold hard memory". Of course, she knows a lot, and we forget less than she.

Such argument, made by pimp intellectual de Columbia Universal Scientiae, of late. So eloquently unconvincing an argument to those who had ears to hear, if any there had been there, by Earl of Bollocks Bollinger in his treatise de character suicide. "'is the most researched thing in all history" or something of this kind, now how my weak and ghastly severed mind serveth me feebly, most inaccurately, I'd ask of my readers that ye do me the kindness of granting me pardon. And for his conclusion then, "no more needs to be said nor observed by any other". Again, most inaccurately volleyed he, yet caught i the gist of yon pale line of reason, most tangengial findeth the one who seeks to wander in a forest or maze on sunny afternoon, with parasol to as succour from unkindly sunlight [mp3]. Is it Denmark this time of year, for hear I the geese. Is it so, pray tell me. It reeks foul. Perchance the inhabitors of more eastern regions that seek out the foul this mid-autumn festival to annoint their tables, and make sacrifices to the elders, ancestors? Nay, surely, it be Denmark's fate as well? Nay, ye are the learned ones. The relative of the Hun hath a tradition to impart to all humanity. One of subtle depth, and refin'ed tact. When employee is about to be dismissed, at dinner table, in audience of the entire workforce, he is presented a foul, whose head faceth the benefactor (not so much the benefactor as the foul, for he is most least held so by the employer). In fact, he that receives the foul, glaring squint at him, is the one who next receives the chop, most ungraciously not from the chef, but from the host of such a banquet. It stares at him, his own pageant, such as Bollinger did prepare, and laughs him all the way out of town. Does what the dear Zelda received, this equate: intellecual wanton revelry? For her earlier setting up of the, cause, the terror and the solution most bizarre, the billions in profits that came in coffers galore, and the blood in coffers most macabre. Cry foul! Foul! Yes, foul for sure, we all are in the know. You cry foul and so did we.

Related:
Ahmadinejad Interview on CBS - 60 minutes (location: Tehran Sept 2007)

This video posted on YouTube, was shot by two Americans in Palestine on March 21st, 2004. It records the events at a protest against the Israeli wall of separation. Is the wall really being built for security reasons?

As events unfold, it becomes clear that the wall has become another point of conflict and it appears to be nothing short of a land grab. Whatever the arguments for the wall, the actions by the IDF in this video are very revealing. Is it Apartheid? Is it terror? Is any of it legitimate?

Let's talk a while about poetry, terrorism, and war. A strange mix you say? How many of you knew that the so called "white" South African poet Breyten Breytenbach, along with many other notable and talented people, were once branded as terrorist? In the years of active resistance, (sometimes referred to as "the dark years of Apartheid") there existed, ironically and sadly, more "color blindness" than today. By a strange twist of logic, Black Consciousness was branded racist and is still laregly misunderstood today. One would be forgiven for concluding sometimes, that the twist is more often a deliberate distortion than a real misunderstanding, confusion or misinterpretation. It suits many people to brand and trash ideas that pose some threat to their fragile hegemony. Indeed, nowadays, the same people who languished for years in prison for what they believed in, for their opposition to Apartheid, now face a new branding: and are often accused of being racist for expressing criticism of the government of the day.

I stumbled upon this newsletter which made for wonderful reading. I will certainly search out anything by Breytenbach in the coming months. If you will forgive me, I have extended the idea of poetic license just a bit here (in the interest of the resistance) and included some audio of Breytenbach in my playlist for you to enjoy. My advice is to sip on some "moer koffee" if you can find some, and read the text, poets against war.

It is fair to say there has been a deterioration in the international environment, both physically and morally.

Breyten Breytenbach, Potsdam, 2005