Aside from Harold Pinter ("Art, Kamatuoran, ug Politika"), how many of the
other nine leading figures of the contemporary European enlightenment
do you suppose would be willing to sign a susama nga sulat (mutatis
mutandis, of course) denouncing their home states, the 27 member states
of the European Union, and even the United Nations itself, over the
collective failure to lift so much as one little finger in opposition to the
mass deaths and the material and cultural destruction wrought by the
United States of America, as it embargoes, threatens, and militarily invades country after another — most recently Afghanistan and Iraq?
Buot ipasabot, tali sa usa ug siyam, ug dili apil si Pinter, kinsa labing segurado. Tag-ana.
Do you suppose that Jürgen Habermas, Václav Havel, or Bernard Henri-Levy would add his name to such a letter? Or Tom Stoppard? Maybe even all four?
What honest person could miss the fact that when this letter "Sa mga lider sa 27 ka nasod sa EU" argues that the "Europe which allowed Auschwitz and failed in Bosnia must not tolerate the murder in Darfur," many of the very same Mga estado nga miyembro sa EU happen to be engaged on the battlefields of Afghanistan (i.e., NATO), nor has a single one of them shown the independence to stand up to and opt-out of this truly global killing machine.
Kung dili karon, kanus-a? If not we, who?
You want to talk to me about the "futile posturings" of a "political class"? About the "inherited culture which sustains our shared belief in the value and dignity of the human being"? About courage versus cowardliness? Even about "European civilization"?
Unsa man ang bahin sa hingpit nga pagbiaybiay sa mga artista ug intelektwal? Tuod man, morag daghan mog nahibaloan bahin niini.
Instead why don't you try invoking the specter of real paghupay, bansaya ang imong epidemya sa kasuko sa usa ka direksyon kung asa kini nahisakop, ug tawagan ang imong 27 ka mga lider sa pagtangtang sa ilang mga duffs ug pagbuhat usa ka butang bahin sa rehimen sa Washington?
Laing butang. — Sa paghimo sa iyang kinatas-ang internasyonal nga mga krimen batok sa ubang mga nasud, mao ang Supreme International Criminal paglipot "European civilization"? Or is it pag-uswag "European civilization"?
Dili ko makahulat nga makadungog sa imong tubag.
And what might the signatories to this open letter on Darfur be advancing? Does anybody suppose that it takes any courage at all to call for sanctions to be imposed upon the leadership in Khartoum?
Akong mga maisog nga bayani!
"Let this action be our gift to ourselves and our proof of ourselves," these eminent witness-bearers and emotional tourists attest.
Apan sa publiko nga pagpirma sa ilang gibantog nga mga ngalan niini nga sulat - ug walay ikatandi nga pag-awhag nga aksyon batok sa Washington - unsa nga matang sa gasa nanghatag gyud sila?
ug para kang kinsa, sa katapusan?
David Peterson
Chicago, USA
Sa mga lider sa 27 ka nasod sa EU,How dare we Europeans celebrate this weekend while on a continent some few miles south of us the most defenceless, dispossessed and weak are murdered in Sudan?
Has the European Union – born of atrocity to unite against further atrocity – no word to utter, no principle to act on, no action to take, in order to prevent these massacres in Darfur? Is the cowardliness over Srebrenica to be repeated? If so, what do we celebrate?
The thin skin of our political join?
The futile posturings of our political class?
The impotent nullities of our bureaucracies?
The Europe which allowed Auschwitz and failed in Bosnia must not tolerate the murder in Darfur. Europe is more than a network of the political classes, more than a first world economic club and a bureaucratic excrescence. It is an inherited culture which sustains our shared belief in the value and dignity of the human being. In the name of that common culture and those shared values, we call upon the 27 leaders to impose immediately the most stringent sanctions upon the leaders of the Sudanese regime.
Forbid them our shores, our health service and our luxury goods. Freeze their assets in our banks and move immediately to involve other concerned countries.
We must not once again betray our European civilization by watching and waiting while another civilization in Africa is destroyed.
Let this action be our gift to ourselves and our proof of ourselves. And when it is done, then let us celebrate together with pride.
Umberto eco
Si Dario Fo
Gunter Grass
Jürgen Habermas
Vaclav Havel
Seamus Heaney
Bernard Henri-Levy
Harold Pinter
Franca Copper
Tom stoppar
"Sa mga lider sa 27 ka nasod sa EU," ang Independent, Marso 24, 2007
"Ang EU naporma sa landong sa Nazismo. Apan, paglabay sa 50 ka tuig, angay natong hinumdoman nga ang daotan ania gihapon kanato," Tom Stoppard, ang Independent, Marso 24, 2007
"Giatake sa mga magsusulat ang kapakyasan sa EU aron tapuson ang kapintasan sa Darfur," Cahal Milmo, ang Independent, Marso 24, 2007
"Giunsa pag-awhag ni Geldof ang mga magsusulat nga makiggubat sa Darfur," Mary Riddell, Ang Observer, Marso 25, 2007
"Darfur: Europe's leaders respond to demands for action to stop the genocide," Stephen Castle, ang Independent, Marso 26, 2007
"Kinahanglang mosulti kita alang sa mga patay ug isalikway sa usa ka epidemya sa kasuko," Tom Stoppard, ang Independent, Marso 26, 2007
update (Hunyo 27): Get a load of this:
"Si Angelina Jolie miapil sa Konseho sa Foreign Relations," Mary Green, Ang mga tawo, Hunyo 7, 2007
"Gusto ni Angelina nga Luwason ang Kalibutan," Sean Smith, Newsweek, Hunyo 25, 2007
The first of these requires no comment: The right woman joins the right outfit. In the second, it's bad enough that Newsweek insults us by referring to Jolie as an "unprecedented 21st-century entity, a tabloid star with international credibility, a 'soft news' icon commanding respect in a hard-news world." But we also find the retired U.S. General and recent Secretary of State Colin Powell — the infamous dissembler before the UN Security Council about Iraq's many "mga hinagiban sa dinaghang kalaglagan" programs and the looming threat they pose to the world — telling us that
"She's absolutely serious, absolutely informed," says former secretary of State Colin Powell. "Her work with refugees is not something to decorate herself. She studies the issues." Powell has spoken with Jolie several times over the years, and they've been honored together at benefits for refugee causes. There is, he says, no sanctimony about her. "For her, it's not about saving the world, it's about saving kids," he says. "She doesn't need this. This needed her."
Now. As someone pointed out to me, no matter how "hot" things become in certain spots in this world, there will be no mad rush among "humanitarian" intellectual- and celebrity-types to become crusading spokespeople for a Luwasa ang Gaza campaign on the order of the several "Save Darfur" campaigns now underway (and the like).
Dili usab kinahanglan nga tag-an kung unsang mga prisohan ug kampo sa mga refugee ang naa sa Ang Sekretaryo-Heneral sa UN nga si Ban Ki-moon or UN Goodwill Ambassador Jolie o ang ilang kaubang magpapanaw George Clooney ("If celebrity is a credit card, then I'm using it.") are likely to visit any time soon — and which they dili.
Apan bisan pa nga dili kaayo kinahanglan nga atong palandongon kung kini nga mga bituon sa kawanangan nga katungod sa tawo modan-ag sa ilang kahayag sa a Luwasa ang Iraq kampanya. O a Luwasa ang Afghanistan.
Hunahunaa ang usa ka celebrity gikan sa United States of America nga nagpahimulos sa iyang star-power aron mapataas ang kaamgohan sa mga tawo ngadto sa tawhanong katungod ug mga sayop sa tibuok kalibutan, hunahunaa ang iyang pagsulat sa op-ed page sa Washington Post that "What the worst people in the world fear most is justice. That's what we should deliver" — but then imagine her directing her rhetoric at the government in Khartoum, rather than the one in Washington!
"Hustisya para sa Darfur," Angelina Jolie, Washington post, Pebrero 28, 2007
So Norman Finkelstein is gikan sa.
But Goodwill Angelina is in.
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