Well tha was detour a tour de forcehadnt seen
that coming
it followed Harold Pinters words near the beginning of his Nobel Peace
Prize for Literature speech 7December 2005
Our beginnings never know our ends. not religiously Ahmen
Mind
the date
“Many thousands, if not millions, of people in
the United States itself are demonstrably sickened, shamed and angered by their
government’s actions, but as things stand they are not a coherent political
force – yet. But the anxiety, uncertainty and fear which we can see growing
daily in the United States is unlikely to diminish.”
Pinter uttered that at the 40:20
minute-mark
He coud have been speaking to Americans
now
at 10:40
minute-mark
“Political language, as
used by politicians, does not venture into any of this territory since the
majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in
truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is
essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the
truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds
us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.”
13:15
“But my contention here is that the
US crimes in the same period have only been superficially recorded, let alone
documented, let alone acknowledged, let alone recognised as crimes at all. I
believe this must be addressed and that the truth has considerable bearing on
where the world stands now. Although constrained, to a certain extent, by the
existence of the Soviet Union, the United States’ actions throughout the world
made it clear that it had concluded it had carte blanche to do what it liked.
“Direct invasion of a sovereign state
has never in fact been America’s favoured method. In the main, it has preferred
what it has described as ‘low intensity conflict’. Low intensity conflict 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. This was a commonplace
in US foreign policy in the years to which I refer.”
24:00
“The United States supported and
in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world
after the end of the Second World War. I refer to
Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines,
Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States
inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.
“Hundreds of thousands of deaths took
place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all
cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place
and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.
“It never happened. Nothing ever
happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It
was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic,
constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about
them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical
manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal
good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”
25:55
“I put to you that the United States is without
doubt the greatest show on the road. Brutal, indifferent,
scornful and ruthless it may be but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is
out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self-love. It’s a winner.
Listen to all American presidents on television say the words, ‘the American
people’, as in the sentence, ‘I say to the American people it is time to pray
and to defend the rights of the American people and I ask the American people to
trust their president in the action he is about to take on behalf of the
American people.’”
*sigh*
he sifted through Pinters speech extracted paragraphs he felt pertinent disarmingly honest
hed recommend everyone to sift through
it themselvesencourage
them to listen to it or to read the transcript as Pinter speaks
it is an extraordinary Nobel speech and
one he only uncovered by reading The Nations “Wallace Shawn Reflects on His Art
in the Age of Antagonism”
1239, reggaefriday,
10 7. 26
Pinters speech https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/lecture/
Doors
The End https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pRGoSbYHQE
