This Commentary is addressed to Daniele Bennett, the blue-eyed girl whose photo is on the front page of today’s (Jan. 5. 2006) International Herald Tribune. The girl, whose father died in a West Virginia coal mine not many hours ago.
In the Tribune article we read: “A grim-faced mining company official told several hundred friends and relatives of the miners , gathered in a small Baptist church near the mine, that all but one of the 12 trapped men had, in fact, died… ‘People who had been praising God a minute before were cursing him’, …” Of course, the word “him” refers to the official. However, as humans with the ability to think rationally we might ask: If the Divine Father loves his children why did he kill Daniele’s father? Naturally, this is the wrong question to ask. It was not any Divine entity that killed Daniele’s father. It was the brutal greed of humans that killed her father. Greed that forced humans to extract coal from thirty-inch thick seams or even sixteen-inch thick seams and who had “to crawl the shaft on their bellies”. (Meade Arble, “The Long Tunnel: A Coal Miner’s Journal”, Atheneum, New York, 1976. It is rather certain that Daniele knows more about this brutality than Meade Arble, the son of a doctor, who tasted a miner’s life for only one year.)
Ihu Daniele, nke juputara na ntorobịa, ihe mgbu, na iwe (nke na-ewekarị iwe), na-agba mmadụ ume ịgbalị ịkasi ya obi site n'ịkọrọ ya ihe mgbu na iwe nke na-etipịa ụmụ mmadụ ndị ọzọ n'akụkụ ụwa a n'otu awa ma ọ bụ ụbọchị ndị ahụ. na ya na nna ya nọ n’oké ihe mgbu. Nke a bụ mmemme:
– A few days ago, during the early hours of January 1, 2006, in the town of Rethymnon on the island of Crete, seven people, a 40-year-old Greek father, his 18-year-old son (a Greek army conscript), four young Greeks aged 18 to 21, and a 28-year-old Bulgarian woman (a girlfriend of the father) broke into the home of a family of Albanian migrant workers, beat the middle-aged Albanian father almost to death and killed his 17-year-old son by knifing him 17 times. The beating was done by all of them. The knifing by the 18-year-old Greek army conscript.
Nke a bụ ihe mere ndị a ji tie ihe ma gbuo: Ndị agha Gris were iwe n’otu ụlọ mmanya n’ihi na otu nwa okorobịa onye Albania yi uwe elu nke e dekwasịrị ọkọlọtọ Albania n’elu ya! Ọgụ dara. Mgbe agha ahụ gasịrị, ndị Gris (gbakwunyere enyi nwanyị Bulgarian) kpebiri ịta onye Albania ahụhụ na T-shirt na-akpasu iwe. Ha apụghị ịhụ ya, n’ihi ya, ha wakporo nanị otu ezinụlọ Albania bụ́ ndị ha maara adres ha. Onye Albania ahụ dị afọ 17 egburu egbu enweghị ihe jikọrọ ya na ihe mbụ merenụ.
[Parenthesis: The Island of Crete has played a significant role in human history. It was the stepping stone for the transfer of the thousands-of-years long Egyptian civilization to mainland Greece, then to Europe, to the U.S., etc. As a matter of fact the American Youth since the “radical” sixties had chosen Crete, especially the beaches south of Rethymnon, as their “watering hole” and millions upon millions of ordinary Americans have visited Crete. How come then that today, given this background, there are Cretans who can kill a human in the most brutal way for a printed piece of cloth?
There is no mystery here. The murderous Cretan father and son are the products of a wordwide process of creating (nazi-type) “nationalists” out of the populations of certain “usefull” nations. Strangely, this “nationalism” coincides with the interests of the US elites! I myself have gone through this process of (US-made) “nationalist indoctrination” since 1947, in the high school, the university, the army (as a conscript!), etc, etc. Greece (especially Crete) was and is an extremly “usefull” piece of property to the US elites. The most important US military base in the world, the “Souda Base”, lies close to Rethymnon.
Ndị isi US nke mepụtara nnukwu anụ mmiri, dị ka ndị Cretan na-egbu ọchụ nke dị n'elu, bụ otu ndị ọkachamara "site na otu abụọ (US) nke nwere ogologo oge… rite uru na njikọ nke ụlọ ọrụ coal… (nke Bush), tinyere afọ anọ iji weghachite iwu m wee laghachi azụ n'ịkwado ụlọ ọrụ ahụ." (Nke a na nchịkọta akụkọ na mbipụta Jan. 5 nke New York Times abụghị n'akwụkwọ radical!). Ọgwụgwụ nke mbikọ]
Ngosipụta megide omume ịkpa ókè agbụrụ a jọgburu onwe ya ga-eme na Jenụwarị 11 na Rethymnon.
– The same day (Jan. 5, 2006) that Daniele’s picture appeared in the International Herald Tribune, in the front page of a Greek paper (“Eleftherotypia”) there was a large photo of a rather elegant gentleman resembling a typical middle-aged American WASP. That the gentleman was in his shorts (as he was participating in the November ’05 International Marathon in Athens) did not detract from his elegance. It only proved his dedication to the classical Greek ideals. Also, that he is not an American but a Briton (that is a “poodle” of the Americans) does not diminish his effectiveness in his chosen profession, that of a “war criminal” (according to his compatriots’ claims in the Internet) and a torturer. The name of the gentleman: Nicholas Langman. A high ranking officer of the British equivalent (or better the progenitor) of the American CIA, known as the MI6. [Note: The “poodle” relationship holds for the respective elites not for the ordinary people.]
The latest accomplishments of Nicholas Langman, Esq. made even the pages of “Time” magazine. Ten days after four bombs went off in London on July 7 of last summer Langman, his black driver, and assorted Greek pigs (Greek police torturers, Greek Intelligence people, et al, all in the service of the US president for almost half a century) abducted 28 Pakistani migrant workers living in various parts of Greece, drove them to some place close to Athens and tortured them trying to extract information about the London bombing. The “interogation” did not produce any guilt for the Pakistanis and they were released. Three of them testified that “When they let us go they told us not to talk. They said that if we did they would slit our throats.” While the Pakistanis were “interogated” in Greece their families in Pakistan were undergoing a similar treatment.
Onye ọkwọ ụgbọ ala ojii ya gbara Langman gburugburu Gris (onye gwara ndị a na-ata ahụhụ ka ha kwuo okwu ka “mkpekọrịta” ahụ kwụsị) na “Cherokee” SUV green. Langman nwere ike ịbụ onye mmekpa ahụ, ebe ọ bụ onye ọcha ma eleghị anya ọ bụ onye okpukpere chi, mana onye ojii kwesịrị ịbụ onye na-emekpa ndị Pakistan aja aja ahụhụ iji nweta nri ya kwa ụbọchị?
The “Time” magazine piece mentions (out of the blue) that “Frangiscos Ragoussis, the Greek lawyer representing ” some of the Pakistanis, “also represented a member of the Greek terrorist organization November 17 who is serving multiple life sentences” This way “Time” is trying to implicitly link the Pakistanis with terrorism. Unfortunately for “Time”, that same lawyer represented Eirineos, the deposed Greek Patriarch who “guards” the (supposed) tomb of Christ in Jerusalem, and which Patriarch was accused of selling Palestinian land to the Israelis. Eirineos is still a close friend of the Israelis, therefore the Israelis are implicitly linked to the November 17 terrorists.
Dị ka a tụrụ anya, gọọmentị Britain, Gris na Pakistan gọnarịrị na a tọọrọ, wdg nke onye Pakistan ọ bụla. Otú ọ dị, nke nta nke nta, ha na-agbanwe ụda ha (ma ọ bụ ntụgharị) na-ekweta na e nwere ihe dị n'ebe ahụ. Ikpe a ka na-echere. Anyị ga-ahụ.
[Note: Langman is accused of having a lot to do with the death of Diana of England. There is an affidavit, or something, by a former member of the British Intelligence deposited in Switzerland about this. Even if that is true, it is irrelevant. What the elites are doing to one an other is of no concern to honest ordinary people. What is relevant is that a few days ago a Greek lady of humble origin who married a Greek tycoon and which lady, if I am not mistaken, was an an acquaintance of Diana’s bought a US $ 800,000 car for herself. The money of the tycoon have their roots in the money of the US taxpayers given to the Greek elites by the US since 1947. This is what is happening right now in Iraq. The Iraqis, chosen by the son of Barbara to form the future Iraqi elite, are financed even by the coal miners in West Virginia. This has paramount relevance. End of Note.]
– Maxim Zhilin, a tall 23-year-old Russian, left his native Siberia for Greece on a tourist visa last autumn intending to work there as a migrant worker. For a few days he worked as a waiter in a restaurant on the island of Corfu. Then in the first days of October he decided to return to his homeland. He had no money to buy a plane ticket. He went to the local airport hopping to be deported back to Russia as his visa had expired. He was arrested. The same day that Zhilin left his job and went to the airport a local 42-year-old woman was brutally stabbed to death in her car. The police accused Zhilin as the killer. According to the police Zhilin confessed and was imprisoned pending his trial. All the months after his arrest the media painted him as a brutal murderer who confessed that he killed the woman “to feel how it is to kill a human.”
Otu ụbọchị tupu ememme Afọ Ọhụrụ, a na-ebufe ya n'ụgbọala ndị uwe ojii n'otu ụlọ mkpọrọ gaa n'ọzọ. N'otu oge nke nnyefe, o jisiri ike gbapụ site na igbu ndị uwe ojii abụọ na-eche ya nche. Ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ ụbọchị atọ ọ nọ na-ezo n'ala ịkpa dị nso n'ebe ọ ga-agbapụ. O jisiri ike dịrị ndụ n'iyi naanị T-shirt na okpomọkụ na-ekpo ọkụ. Mgbe ahụ, dị ka ndị uwe ojii si kwuo, na mgbede nke January 1, o ji egbe o were n'aka ndị nche ya gbuo onwe ya.
Enwere ụfọdụ akara ajụjụ gbasara igbu onwe nke Zhilin. Ọzọkwa, ihe dị ka ụbọchị abụọ gara aga enwere obi abụọ ma Zhilin gburu nwanyị ahụ. Ya mere, Onye ọka iwu Ụlọikpe Kasị Elu nyere iwu ka e mee nchọpụta ọhụrụ banyere nke a. Ọ dị mkpa ịgbakwunye na ugbu a, a na-ekpughe na Zhilin ekwughị okwu banyere igbu mmadụ iji nweta mmetụta ya. A gwaghị anyị onye malitere ụgha ahụ. N'ikpeazụ, ọ bụ eziokwu na Zhilin n'oge ndụ ya dị mkpirikpi tupu ọ gawa Gris bụ ọmarịcha nwa na-enweghị ntụpọ n'omume ya.
[Cheta: Ụbọchị ole na ole gara aga, otu onye nta akụkọ Gris gara leta nne na nna Zhirin na Saịberịa. Mgbe ha nụchara ihe ha ga-ekwu na ka ha si kwuo ya, na akụkọ, mmetụta nke onwe m bụ na mmadụ kwesịrị inwe obi abụọ banyere okwu Zhilin. Ọzọkwa, mmadụ kwesịrị iburu n’obi na mgbe ọ nọ n’ụlọ mkpọrọ, ọ bụghị nanị ndị nche ya tiri Zhilin n’ụzọ obi ọjọọ kamakwa ndị mkpọrọ ibe ya bụ́ ndị Gris na ikekwe e metọrọ ya n’ụzọ mmekọahụ.]
Of course, this was not a “typical” New Year Season in Greece. However, all three cases are discussed in this society continuously for the last few days, as they should. In all three cases it is the acts of the human elites that caused the suffering: In Crete, the US-created virulent nationalism; with the Pakistanis, the British (and US) torturers; in Zhilin’s case, it is possible that besides the poverty in Siberia the Greek authorities are to blame. But, what are we to do to eliminate all this evil?
Enweghị ike ịchọta azịza ya na obere ụka Babtist ọcha dị na Sago, West Virginia. Azịza ya bụ na a ga-achọta azịza ya na Nguzogide ndị isi obodo, ọkachasị ndị nọ na US, na ịdị n'otu n'etiti ndị nkịtị. Daniele Benett nwere ike ịghọta nhụjuanya ahụ ma nwee ike inwe mmetụta nke ịdị n'otu na ọtụtụ narị puku ndị lanarịrị na Iraq bụ ndị nwụnahụrụ ha n'ihi na nwa Barbara na-agbalị ịchọta mmanụ Iraqi maka ndị enyi ya.
