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| Name: | Sunna |
| E-mail address: | sunna_way@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http:/www.mawlid.info |
| Comments: | Visit www.mawlid.info and Learn More about Al-Mawlid, The Birth of Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him.
Free Islamic Pictures and Islamic Greeting Cards – www.mawlid.info/images |
| Name: | Ahlu Sunnah |
| E-mail address: | sunna@sunna.sunna |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.sunna.info |
| Comments: | Visit the website of ahuls-sunna wal jama^a where you will find lessons about the islamic creed, jurisprudence (fiqh), Prophetic traditions (hadeeth), Qur’an interpretaion, Tajweed and other beneficial information. http://www.sunna.info http://www.sunna.info/audio http://www.sunna.info/souwar |
| Name: | jerry hughes |
| E-mail address: | jezzah@alphalink.com.au |
| Comments: | Dear Arundhati Roy,
I can't begin to tell you how inportant you are in a world gone mad with the need and greed for the material, quickly becoming obsolescent, and adding more pollution to the already overpolluted landscape. I wrote this in 1996, and it's probably more relevant today. SIMPLICITY I think we've lost it. We're brainwashed into believing we need everything brighter, faster, bigger. It has to be, new, new new! And you'll get a set of steak knives if yu buy one, now! I scour the Trading Post for old things, because they're made better, and work better. In our quest to reach for the stars, we're leaving the surface of the earth littered with new obsolescence. |
| Name: | Rigel Ernest Best |
| E-mail address: | rigelbest@yahoo.com.au |
| Comments: | To Arundhaty: I thank the universal Spirit for your existence. I have heard your lecture in Sydney for your acceptance of the Sydney Peace Prize. I also heard your interview on ABC Radio with Phillip Adams. It amazes me that some people hate you; i regard you as a messenger from God (im not religious, but i believe in a higher power). All power to you! I am a musician... a passive persuit but you have inspired me to become more politically active. I shall read your books. Peace be with you. |
| Name: | John Paul |
| E-mail address: | Gabriel2Michael@aol.com |
| Comments: | Roy is another classic example of someone who actually promtes violence and death by her recommendations that Iraq become further violent by fighting U.S. Forces when in fact the U.S. has handed sovereignty back to Iraq. It's no wonder that the "least" among you become the greatest sponsors of terrorism. |
| Name: | UCHENNA |
| E-mail address: | uzoagba@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ase.com |
| Comments: | I LOVE THE PAGE. |
| Name: | Muslim |
| E-mail address: | muslim_sunni@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.sunna.info |
| Comments: | Visit the website of ahuls-sunna wal jama^a where you will find lessons about the islamic creed, jurisprudence (fiqh), Prophetic traditions (hadeeth), Qur’an interpretaion, Tajweed and other beneficial information. http://www.sunna.info http://www.sunna.info/audio http://www.sunna.info/souwar |
| Name: | Barbara Rosen |
| E-mail address: | bjr7@earthlink.net |
| Comments: |
Thank you for your site. I am now reading her incredible novel (God
of...)...I don't know why I waited so long. I wanted to know more about
this remarkable person and so I went to the internet and to your web
site...as you said comments are important to you I wanted to thank you.
The photos are most interesting, I will be looking much more at your
site. Right now, I am "drinking" every word of her prose. My husband
made a copy of her speech when he heard I was loving her novel... I am
a little behind but it is wonderful to make discoveries Many thanks
Barbara |
| Name: | kumari Navaratne |
| E-mail address: | hnavarat@sltnet.lk |
| Comments: | Dear
Arundathi, I was fortunate to watch your book presentation on C-span. I
have ordered your book on "An ordinary person's guide to empire' and
have not read yet but listened what you said. I am not an actiist but i
am a woman who faced lots of discriminaion adn now in USA just
accompanying my daughter who is studying here. When I came to the
states the papers in Sri Lanka published many false stories, making my
journey to gain narrow political gains. However, many things you said
was like similar to what I experienced but in a different way. So let
me read your book and come back to you later. I am proud of you as a
women and also as an asian woman. best regards, kumari Navaratne
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| Name: | Ernest Goitein |
| E-mail address: | fego@pacbell.net |
| Comments: | You have distilled the amorphous thoughts in my mind about the politics of resistance and power. These ideas are now much clearer and will allow me to be more effective in the struggle for a true democracy. Thank you! |
| Name: | lindell pittman |
| E-mail address: | www.coollindell@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i just watched c-span, and caught part of her comments, on the importance of standing up for the have nots , and them standing up for their selves, life is funny, because everytime you get to a point where you think you are at the top of the mountain you see someone or something else that is bigger, i said that to say her ideas are the best and biggest ideas i ever heard on how to fight the power. |
| Name: | Anita |
| Comments: | I have listened to your double-talk and you are not as intelligent as you think you are.
That's all I have to say and you are not worth any more of my thoughts. |
| Name: | maga |
| E-mail address: | magamugu@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | very nice site keep on good work,i dey hereoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo |
| Name: | Savannah Skye |
| E-mail address: | savvy1007@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://geocities.com/savvy1007 |
| Comments: | I'm
in the process of reading "War Talk", and it's written really well... I
love her use of language - very creative as well as biting when it
needs to be... So I wanted to share with you here my two anti-war
poems...
I just wanted to share with you my two anti-war poems... War Torn ---------------------------------------------------- We stand alone under flags of disjoined countries Manipulated by leaders prepensely dividing humanity Under gray skies filled with stealth bombers of peace That loom over stark patriotic lies In a war torn world marred by greed Littered with corporate profiteers of death Who punch holes in our wall of peace With their iron fists of war Brick by brick, they're trying to knock it down As we fumble with words and stumble over weapons In shopping malls brimming with sweatshop goods That are bought with oil soaked greenbacks While bloodied bodies float in the sands of Fallujah Rotting flesh picked at by hungry vultures Outraged Umms search amongst the carnage Heart wrenched, wailing out for lost sons and daughters Above them angels with crippled wings won't look down Their eyes are shamed by what they've left behind Surely no Medal of Honor pinned upon their dead bodies will stop familial tears They will flow freely from Mothers' eyes who are left behind to bury their children With scorned hands that pray for an end to these non-sensical wars Behind veils of mourning that mask their sunken war torn eyes and... Victims of War --------------------------------- Victims of war Dance on shards of pain In life's empty battlefield Ghosts dance in their head Casting shadows of death Across casualties of life Crimson tears are cried From eyes long blind To blood shed for peace Children left behind Blown to fragmented pieces By smart bombs incognito Ears do not ring freedom Flags are tattered and torn Above bodies lying in a pool of blood - Amor y Paz - Savannah Skye... |
| Name: | NABZ N SAL |
| E-mail address: | TO ALL DE PEEPS |
| Comments: | WELL BASICALLY I JUST WANTED TO SAY......SHUT DA FUK UP ALL A YA....BOFFS WOTZ DIS BOUT PERHAPS AND WELL
DIS IS A SITE FULL OF GEEKZ XCEPT UZ ....................................... |
| Name: | Luigi |
| E-mail address: | luis23@tin.it |
| Comments: | Semplicemente fantastica.
Mi piace molto cosa e come scrive. Mi dispiace di non averla conosciuta prima. Mi spiace di non conoscerla di persona. Simply fantastic. A lot pleases me what and how it writes. It displeases me of not to have the well-known first. It displeases me of not to know the in person. |
| Name: | ALOZIE |
| E-mail address: | aloziealozie@yahoo.com.au |
| Comments: | I WANT TO BUY ANY OF YOUR NEW GENERATING PLANT THAT HAS NEVER ENTERED IN NIGERIA OR HAVE A SOLD DISTRIBUTOR.
WITH ME YOUR COMPANY WILL MOVE ON SO FAST SO FARE IS GENERATOR. CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS:aloziealozie@yahoo.com.au aloziealozie@yahoo.com.au SO DO CONTACT ME NOW DETAILS WILL BE MADE KNOWN TO YOU. THANKS, |
| Name: | charlie from k town |
| E-mail address: | dragonfly4c@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | hey! u left and i havent heard from u since be good |
| Name: | Anjali |
| E-mail address: | anjalib1980@yahoo.co.in |
| Comments: | I need the contact address of Arundhathi Roy |
| Name: | MUGU |
| E-mail address: | MUGU@MUGU.COM |
| Comments: | I DON WAKA PASSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
| Name: | rituraj misra |
| E-mail address: | rituraj_iitian@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | plz if u can provide me the e mail address of arundhati ray.
i wanna contact to her. how can i contact to her? |
| Name: | Yakoub Islam |
| E-mail address: | Plimfix@btopenworld.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://uk.geocities.com/plimfix/tasneem.html |
| Comments: | I've just finished the first chapter of 'The Algebra of Infinite Justice.' Arundhati is a writer of great clarity and conviction. I like the way she can encapsulate so much in a single phrase or paragraph, but without it being at all sloganeerish - for example, describing Western nations as having 'histories spongy with the blood of others'. After a diet of social science books and journalism, which has been my lot of late, this kind of literary journalism is a real delight. I think a book to be rapidly read and re-read! |
| Name: | USA |
| E-mail address: | nunya@usa.f-off |
| Comments: | Truer words...
Perhaps the most pathetic example of this strange nexus between first- and third-world Western bashing was seen in mid-December on television. Just as the United States government declared a high alert, one could watch a replay of the Indian novelist Arundhati Roy trashing America to a captivated, near-gleeful audience in New York. Her dog-and-pony show was followed by pathetic pleading from her nervous interrogator, Howard Zinn, not to transfer her unabashed hatred of the Bush administration to the United States in general. Mimicking the theatrics of American intellectuals — Roy’s hands frequently gestured scare quotes — she went from one smug denunciation to another to the applause of her crowd. Little was said about the crater a few blocks away, the social pathologies back home in India that send tens of thousands of its brightest to American shores, or Roy’s own aristocratic dress, ample jewelry, and studied accent. All the latter accoutrements and affectations illustrated the well-known game she plays of trashing globalization and corporatization as she jets around the Western world precisely through its largess — all the while cashing in by serving up an elegant third-world victimization to guilt-ridden Westerners. Is it weird that Western perks like tenure, jet-travel, media exposure, and affluence instill a hatred for the West, here and abroad? Or rather for a certain type of individual does such beneficence naturally explain the very pathology itself? |
| Name: | sam |
| E-mail address: | noway@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | How many lies have you told to support your self-absorbed, lacking of reality veiws. I can't read any of your material without thinking about the facts that abound in the world that prove you to be the snake oil salesman you are. Just because you come from a foreign land doesn't make you more. Your writings show you to be a spoiled brat with no real experience in dealing with real world situations. Just how rich was your mother and how long did she have to wage her legal battle for you to become that spoiled brat???? |
| Name: | Darryl Holmes |
| E-mail address: | centexcdc@hot.rr.com |
| Comments: | I
will begin to read the works of this fascinating activist. Saw her
recently on CSPAN Booknotes, and on Bill Moyers NOW. She is a true gift
from God.
Regards, Darryl |
| Name: | Rohit Panwar |
| E-mail address: | rohitpanwar@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | HEY ARUNDHATI,
YOU ARE AGAINST EVERYTHING HAPPENING IN THE WORLD WHICH IS OK BUT WHAT IS YOUR ALTERNATIVE PLAN LIKE FOR GENERATING EMPLOYMENT IN INDIA RIGHT NOW PRIVATISATION IS GOING ON AND YOU ARE AGAINST THAT . lOTS OF PEOPLE ARE BENEFITING FROM PRIVATISATION BUT YOU SAY ITS NOT GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY. SO TELL ME HOW DO YOU WANT TO MANAGE INDIA ? IS THERE ANY PAN YOU HAVE IN YOUR MIND AND WANT TO SHARE WITH OTHER PEOPLE OR YOU ARE JUST TO PLAY POWER POLITICS OF CONDEMMING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE TRY TO DO ? HEY ARUNDHATI ARE YOU LISTENING ME ? PLEASE REPLY. REGARDS, ROHIT |
| Name: | Bob Elliston |
| E-mail address: | economicliberation@trump.net.au |
| Homepage URL: | http://liberationeconomics.trump.net.au |
| Comments: | Dear Seby,
I admired your web site. Arundhati is a remarkable person, maybe the re-incarnation of M. K. Gandhi! I'm sorry that you dont have her E-mail address because I would like to converse with Arundhati about my ideas for a new economics. Despite what you may hear in the future, I am the sole originator of "Liberation Economics". Would you know how I might go about making contact with others who are interested in FAIR economics, an economic system designed to serve need rather than greed? Thanks again and very best wishes, Bob. |
| Name: | siva |
| E-mail address: | tanukusrinivas2@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | My response to the so called (pseudo) secular activist Ms. Roy.
=========================================================== If secularism is still alive even if barely in the world today, it is in the hearts of ordinary men and women who recognize and practice fairness and tolerance every day. However, in keeping with their character, they practice true secularism, not preach a distorted version of it. It is the duty of every right-thinking citizen of every country to ensure that authentic secularism takes root and blossoms everywhere. In that process, it is also incumbent upon the citizenry to terminate the careers of professional scaremongers who have managed to appropriate the label of secularists for themselves, while practicing and abetting the most reprehensible ultra-communal way of life imaginable. (copied from internet -- not my own) ” |
| Name: | siva |
| E-mail address: | tanukusrinivas2@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | My response to the so called (pseudo) secular activist Ms. Roy.
=========================================================== If secularism is still alive even if barely in the world today, it is in the hearts of ordinary men and women who recognize and practice fairness and tolerance every day. However, in keeping with their character, they practice true secularism, not preach a distorted version of it. It is the duty of every right-thinking citizen of every country to ensure that authentic secularism takes root and blossoms everywhere. In that process, it is also incumbent upon the citizenry to terminate the careers of professional scaremongers who have managed to appropriate the label of secularists for themselves, while practicing and abetting the most reprehensible ultra-communal way of life imaginable. (copied from internet -- not my own) ” |
| Name: | Arthur George |
| E-mail address: | artgeo12@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | May you expand and grow in GRACE.
Sadgurnath Maharaj Ki Jaya |
| Name: | Arthur George |
| E-mail address: | artgeo12@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | May you expand and grow in GRACE.
Sadgurnath Maharaj Ki Jaya |
| Name: | Michael Hagos |
| E-mail address: | mike_e_h@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/witnesstohisresurrection |
| Comments: | Dear Roy,
Unfortunately, I have not read any of your books, although I certainly intend to. However, I have read numerous articles and essays by you at zmag and elsewhere. I find your uncompromising integrity and writing style very compelling, inspiring and refreshing. Please keep up the great work that you are doing! Best wishes, Mike. |
| Name: | Samira Dibi |
| Comments: | I just started to read the Dutch translation of "God of the small things". I had it for my birhthday last week and just finished the first chapter. I am very curious to see if the book is as good as people say. |
| Name: | M.A. Noor |
| E-mail address: | manoor@dhaka.net |
| Comments: | Many thanks for bringing out a page on Arundhati Roy, my most favourite author. English prose has got a golden touch from her. |
| Name: | mugu maga |
| E-mail address: | mugumaga@123.com |
| Comments: | koop keep off oooooooooooooo guyz |
| Name: | 419 |
| E-mail address: | 419.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://419 |
| Comments: | 419lome |
| Name: | vishnu |
| E-mail address: | gopakumar2758@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Ruchi |
| E-mail address: | ruchimailaccount@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi Webmaster,
The link to two of Arundhati's articles is not available. The articles are 'The end to Imagination' and 'The greater common good'. Can you please look into it and insure that the corresponding pages opens.. Thanks, Ruchi |
| Name: | Ruchi |
| E-mail address: | ruchimailaccount@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Your
page made a good reading.........after reading Arundhati's 'God of
small things' and also her views on 'War with Iraq' I had a natural
curiosity of knowing more about her.......
Just the last line of the page 'email Id' not available is disheartning.......I perhaps understand how many people like me would be wanting to exchange few words with her..... |
| Name: | Ben |
| E-mail address: | mugu@mugu45 |
| Comments: | Guys Maintain small |
| Name: | Zlatko Kostadinov |
| E-mail address: | zearendil@bulgaria.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~zearendil |
| Comments: | Hi
I am just a man from Bulgaria and want to congratulate ARUNDHATI ROY for the articles. It is good that there is still such kind of journalists. Here in bulgaria the most people can see the truth, but it can't be heard on the TV or read in the newspapers... |
| Name: | mugu |
| E-mail address: | mugu@mgag |
| Comments: | great site oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo |
| Name: | raghav aras |
| E-mail address: | raghav_aras@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Dear Miss Roy:
In your recent speech, you told your Argentine audience, that in 1973, the American agency CIA orchestrated a coup in Chilé through which General Pinochet supplanted the elected, left-leaning Chiléan President Salvador Allendé. He (Allendé) had swept to power again in a rather dramatic, if typical South American election. On assuming power Pinochet, after killing Allendé, presided over a reign of terror that lasted for a good 20 years. In visiting this part of history, one assumes that you wished to emphasize to your audience how little the American Government (back then as today) thinks of trampling democratically elected governments, if they are not of it's liking. Many of your other talks as well as writings contain further references to America ruining the democratic framework of a nation. One is led to believe then that you consider the democratic process (when conducted scrupulously), wherein people select whom they want as their administrator or policy-maker, as something somewhat sacrosanct. Assuming this, I find an aberration in your speech, when you calumnize the re-election of the chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. One is aware from the corpus of your recent writings, of your anathema for the BJP, of which Mr. Modi is a cadre. Considering that this election saw a very impressive voter turnout, and that Mr. Lyngdoh was hailed for its accuracy/efficiency (in counting the collected votes), and knowing who are involved in an election process (candidates, voters, commissionars), it is easy to see that you are calumnating not solely Mr. Modi but in fact the general public of Gujarat, the electorate. This electorate used its right to appoint as guardian of their administration whom they saw fit to do the job, and you are throwing mud all over that collective judgement. This particular electorate is not a neglible one either; atleast 20 million compose it. They gave Mr. Modi his job back because they had their reasons to do so. Perhaps ignoring the violent after-math of the train bombing was one of them. Undoubtedly, they heard the same stories of violence and mayhem as you did. But in the end, they made a choice under the law. I hope you see your aberration as I do: you are willing to cry for people who had their right to vote snatched away in a certain part of the world, in a certain time in history. Yet you are unwilling to even recognize people as people when they use that same, now universally enshrined right, to it's full effect, in another part of the world, in an other time in history. With kind regards, Raghav Aras |
| Name: | AUNALI KHALFAN |
| E-mail address: | read@koranusa.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.koranusa.org |
| Comments: | Dear Ms. Roy:
We are a publisher and distriutor of the Holy Qur'an and other books in the U.S.A. for over 27 years. We have so far published 27 different editions of the Quran. We are going to publish the Qur'an in Hindi language very soon, in India. After having read some of your books, and watched your video, we thought that you would be able to assist us by writing an introduction to the Qur'an, in HINDI and ENGLISH language. Our books/Quran is distributed throughout the world, and we print 25,000 copies at a time. We have distributed over almost 2 million copies as of now. Therefore, your help would be appreciated. Please respond to us at the earliest, as we would like to include your introduction in the Qur'an. Your prompt response will be highly appreciated. Thank you Aunali Khalfan |
| Name: | sha |
| E-mail address: | babushaonline@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | recently I read "God of Small Things"..Swear one of the best I have ever read,,,
more to know about the A'roy's speach ,could someone forward the speach to me please.. All the best to A'Roy.. |
| Name: | Trevor Ballard |
| E-mail address: | kiel@riseup.net |
| Comments: | Walt is a funny guy.
It's too bad he probably votes. Viva Libre! I still want a Democracy. |
| Name: | Trevor Ballard |
| E-mail address: | kiel@riseup.net |
| Comments: | Arundhati is my Hero.
May bright praise be always given her. The world is a better place with such passionate compassionates. Thank you for this beautiful web page. In Solidarity. |
| Name: | anggraeni mulya putri |
| E-mail address: | n_ne87@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | i
don't know how many people in indonesia read ms roy's book, i already
read that book three times, i do love to read again and again...
may gad bless you.... |
| Name: | Rob Gustaveson |
| E-mail address: | ninthnebula10@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://graphic-illusion.com |
| Comments: | Dedicated my home page to you and your (our) message. Love, Light, Peace! Om Shanthi! May Truth Will Out! May Love Prevail. |
| Name: | arshia ahmed ayub |
| E-mail address: | arshiayub@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | in
one of arundhati roy's articles/essays compiled in the book 'the
algebra of infinite justice' she mentions a book that her husband is
writing about the fig tree/plant. i was wondering if you would be able
to give me the title of his book as i'm interested in reading it.
thanks and sorry for the trouble. arshia ahmed ayub |
| Name: | Garnet Lewis |
| E-mail address: | turntable@eastlink.ca |
| Homepage URL: | http://wintertreeaudio.com |
| Comments: | I
heard Ms Roy's address from NY one year after the attacks of Sept 11,
and was very moved by her speech and felt at last someone has the
courage to tell the truth and give the proper meassure of blame to US
foreign policy.
I then read Power Politics and just now bought "The God of Small Things". No book has so moved me since I read "Pride and Predudice" as a child. Words like powerfull, lyrical, etc don't do this book justice... it's indescribable in a way...a masterpiece. Thanks, Garnet Lewis Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada |
| Name: | AFIFA E.HADI |
| E-mail address: | afifahadi@yahoo.com |
| Comments: |
Hi, one of my friend told me about Ms Arundhati's speech at Riverside Church ,at NEW YORK CITY of 5/13/03. she said it was one of the she ever heard in many years I,m sending this e-mail hopfull if you can forword a copy of that famous speech for me i well appreciated very much and thank you best wishes always, afifa |
| Name: | Walt Verbanic |
| E-mail address: | verbanicw@mindspring.com |
| Comments: | I saw a rebroadcast of Ms. Roy at the Riverside Church, NYC, of 5/13/03.
I will seek a transcript of this remarkable speech and the later conversation with Howard Zinn. Ms. Roy, may be a great writer, I don't know, I haven't read her work. But as a political commentarian she is just full of bullsh-t. An simple reading of her words will show her to use her rhetoric in the one-sided, propagandastic manner of the left and their father, Josip Stalin. Such a shame this cute little babe doesn't use her brain for more noble efforts. The sickening left wing who want to limit freedom and choice in America by pushing their ideas into force, "anti-smoking", "pro-choice for fetus, but not ciggies, but pot is OK and should be legalized or atleast decriminalized" is on the wane, thankfully in America. Oh, one last thing, if the majority of the local school boards are in the control of Democratic Liberals why don't children read at a level consistent with their diplomas? Because the left and the Democrats can fool the folk better than anybody in the world, except of course Uncle Joe Stalin who knew they were the real fools. Enjoy my precious comments, let's see how long you respect a disenting view! Sincerely, Walt Verbanic |
| Name: | Apurv |
| E-mail address: | apurva_d1@rediffmail.com |
| Comments: | After reading Ms. Roy's articles i've become her fan.She is arguably amongst the top intellectuals of the world. |
| Name: | DAVID GK |
| E-mail address: | gkd1@earthlink.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.krx.zzn.com |
| Comments: | In
this age where all the people of the earth are steel slaves and have
been for so many thousands of years, you are the voice of God, trying
to free us slaves on earth, You are the light of the heart of God, open
all mind and spirits to the world issues and atrocity, I love you so
much and I thank you for your works I thank for everything you are
doing, you inspire hope in the world, I thank you for your strength
once again I think you.
DGK |
| Name: | Odinn Thor... The REAL Viking |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.hn.is/idx |
| Comments: | Very COOL website you have here, I am glad to put my step on it,
Best greetings to you and all your visitors. I just say --> WELCOME <-- to visit my webpage as well. Vous êtes bienvenu pour visiter mon webpage Usted es bienvenido visitar mi webpage Dé la bienvenida para visitar mi webpage. |
| Name: | zia syed |
| E-mail address: | zia_rizvi@lycos.com |
| Comments: | Than you very much for making this information available ,would like to know how can i email Ms Roy. |
| Name: | justin brody |
| E-mail address: | justin@trackhounds.com |
| Comments: | One hell of a writer, speaker and has to be one of this generations top thinkers. Plus she's kind of a hottee too! I didn't realize what babe material she is!!! |
| Name: | Juan Galis-Menendez |
| E-mail address: | Gilligan2_@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Ms.
Roy is a superb writer, whose ear for the subtleties and new music of
the English language -- a language that is now enriched by its
extention to millions of people from other linguistic traditions, in
Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East -- is second to none.
The delights of her prose are well worth the cost of her books. But
apart from her magnificent literature, there is her example and courage
as a fighter for human dignity and social justice. Her essays are as
splendid as her literary art ... and they have the considerable merit
of being true. She fills me with hope for the future at my darkest
moments. For if there are such superb persons struggling for the things
that I believe in, then things cannot be as hopeless as they sometimes
seem in this cynical age. I send her my good wishes and best hopes for much success in all her future endeavors. |
| Name: | Syed Kamal |
| E-mail address: | qalaqund |
| Comments: | I heard Ms. Roy for the first time last night on C-Span. (May 17, 03) May Allah bless her and keep her safe. It is rare to see truth told on American media. She tells the truth and seems to fear no one. What a fine specimen of a fine human being. Thank you for this site. |
| Name: | Robert Walther |
| E-mail address: | rgw@digitalstreams.biz |
| Comments: | I
find it most interesting that the people who can only speak freely as a
result of the liberties created and engforced by America can so
cynically try to denigrate the country the sponsors them...
It is a shame Arundhati Roy cannot be found on the internet, so that questions can be put to her directly |
| Name: | Richard Savon |
| E-mail address: | richardsvn@aol.com |
| Comments: | I caught her speech on c-span2 book TV 05-18-2003 12:00am and enjoyed her refreshing way of expressing her point of view. If she has other speeches and I am able to listen I will most definatly tune in. |
| Name: | Sascha Hahn |
| E-mail address: | shan121@onlinehome.de |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.devide0.com/ |
| Comments: | *great* thanks for the infos, found more useful links here... <a href="http://www.sharmarg.org/">ficken?</a> hier |
| Name: | Larry White |
| E-mail address: | larry.duane@attbi.com |
| Comments: | May
your God keep you safe to continue your wonderful work. We need
hundreds like you to pull the cateracts from the "first world's" eyes.
Larry |
| Name: | Sazal Khan |
| E-mail address: | sazal97@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I
have just finished the God of Small things. And for this whay i am just
finding Ms. Arunduti Roy at the net. I got her. I am realy lucky. What
book that was.
sazal (from Bangladesh) |
| Name: | V.M.Sathish |
| E-mail address: | editor@keralamonitor.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.keralamonitor.com |
| Comments: | Hi Arundadi, Nice to meet one of the great writers from Kerala.
Keep the good work going. visit http://www.keralamonitor.com |
| Name: | Liz Mata |
| E-mail address: | mata.l@pg.com |
| Comments: | Dear Miss Roy:
With great joy I started to read your article "Confronting Empire". I always feel a great sense of pride when women of less fortunate countries raise to achieve international recognition. I am also from a less fortunate country, one your refer to in your article. I am from Venezuela. I was saddened to read of India's pillaging, it makes me incredibly angry to see how the more "developed" countries and their multi national corporations are willing to ravage developing countries for a slight increase on their profits. Like you, I strongly believe the world needs to grow a conscience A conscience that drives our actions, that balances our choices and that leads us to real collaboration that benefits the people of the countries involved and not just a privileged few. This is why I was so shocked to read the name Hugo Chavez in the list of people you feel are role models in Latin America today. Living next to Venezuela I would assume you are aware of our current situation and the dark path that has brought us to this hell we live in today. Hugo Chavez came to power with the promise of a new day for Venezuela. Vowing to eradicate corruption, work for the poor and to lift Venezuela out of the disastrous situation that our former inept governors had left us in. Since then he has betrayed us all. 80% of Venezuelans want elections, this 80% obviously includes people from all walks of life. Mr. Chavez and his cronies are terrified to call for elections since they are absolutely sure they will lose. From the very beginning he has had the opportunity to fulfill all of his promises, since he has always had the majority in our National Assembly. Now it is very clear to us Venezuelans those were never his intentions. Why have we changed our minds in such a short time? Unemployment has risen to record highs of 30% an the informal economy to 55% (this was prior to the National strike in Dec02), violence has risen in 19.7% in the last three years, moving Venezuela from 8th place to 2nd place in Latin America and last but certainly not least this has been proven to be the most corrupt government in Venezuela's history. He has dedicated himself to ruin us internally, to arm paramilitary groups (Circulos Bolivarianos) to coerce the opposition, to orchestrate massacres, to attack us personally with his incendiary rhetoric, and to discredit us internationally by instigating acts of violence against the Spanish and Colombian embassies and supporting the Colombian and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. This is not a man that fights imperialism, this is a terrorist who wants to rule our country into destruction and use its fortune for his personal gain. I hate to see such a great piece tarnished with Mr. Chavez' name on it. Please review the following attachments and reconsider your reference. I am sure there are other more deserving men and women out there that are truly leading their people in a fight against imperialism that will unite their country and develop alternate avenues of growth. Sincerely Yours, Liz Mata Qta Chiki Av Miranda con Vereda Oeste Ur Miranda Edo Miranda Venezuela Video of Venezuelan situation http://www.diatriba.net/itv/diatriba%205%202003%20ciao%20cd%2004%20the%20futile%20revolution/ Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos- Press Release http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/Spanish/2003/5.03.htm |
| Name: | riazbhai |
| E-mail address: | riazbhai111@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i want email of the writer want a email to her pl,. if u have issue give me, |
| Name: | eswar |
| E-mail address: | eswar100_2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | dear sir,
the page maintained by you about Ms.Roy is extremely appreciable. Nice to go through the page. Ms.Arundhati is one of my favourite writer whom i love to read at anytime. If u could add some more photographs of hers and update the site at regular intervals it will be very helpful. |
| Name: | saiF |
| E-mail address: | km_saif@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | she's really a great writer. i wish i could send her an email, but i don't know her email adress. but i must agree SHE IS A REAL GREAT WRITER. |
| Name: | anna nurwidayanti |
| E-mail address: | anna_1000days@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i've
read the god of small things in indonesian version that's so..so
awesome i've read it about 3 times and cuold be more there's also
indonesian female author like ms. roy, her name is ayu utami "saman"
and "larung" i like to read the god of small things in originall vesion but i have problem how or where to find it can you help me? |
| Name: | Craig |
| E-mail address: | Craig997@yahoo.com |
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| Comments: | i like your page keep up thegood work |
| Name: | shishir |
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| Comments: | i wnt ur contact nos. |
| Name: | Judy Gibson |
| E-mail address: | poppagib@aol.com |
| Comments: | Have
just read your article entitled, "Brutality con dolcezza, Miss Rices
High School Home Work as Justification of Blood Letting" which was sent
to me via a compatriot from the Florida Friends For Peace. Just wanted
to let you know that I thoroughly enjoyed it and am (of course)
appalled at the cavalier handling of enriched uranium but feel that it
is entirely "in character" for my nation and probably many others in
the "developed" world.
US citizens are, I feel, now like sheep being led to slaughter by our sleazy, stupid pResident. I am ashamed to admit that he is the leader of our country and it appears that he is leading us into the abyss. I cry out, "WHY?"! So many things are needed in this country and virtually every other country around the world and we are set to spend untold amounts on the destruction of innocents and the underpinnings of everyday life for thousands (possibly millions) of others. It says little of our humanity and is so intensely negative for our nation that I cannot fathom what lies ahead. Peace to you and yours, Judy |
| Name: | Alex |
| E-mail address: | Alex503@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.domains-links.com |
| Comments: | Hello, super site, best wishes |
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| Comments: | great! |
| Name: | vivek |
| E-mail address: | vsmhappysmiles@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | very good website comendable work! i never knew so much about her .. keep up the good work!
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| Name: | Dr. Michael Conley |
| E-mail address: | mike.conley@t-online.de |
| Homepage URL: | http://thecosmiccontext.de (omit the customary www.) |
| Comments: | Dear Arundhati Roy!
I made my acquaintance with you thinking through a German language translation of your ?How to sell a War? appeared in perhaps the best known newspaper, The Frankfurter Allgemine Zeitung.? I immediate felt myself immediately confronted by a person of my like. Please let me acquaint you with my own reflections by means of the attached essay in which I propose several heretical propositions on: ?The Real Reason Why Bush Seeks War With Saddam Hussein? I?ve the sneaking suspicion ? let me add on here - that this piece might just possibly have had some very slight influence in both the German and US political processes recently. Now it?s altogether possible that I?m suffering from sickly self-love, chutzpah, ?Grossenwahn,? as the Germans might labelled it, but the sudden, almost adolescent hostility between George Dubja and his Ronald Rumsfeld, on the one side, and Gerhard Schoeder and his Justice Minister, Herta Däuber-Gmelin, Germany?s counterpart to Attorney General Ashcroft, on the other side, takes on added meaning in light of the fact that all those involved are, in all probability, acquainted with my words, if not syllable for syllable, then generally in tenor. Please indulge me for a moment and read on! According to the ?Schwaebisches Tagblatt,? Herta Däuber-Gmelin told an assembly of Trade Unionists, late in the very recent election campaign here in Germany, that Bush was using Hitler?s `method.? In pursuing his confrontation with Saddam Hussein, he used means ? I quote in translation - ?similar to tactics employed by Hitler because both wished to divert attention from domestic problems.? Now the fact of the matter is that more than two weeks ago, I e-mailed the attached essay to both Herta Däuber-Gmelin and the head of the `Green? camp here, Joschka Fischer. Additionally, you may be certain that a limited number of those about the person of George Dubja concurrently know what I wrote, for I sent it off per e-mail to several of the Senators (e.g. Lieberman, McCain, Daschle) and both the CIA and the FBI! The intensity of George?s reaction to Schroeder?s ?Nein? to his Iraq politics ? even `Bratwurst,? a traditional German lunch-time quicky, has been expurgated from the White House?s menu! - and consequently Rumsfeld?s ostentatious snubbing of Peter Struck in Warsaw might be more readily understood if one proceeded upon the assumption that those involved were briefed on my line of reasoning. (You can learn more about my person by ticking my name on the title page of my website, given below.) In the ardent hope that you?ll take me serious ? even though George Dubja declared that he?d henceforth refuse to take Chancellor Gerhard serious ? and respond. I remain, Dr. Michael Conley, resident in the German Rhineland west of Cologne Von-Bodelschiwngh-Weg 23; D-50374 Erftstadt-Lechenich, Germany; Tel o2235/5913; <mike.conley@t-online.de> Dismantling the Statue of Liberty By Michael Conley (29 July 2002) mike.conley@t-online.de Among the initial essays I entered into this website http://thecosmiccontext.de (Omit the customary www !), you will find one in the section, ?Current Affairs? entitle ?The Nature of American Society,? dated 26 November 2001. You may still peruse it there today ? or, in an other context, my statement on Terrorisim of 4 July 2002 in which I argue that the essential element in the so-called, current ?war? has been overlooked. But the earlier essay is essential germane here. I argued November last that the world is currently witness to the stepwise displacement of democratic institutions in the United States of America with authoritarian ones, repeating, in a sense, the transformation of the Roman state from a republic to an authoritarian empire under its first emperor, Gaius Octavius, who assumed the designation, Augustus. I have had no reason since then to alter my judgement, rather the present incumbent in the office of president progressively reveals his intent; his marching plan becomes ever more discernable for those analytically inclined. I propose to offer my conclusions here for the critical evaluation of my reader, hoping my argument becomes so convincing that appropriate steps are promptly taken to hinder the ultimate outcome depicted. Let my deliberations, then, constitute, not a irrevocable, Delphic oracle, but rather a `self-emaciating prophesy? no longer relevant to the political scene. I. GATHERING IN THE CHIPS Let us examine the grand strategy of gathering in one interest group, faction, lobby or segment of the population after the other that has been in progress since the inauguration in 2001. This matter ? winning adherents -is a traditional preoccupation of American president, beginning even with George Washington time. After all, a politician?s first task is to get himself elected and his second task is to get himself re-elected. The current incumbent made a splash right from the beginning by reimbursing the American citizenry with a portion of their last annual taxes. That is so say, he paid them off for voting for him or, more accurately put, for not voting for Al Gore. But the current incumbent distinguishes himself by the radicalism with which he dispenses gifts and levels disfavors. He increasingly disregards the conventions of the last two centuries. His motto: Get them into the corral now, give them vested interests to comply, before events provoke second thoughts. A study of his tactics provides one with a running yardstick against which to adjudge the purpose behind them. A readiness to understand `patriotism,? on the one hand, as obeisant submission to the momentary political line of the president and `treachery,? on the other hand, as synonymous with disagreement is slowly losing its apocalyptical weight, if however still easily identifiable. But the concept of terrorism as `protracted war? ? a phrase Mao Tse-tung employed ? correctly! ? in labelling his struggle against the Chinese Nationalists, persists unabatedly. In point of fact, contending with terrorism, is not `warfare,? but rather a `police action? as I have demonstrated elsewhere. Despite the logical of the situation, this misuse of the term, `war,? nevertheless persists as the background rustle, the premeditated and indispensable soundtrack underlying current Washington politics. Permitting myself a brief discursion, let us note that even the Pentagon leadership, after its own fashion, now concedes to this fact. This became apparent when General Ralph Eberhart of the US Air Force, charged with the defense of the continental United States suggested that the POSSE COMITATUS ACT of 1878, part of legislation of the Reconstruction era following the Civil War should be modify - if not indeed rescinded! With blinders adjusted to obscure the civil consequences of what he was saying, he determined that the law restricts the legal rights of the military to engage in domestic law enforcement. The occasion? Administration lawyers had determined that Bush would have violate Posse Comitatus if he had called up National Guard troops to help provide security at airports nationwide. He was obliged to ask state governors to use their call-up authority to perform the same task. (Eric Schmitt, The New York Times, 22 July 2002) But in assuming `police? functions, the Pentagon would not be `militarising? the police, but rather openly `policifying? the military! And therewith, back to the progressive amassment of clientele We note the delay in the ratification of the international women?s bill of rights, the UN?s Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It was been derogated to the 17th place on the Senate?s waiting list, following Ashcroft?s assertion that the treaty ?needed more study.? He, among other, presumably feared that it might ?criminalize? Mother?s Day! So would the administration demonstrate it unanimity with the hairy chested misogynists it would attract to the camp. The proscriptions contained within the constitution of the United States, rigorously disassociating the state from complicity in any form with organized religious still stand. Their gradual dismemberment to the end of winning the irrevocable allegiance of the `Religious Right? proceeds unabated. In the sense of Marvin Olasky, a recognized intellectual apologist for the American Right and the originator of the concept, ?Compassionate Conservatism,? we are witness to the increasing role of the churches in social welfare work. And in the recent voucher arrangement, denominational schools are, de facto, paid out - by the state! - to assume functions in the field of educational which are universally assigned to state institutions elsewhere in the western world. Christian fundamentalists in America, convinced that they enjoy the president?s conspiratorial support, envision a situation in which government withdraws from social and educational work, leaving the field to church charities or `faith-based' organizations that are to enjoy special tax privileges. The "entitlement revolution" would be rolled back. Institutionalized Christianity would acquire an enormous increase in power over the lives of the citizenry. The expression, `the poor,? would gradually become an epithet referring to that element within the citizenry who resist submission to their ecclesiastical superiors are consequently excluded from their relief programs. Or to point out the parallels with the ancient past, uttering the phrase, "under God" would displace civic obligation of all who lived within the Roman Empire to sacrifice at the altar of the Roman emperor, in both cases, signs of patriotism. The term, `poor,? would become synonymous with the moniker, `sinner,? referring in both cases to the treacherous outcasts who, at the procurator?s wont, might well be crucified. The parallel decision to cut off US financing for the UN Population Fund on the grounds that it supported Chinese government agencies that force women to have abortions is pure façade. Essential is George Dubja?s retention of the Religious Right. What they claim is determinative. The de facto situation is essentially irrelevant. In this sense may one likewise adjudge the president?s gift of astronomical subventions to the Agro industry ? far removed from the upright peasant farmers often depicted - and the utterly unjustified tariff revisions upward for the steel mills. Add on the ?fast track? authority the president acquired from an ill-comprehending Congress in late July 2002. George Dubja?s clearly collared both business lobbyists and so-called free-trade advocates. But the president?s refusal to accede to the UN plan designed to reinforce the 1989 convention against torture by establishing a system of regular inspections of prisons and detention centers worldwide must be added on. The justification: aliens would then be able to poke their faces into penal institutions, interested in particular with the treatment of the some 500 Al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The rational is once again white wash. The genuine intent is to keep those imprisoned once the power takeover is consummated from the world-public?s eyes. The rejection of the International Criminal Court in Den Haag is part of the same act, pure flattery for the swellheads across the board. That the United States joins the ranks of such states as Libya, North Korea and Iraq in the process is of no importance! Significant is success in enhancing the glee of the host of his viral, gun-totting supporters in their delight at the unblemished uniqueness of US Citizenship. Moving on to the realm of International Affairs, one is struck by the president?s rejection of the Kyoto Treaty, setting upper limit on a nation?s emissions into the heavens and, further, with the president?s rapprochement with Russia. The purpose is clear. He would neutralize interference by his NATO allies by going over their heads. To mention but a single example, the clearly evident hostility from Berlin, Paris and elsewhere in Europe to the building of a U.S. national missile system, culminating in the scrapping of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty quickly abated once Putin nodded in agreement. But to the external aspects of the current White House line belongs likewise the president?s curious toleration of Ariel Sharon?s brutality in Palestine. ITEM: The preliminary results of a survey of malnutrition in Palestinian areas, conducted by John Hopkins University for the U.S. Agency for international Development, indicates that 30 percent of Palestinian children are suffering from chronic malnutrition and 21 percent from acute malnutrition (James Bennet, The New York Times, 27 July 02). Vis-à-vis the Near East, Western Europe has its hands tied behind its back. Consider but for a moment what would happen if a joint French/German force, intent upon alleviating the sufferings of the Palestinians, appear off the Israel coast! If George Dubja surrenders upon the Palestinians to the benevolent hand of Sharon, then that?s the way the cookie crumbles. We just have to lump it! And most recently we are confronted with TIPS (= Terrorism Information and Prevention System). TIPS figured in the president?s State of the Union speech, and again in Knoxville on April 8 when he said, "This is a program where truckers can report anything that might be suspicious." He added, "If people see anything suspicious, utility workers, you ought to report it. This is a way to organize that which already happens in our communities on a daily basis and a way to make the homeland more secure and more prepared." The Justice Department would provide reporting channels to truckers, train conductors, ship captains, utility employees and others who are ?regularly in the public? where ?they can spot anomalies ? things that are different? with ?a formal way to report suspicious terrorist activity.? Ashcroft scheduled a pilot run, based in ten cities, to begin in August 2002 while assuring the Senate during a hearing of the Judiciary Committee on 25. July that ?Operation TIPS, being developed in conjunction with a ?Citizen Corps,? will NOT be used to build up a new database. ?I?ve recommended that there be no database and I?ve been assured there won?t be one.? (AP, 26 July 2002) As a German, that designation, `Citizen Corps? which Ashcroft mentioned in passing instantly call to mind the `HJ,? the ?Hitler Jugend,? an affiliate of the Nazi Party, intent upon corralling the German youth of the 1930s. I shudder! But irrespective of how one understands that term, one must fear that Ashcroft is fibbing. The assertion is, in terms of the goal set, not credible. Would Ashcroft being suggesting that the rumours collected should simply be thrown away or that the centers receiving the program?s daily reports will run them through a shedder the following day? ITEM: A Secret Service agent in Detroit was placed on leave on 25 July after admitting that he scrawled anti-Islamic statements on a prayer calendar as he searched the Dearborn home of a man charged with smuggling bogus checks into the United States. The agent was not identified. (Adam Clymer, The New York Times, July 26, 2002.) The new scheme actually is intended to broaden out the intelligence base which Google and its siblings have nolons volens created in the course of the last decades. Jonathan Zittrain, director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, is very much to the point when he asserted, ?Many people assume they are a needle in a haystack, simply a face in the crowd. But the minute someone takes an interest in you, the search tool is what allows the rest of the crowd to dissolve.? (Jennifer 8.Lee, The New York Times, 26 July 02) If he was exaggerating at all, when he uttered these words, then Ashcroft?s TIPS will fill out the blank space still existing, the homes not integrated into the Internet. Mr. Barr called TIPS a "snitch system," saying, "A formal program, organized, paid for and maintained by our own federal government to recruit Americans to spy on fellow Americans, smacks of the very type of fascist or Communist government we fought so hard to eradicate in other countries in decades past." And for Mr. Leahy TIPS offered a homegrown example of excess today. "In 1917, the Justice Department formed the American Protective League, who had volunteers to report on people who might criticize their government," he said. "Sometimes they would turn into vigilante groups that raided newspaper offices, actually tarred and feathered some people." (Adam Clymer, The New York Times, July 26, 2002.) But in other respects as well, the intransigent of the U.S. Justice Department makes itself increasingly apparent. Consider the 46-page position paper filing with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond Virginia on 19 June 02. It declared that prisoners categorized as "enemy combatants" have 1) no right to a lawyer, and 2) may be held indefinitely. Civilian courts have no standing to intervene. Further: (inter alia) "There is no right under the laws and customs of war for an enemy combatant to meet with counsel concerning his detention, much less to meet with counsel in private, without military authorities present." For the moment, the determination applies to the Louisiana-born Yaser Esam Hamdi, 21, captured with Taliban forces and currently being held in a navy brig in Norfolk, Virginia, and to the Brooklyn, New York-born Jose Padilla, alias Abdullah al Muhajir. "This is really an astounding assertion of authority," said David Cole, a Georgetown University Law Professor. Frank Dunham jr., the federal public defender who provoked the ruling by attempting to defend Hamdi and who was given a deadline of three days to respond, said, "It is scarier than the dirty bomb. Now the government can label somebody something and then throw the key away forever." (Tom Jackman & Dan Eggen, The Washington Post, 21. June 02.) For the resident alien and the tourist from elsewhere in the world, the writ of habeus corpus no long exists as a self-evident right today. It would be but a slight additional step to extend the recently acquired practice to bona fide US citizen. Consider the protestors against the seizure of power in Minnesota, Vermont, and Arizona etc. Might they not, to use George Dubja?s words, likewise be "taken off the street"? And then one lands at the crux of the matter: `The Department of Homeland Security? and the trenchant urgency with which the president seeks to win the formal legislative approval of the House of Representatives and the Senate before their traditional summer recess. His energetic involvement suggests that the president is concerned, not so much with the welfare of ?the American people,? a phrase he never tires of reiterating, but with a flowchart of interdependent, indispensable steps, which must be in place as soon as possible if he and his acolytes are to achieve their calamitous goal ?A time of ?war,? he declared, ?is the wrong time to weaken the president?s ability to protect the American people. [The emperor Augustus likewise declared that he was protecting Rome?s citizenry and, indeed, `preserving their republic.? In fact, he irrevocably destroyed it!] ??I?m not going? - to return to George Dubja?s words - ??to accept legislation that limits or weakens the president?s well-established authorities ? authorities to exempt parts of government from parts of federal labor-management relations statues when it serves our national interest.? (David Firestone & David Stout, The New York Times, 27 July 02) The responsiveness of the personnel of a Department of Homeland Security- some 170,000 persons in all, with the most varied of allegiances and identities! - slatted to become the command central for a coup d?etat from the top down, is crucial to George Dubja and his confreres. While arguing that the staffing of the department must be freed from civil service rules so that ?laggard employee can be fired,? he, in point of fact, would rid himself instantly of those who openly or covertly impede or attempted to subvert illegal and unconstitutional machinations. Simultaneously, he would free his agency of close Congressional fiscal control, of not only his department?s spending, but likewise the sectors into which that money goes. He was addressing these two point ? civil service regulations and congressional surveillance - when he informed lawmakers, governors, mayors, police officers and fire-fighters who had gathered at the White House on 26 July 02, that the alternate bill proposed by the Democratic majority ??doesn?t have enough managerial flexibility as far as I?m concerned.? Consider the 170,000 employees of the new Department, under duress, aye stated bluntly: terror, to obey unsavoury directives whose implementation lay in the hands of military units, freed ? in accordance with General Ralph Eberhart?s wishes ? from the inconveniences proffered by the POSSE COMITATUS ACT of 1878!! II. THE ATTACK ON IRAQ ? IN SELF-DEFENSE Hans von Sponeck, between 1998 and 2000 the UN Humanitarian Aid coordinator for Iraq, writing for the ?Guardian Weekly,? 25-31 July 2002 on page 13 has extremely significant words for us. ?The US department of defence and the CIA know perfectly well that today?s Iraq poses no threat to anyone in the region, let alone in the US. To argue otherwise,? he continues, ?is dishonest??. But that?s only a starter. Let us follow his words in greater detail. ?Al-Dora, formerly a production centre for vaccine against foot and mouth disease on the outskirts of Baghdad and al-Fallujah, a pesticide and herbicide manufacturing unit in the western desert are today defunct and beyond repair. Al-Dora was once involved in biological agent research and development and the latter in the production of materials for chemical warfare. UN disarmamene personnel permanently disabled al-Dora in 1996. ?During a visit with a German TV crew to al-Dora in MID-JULY, 2002 ? a site chosen by me and not the Iraqi authorities ? I found it in the same destroyed condition in which I had last seen it in 1999. Al-Fallujah was partially destroyed in 1991 during the Gulf war and again in December 1998 during Operation Desert Fox. In between a UN disarmament team disabled all facilities in any way related to weapons of mass destruction there, including the castor oil production unit. ?My visit this month [i.e. IN THE MONTH, JULY, 2002!] disclosed beyond any doubt that the castor oil unit was inoperable. Remnants of other production facilities are used to manufacture herbicides and pesticides for plant protection and household use... The truly worrying fact is that the US department of defence has all of this information. Why then, one must ask, does the Bush administration want to include Iraq in its fight against terrorism? Is it really too far-fetched to suggest that the US government does not want UN arms inspectors back in Iraq?? The forecasted attack on Iraq? This is the crucial point: It will occur when preparations, not in the countries surrounding Iraq ? Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Pakistan ? have reached perfection and appropriate troop concentrations are in place, but rather when the planned, legally bolstered up arrangements for a coup d? etat within the United States have been consummated and government-induced mass hysteria has grasp the man-in-the-street, shutting down his intelligence and replacing it with frantic fear and a readiness to let others free him of his anxiety. That some military officials, even members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, argue that Saddam Hussein poses no immediate threat and that the United States should continue its policy of containment is quite besides the point. They?re ignorant of the plot hatched out by Rummy, Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Cheney, Rice, Rove et al. (My respect for Colin Powell prohibits me from including his name in this list.) It?s the favorable psychopathic atmosphere within the United States provoked by aggression, accompanied with dramatic threats of the woes that must be averted that is critical, not the legitimacy of employing armed force in self defense. In evaluating the current course of events within the United States, let us keep clearly in mind that Adolph Hitler broke no law to the end of seizing power in Germany in 1933. He was offered the office by the Weimar Republic?s president, the former field marshal, Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934). It was only after he had the instruments of power in his hands, the critical administrative departments headed by members of his NSDAP, that Hitler, ignoring statutory law, commenced destroying the opposition parties and other institutions of the land that might have thwarted the erection of a dictatorship. Much of what we observe today makes sense precisely in terms of that insidious example: The laws of the land are being so adjusted as to give a profoundly unconstitutional seizure of power the outer trappings of legality. In a sense, even international law may be exploited to justify this planned, unprovoked act of aggression under the cover of which the fundamental fabric of American life is profoundly altered. Resolution Nr. 678 (1990) permitted the Security Council of the UN to employ military forces to liberate Kuwait. Resolution Nr. 687 (1991) reiterated the determinations of Resolution Nr. 678 and went on to formally recognize that an armistice was in effect in Iraq. It also forbid the production of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam Hussein?s state was subjected to weapons inspections for an unspecified period of time. The question today is whether those determinations of an earlier decade continue to apply to Iraq even though it is not openly engaged in warfare. Most international authorities argue, `No,? but Washington follows the tact of Marlene Albright, Clinton?s erstwhile Secretary of State who is reported as having replied, upon receiving an adverse response from her specialist in international law, ?Then get my new experts!? The White House of George Dubja responds, `Yes!? And the president?s strenuous efforts to involved the United States? NATO allies? Indeed! The more they are involved in the aggression, the less willing will they be to instantly protest the power seizure, at a moment when it might conceivably make a difference. Dear Arundhati Roy! I made my acquaintance with you thinking through a German language translation of your ?How to sell a War? appeared in perhaps the best known newspaper, The Frankfurter Allgemine Zeitung.? I immediate felt myself immediately confronted by a person of my like. Please let me acquaint you with my own reflections by means of the attached essay in which I propose several heretical propositions on: ?The Real Reason Why Bush Seeks War With Saddam Hussein? I?ve the sneaking suspicion ? let me add on here - that this piece might just possibly have had some very slight influence in both the German and US political processes recently. Now it?s altogether possible that I?m suffering from sickly self-love, chutzpah, ?Grossenwahn,? as the Germans might labelled it, but the sudden, almost adolescent hostility between George Dubja and his Ronald Rumsfeld, on the one side, and Gerhard Schoeder and his Justice Minister, Herta Däuber-Gmelin, Germany?s counterpart to Attorney General Ashcroft, on the other side, takes on added meaning in light of the fact that all those involved are, in all probability, acquainted with my words, if not syllable for syllable, then generally in tenor. Please indulge me for a moment and read on! According to the ?Schwaebisches Tagblatt,? Herta Däuber-Gmelin told an assembly of Trade Unionists, late in the very recent election campaign here in Germany, that Bush was using Hitler?s `method.? In pursuing his confrontation with Saddam Hussein, he used means ? I quote in translation - ?similar to tactics employed by Hitler because both wished to divert attention from domestic problems.? Now the fact of the matter is that more than two weeks ago, I e-mailed the attached essay to both Herta Däuber-Gmelin and the head of the `Green? camp here, Joschka Fischer. Additionally, you may be certain that a limited number of those about the person of George Dubja concurrently know what I wrote, for I sent it off per e-mail to several of the Senators (e.g. Lieberman, McCain, Daschle) and both the CIA and the FBI! The intensity of George?s reaction to Schroeder?s ?Nein? to his Iraq politics ? even `Bratwurst,? a traditional German lunch-time quicky, has been expurgated from the White House?s menu! - and consequently Rumsfeld?s ostentatious snubbing of Peter Struck in Warsaw might be more readily understood if one proceeded upon the assumption that those involved were briefed on my line of reasoning. (You can learn more about my person by ticking my name on the title page of my website, given below.) In the ardent hope that you?ll take me serious ? even though George Dubja declared that he?d henceforth refuse to take Chancellor Gerhard serious ? and respond. I remain, Dr. Michael Conley, resident in the German Rhineland west of Cologne Von-Bodelschiwngh-Weg 23; D-50374 Erftstadt-Lechenich, Germany; Tel o2235/5913; <mike.conley@t-online.de> Dismantling the Statue of Liberty By Michael Conley (29 July 2002) mike.conley@t-online.de Among the initial essays I entered into this website http://thecosmiccontext.de (Omit the customary www !), you will find one in the section, ?Current Affairs? entitle ?The Nature of American Society,? dated 26 November 2001. You may still peruse it there today ? or, in an other context, my statement on Terrorisim of 4 July 2002 in which I argue that the essential element in the so-called, current ?war? has been overlooked. But the earlier essay is essential germane here. I argued November last that the world is currently witness to the stepwise displacement of democratic institutions in the United States of America with authoritarian ones, repeating, in a sense, the transformation of the Roman state from a republic to an authoritarian empire under its first emperor, Gaius Octavius, who assumed the designation, Augustus. I have had no reason since then to alter my judgement, rather the present incumbent in the office of president progressively reveals his intent; his marching plan becomes ever more discernable for those analytically inclined. I propose to offer my conclusions here for the critical evaluation of my reader, hoping my argument becomes so convincing that appropriate steps are promptly taken to hinder the ultimate outcome depicted. Let my deliberations, then, constitute, not a irrevocable, Delphic oracle, but rather a `self-emaciating prophesy? no longer relevant to the political scene. I. GATHERING IN THE CHIPS Let us examine the grand strategy of gathering in one interest group, faction, lobby or segment of the population after the other that has been in progress since the inauguration in 2001. This matter ? winning adherents -is a traditional preoccupation of American president, beginning even with George Washington time. After all, a politician?s first task is to get himself elected and his second task is to get himself re-elected. The current incumbent made a splash right from the beginning by reimbursing the American citizenry with a portion of their last annual taxes. That is so say, he paid them off for voting for him or, more accurately put, for not voting for Al Gore. But the current incumbent distinguishes himself by the radicalism with which he dispenses gifts and levels disfavors. He increasingly disregards the conventions of the last two centuries. His motto: Get them into the corral now, give them vested interests to comply, before events provoke second thoughts. A study of his tactics provides one with a running yardstick against which to adjudge the purpose behind them. A readiness to understand `patriotism,? on the one hand, as obeisant submission to the momentary political line of the president and `treachery,? on the other hand, as synonymous with disagreement is slowly losing its apocalyptical weight, if however still easily identifiable. But the concept of terrorism as `protracted war? ? a phrase Mao Tse-tung employed ? correctly! ? in labelling his struggle against the Chinese Nationalists, persists unabatedly. In point of fact, contending with terrorism, is not `warfare,? but rather a `police action? as I have demonstrated elsewhere. Despite the logical of the situation, this misuse of the term, `war,? nevertheless persists as the background rustle, the premeditated and indispensable soundtrack underlying current Washington politics. Permitting myself a brief discursion, let us note that even the Pentagon leadership, after its own fashion, now concedes to this fact. This became apparent when General Ralph Eberhart of the US Air Force, charged with the defense of the continental United States suggested that the POSSE COMITATUS ACT of 1878, part of legislation of the Reconstruction era following the Civil War should be modify - if not indeed rescinded! With blinders adjusted to obscure the civil consequences of what he was saying, he determined that the law restricts the legal rights of the military to engage in domestic law enforcement. The occasion? Administration lawyers had determined that Bush would have violate Posse Comitatus if he had called up National Guard troops to help provide security at airports nationwide. He was obliged to ask state governors to use their call-up authority to perform the same task. (Eric Schmitt, The New York Times, 22 July 2002) But in assuming `police? functions, the Pentagon would not be `militarising? the police, but rather openly `policifying? the military! And therewith, back to the progressive amassment of clientele We note the delay in the ratification of the international women?s bill of rights, the UN?s Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It was been derogated to the 17th place on the Senate?s waiting list, following Ashcroft?s assertion that the treaty ?needed more study.? He, among other, presumably feared that it might ?criminalize? Mother?s Day! So would the administration demonstrate it unanimity with the hairy chested misogynists it would attract to the camp. The proscriptions contained within the constitution of the United States, rigorously disassociating the state from complicity in any form with organized religious still stand. Their gradual dismemberment to the end of winning the irrevocable allegiance of the `Religious Right? proceeds unabated. In the sense of Marvin Olasky, a recognized intellectual apologist for the American Right and the originator of the concept, ?Compassionate Conservatism,? we are witness to the increasing role of the churches in social welfare work. And in the recent voucher arrangement, denominational schools are, de facto, paid out - by the state! - to assume functions in the field of educational which are universally assigned to state institutions elsewhere in the western world. Christian fundamentalists in America, convinced that they enjoy the president?s conspiratorial support, envision a situation in which government withdraws from social and educational work, leaving the field to church charities or `faith-based' organizations that are to enjoy special tax privileges. The "entitlement revolution" would be rolled back. Institutionalized Christianity would acquire an enormous increase in power over the lives of the citizenry. The expression, `the poor,? would gradually become an epithet referring to that element within the citizenry who resist submission to their ecclesiastical superiors are consequently excluded from their relief programs. Or to point out the parallels with the ancient past, uttering the phrase, "under God" would displace civic obligation of all who lived within the Roman Empire to sacrifice at the altar of the Roman emperor, in both cases, signs of patriotism. The term, `poor,? would become synonymous with the moniker, `sinner,? referring in both cases to the treacherous outcasts who, at the procurator?s wont, might well be crucified. The parallel decision to cut off US financing for the UN Population Fund on the grounds that it supported Chinese government agencies that force women to have abortions is pure façade. Essential is George Dubja?s retention of the Religious Right. What they claim is determinative. The de facto situation is essentially irrelevant. In this sense may one likewise adjudge the president?s gift of astronomical subventions to the Agro industry ? far removed from the upright peasant farmers often depicted - and the utterly unjustified tariff revisions upward for the steel mills. Add on the ?fast track? authority the president acquired from an ill-comprehending Congress in late July 2002. George Dubja?s clearly collared both business lobbyists and so-called free-trade advocates. But the president?s refusal to accede to the UN plan designed to reinforce the 1989 convention against torture by establishing a system of regular inspections of prisons and detention centers worldwide must be added on. The justification: aliens would then be able to poke their faces into penal institutions, interested in particular with the treatment of the some 500 Al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The rational is once again white wash. The genuine intent is to keep those imprisoned once the power takeover is consummated from the world-public?s eyes. The rejection of the International Criminal Court in Den Haag is part of the same act, pure flattery for the swellheads across the board. That the United States joins the ranks of such states as Libya, North Korea and Iraq in the process is of no importance! Significant is success in enhancing the glee of the host of his viral, gun-totting supporters in their delight at the unblemished uniqueness of US Citizenship. Moving on to the realm of International Affairs, one is struck by the president?s rejection of the Kyoto Treaty, setting upper limit on a nation?s emissions into the heavens and, further, with the president?s rapprochement with Russia. The purpose is clear. He would neutralize interference by his NATO allies by going over their heads. To mention but a single example, the clearly evident hostility from Berlin, Paris and elsewhere in Europe to the building of a U.S. national missile system, culminating in the scrapping of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty quickly abated once Putin nodded in agreement. But to the external aspects of the current White House line belongs likewise the president?s curious toleration of Ariel Sharon?s brutality in Palestine. ITEM: The preliminary results of a survey of malnutrition in Palestinian areas, conducted by John Hopkins University for the U.S. Agency for international Development, indicates that 30 percent of Palestinian children are suffering from chronic malnutrition and 21 percent from acute malnutrition (James Bennet, The New York Times, 27 July 02). Vis-à-vis the Near East, Western Europe has its hands tied behind its back. Consider but for a moment what would happen if a joint French/German force, intent upon alleviating the sufferings of the Palestinians, appear off the Israel coast! If George Dubja surrenders upon the Palestinians to the benevolent hand of Sharon, then that?s the way the cookie crumbles. We just have to lump it! And most recently we are confronted with TIPS (= Terrorism Information and Prevention System). TIPS figured in the president?s State of the Union speech, and again in Knoxville on April 8 when he said, "This is a program where truckers can report anything that might be suspicious." He added, "If people see anything suspicious, utility workers, you ought to report it. This is a way to organize that which already happens in our communities on a daily basis and a way to make the homeland more secure and more prepared." The Justice Department would provide reporting channels to truckers, train conductors, ship captains, utility employees and others who are ?regularly in the public? where ?they can spot anomalies ? things that are different? with ?a formal way to report suspicious terrorist activity.? Ashcroft scheduled a pilot run, based in ten cities, to begin in August 2002 while assuring the Senate during a hearing of the Judiciary Committee on 25. July that ?Operation TIPS, being developed in conjunction with a ?Citizen Corps,? will NOT be used to build up a new database. ?I?ve recommended that there be no database and I?ve been assured there won?t be one.? (AP, 26 July 2002) As a German, that designation, `Citizen Corps? which Ashcroft mentioned in passing instantly call to mind the `HJ,? the ?Hitler Jugend,? an affiliate of the Nazi Party, intent upon corralling the German youth of the 1930s. I shudder! But irrespective of how one understands that term, one must fear that Ashcroft is fibbing. The assertion is, in terms of the goal set, not credible. Would Ashcroft being suggesting that the rumours collected should simply be thrown away or that the centers receiving the program?s daily reports will run them through a shedder the following day? ITEM: A Secret Service agent in Detroit was placed on leave on 25 July after admitting that he scrawled anti-Islamic statements on a prayer calendar as he searched the Dearborn home of a man charged with smuggling bogus checks into the United States. The agent was not identified. (Adam Clymer, The New York Times, July 26, 2002.) The new scheme actually is intended to broaden out the intelligence base which Google and its siblings have nolons volens created in the course of the last decades. Jonathan Zittrain, director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, is very much to the point when he asserted, ?Many people assume they are a needle in a haystack, simply a face in the crowd. But the minute someone takes an interest in you, the search tool is what allows the rest of the crowd to dissolve.? (Jennifer 8.Lee, The New York Times, 26 July 02) If he was exaggerating at all, when he uttered these words, then Ashcroft?s TIPS will fill out the blank space still existing, the homes not integrated into the Internet. Mr. Barr called TIPS a "snitch system," saying, "A formal program, organized, paid for and maintained by our own federal government to recruit Americans to spy on fellow Americans, smacks of the very type of fascist or Communist government we fought so hard to eradicate in other countries in decades past." And for Mr. Leahy TIPS offered a homegrown example of excess today. "In 1917, the Justice Department formed the American Protective League, who had volunteers to report on people who might criticize their government," he said. "Sometimes they would turn into vigilante groups that raided newspaper offices, actually tarred and feathered some people." (Adam Clymer, The New York Times, July 26, 2002.) But in other respects as well, the intransigent of the U.S. Justice Department makes itself increasingly apparent. Consider the 46-page position paper filing with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond Virginia on 19 June 02. It declared that prisoners categorized as "enemy combatants" have 1) no right to a lawyer, and 2) may be held indefinitely. Civilian courts have no standing to intervene. Further: (inter alia) "There is no right under the laws and customs of war for an enemy combatant to meet with counsel concerning his detention, much less to meet with counsel in private, without military authorities present." For the moment, the determination applies to the Louisiana-born Yaser Esam Hamdi, 21, captured with Taliban forces and currently being held in a navy brig in Norfolk, Virginia, and to the Brooklyn, New York-born Jose Padilla, alias Abdullah al Muhajir. "This is really an astounding assertion of authority," said David Cole, a Georgetown University Law Professor. Frank Dunham jr., the federal public defender who provoked the ruling by attempting to defend Hamdi and who was given a deadline of three days to respond, said, "It is scarier than the dirty bomb. Now the government can label somebody something and then throw the key away forever." (Tom Jackman & Dan Eggen, The Washington Post, 21. June 02.) For the resident alien and the tourist from elsewhere in the world, the writ of habeus corpus no long exists as a self-evident right today. It would be but a slight additional step to extend the recently acquired practice to bona fide US citizen. Consider the protestors against the seizure of power in Minnesota, Vermont, and Arizona etc. Might they not, to use George Dubja?s words, likewise be "taken off the street"? And then one lands at the crux of the matter: `The Department of Homeland Security? and the trenchant urgency with which the president seeks to win the formal legislative approval of the House of Representatives and the Senate before their traditional summer recess. His energetic involvement suggests that the president is concerned, not so much with the welfare of ?the American people,? a phrase he never tires of reiterating, but with a flowchart of interdependent, indispensable steps, which must be in place as soon as possible if he and his acolytes are to achieve their calamitous goal ?A time of ?war,? he declared, ?is the wrong time to weaken the president?s ability to protect the American people. [The emperor Augustus likewise declared that he was protecting Rome?s citizenry and, indeed, `preserving |
| Name: | Thomas |
| E-mail address: | Thomas@private-krankenversicherung-links..de |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.private-krankenversicherung-links.de |
| Comments: | Just happened to be in the area and thought I'd sign the guestbook...:-) 'Óï |
| Name: | Rashida Masood |
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| Comments: | I
think your website is excellent. On Sunday 18th August, Ms. Roy visited
Karachi on a trip to Pakistan. She was warmly welcomed by thousands. On
Aug. 18th I was one of the some 2 thousand who gave her a standing
ovation. I was extremely impressed by her courage - when all the
Americans and Europeans are running away like rats - here is an Indian
who dares to come to the "enemy country". She spoke well, was her
eloquent and gentle self..
I would like to suggest that you add something about her trip to Pakistan on your website and generally update the content. Thank you |
| Name: | Steve Glickman |
| E-mail address: | SteveG@Pali.Ca |
| Homepage URL: | http://FairChoice.org |
| Comments: | The
corporate greed and irresponsibility we are currently witnessing by
WorldCom, Enron, Global Crossing, Haliburton and others is only the
symptom of a much larger problem that affects all of us - a
disintegration of the line separating economic power from political
power. It is this absolute power that corrupts; and government only
seems willing to provide band-aid solutions and cover-ups.
Please take a look at the enclosed op-ed piece announcing a new philosophy promoted by the Fair Choice Party. I believe it addresses the core issue concerning corporate domination and provides a desperately needed answer to how we can fairly and justly separate this destructive bond between greed and control. The FCP promotes the idea of giving larger votes to poorer people; and as you might guess it's rapidly gaining attention in the media and with the general public here in North America and around the world. Many sensible readers will recognize that with this innovation it's now possible to be both powerful and revolutionary, without calling for the downfall of either capitalism or democracy. In fact, we believe that with such a system in place the result would be far more robust capitalism and democracy! If you find these ideas as intriguing as many others have, feel contact me at 604-646-0560 or at SteveG@FairChoice.org. Thank you for your consideration. Best regards, Steve Glickman President Fair Choice Party Enclosures: Op-Ed Piece. Press Release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Turning Poverty into Political Power - More Votes for the Poor! Vancouver, Canada. - July 25, 2002 - A new national political party is emerging in Canada committed to giving more power to votes cast by the poor. The Fair Choice Party, or FCP, founded by Steve Glickman was designed to decrease the disparity of political influence between the wealthy elite and the vulnerable poorer majority by giving the poor a weighted vote. "The FCP is out to change the world; without dismantling our government or economic structures. Our goal is to permit the necessary reforms and gradually shift politics from within so that everybody gets a more equal say in who should lead." It is a "gentle revolution" designed to help the poor gain equality and opportunity through a new and innovative political process. Glickman adds, "When we say 'power to the people' we mean it. We're not trying to be the spokespeople on their behalf, but rather give them a very real method to have their voices heard." This new political alternative remains adaptive and has no rigid agendas or fixed political platforms - however, at the forefront of the movement are the goals of establishing environmental integrity, a sustainable economy, and a newfound respect for the democratic system. "The challenge is that the poor are the least vocal, least organized, least observed, and least interested in politics. They feel that the government doesn't want to hear what they have to say, so they have no interest in participating in the voting process. Instead, what we are witnessing nowadays is an expression of frustration through violent and destructive means." The FCP attempts to reverse this trend by empowering the poor politically and helping them make a difference constructively and non-violently. This vote scaling idea proposed seems to be the only viable way to permit the principles of democracy, capitalism, activism, and globalization to live side-by-side in harmony. With the increasing percentage of the wealth and power being held by fewer people, the poor are more disenfranchised now than any other time in history. The FCP is a practical vehicle for them to rise up, take back their power, and be counted. Glickman concludes, "Drastic situations sometimes call for new and provocative measures. There's been enough finger pointing and blame, it's time to find a way for each of us to look inwards and make small sacrifices so that we can all share and benefit together. Historically, this is how we have evolved and prospered. If we do nothing, the widening gulf between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' is certain to lead us into chaos." To learn more about this refreshingly ethical political party, visit www.FairChoice.org or contact Steve Glickman at 604-646-0560 or SteveG@FairChoice.org. A video and book explaining this movement in more detail is available on the website for a small donation. # # # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Op-Ed Piece The Fair Choice Party Provides a Radical Solution. Life is not fair, the old adage goes; but the Fair Choice Party says it can be - easily, openly, and immediately. Mankind's history has been a long a march from brutality and oppression to enlightenment and freedom. The past three millennia have seen a transition from the brutish "survival of the fittest" to a more enlightened "all people are created equal." Feudalism replaced barbarism. Kingdoms replaced feudalism. Nation-states replaced kingdoms. By turns; dictatorships, communism, socialism, and democracy have replaced royalty. But the common denominator of this transition - so far - has been the fact that political power and economic power continue to be inextricably woven together. Arabian monarchs still have political and economic control. In China, communists maintain total control. Mafia-like tyrants rule much of the rest of the Third World. Even in democracies like Canada and the United States, those with economic power also yield the political power - the ruling elite who run the corporations from their high towers. Meanwhile, the common person - be they laborer, student, farmer, blue collar, or white collar; effectively have neither. Until now. The Fair Choice Party is a new emerging political party, which proposes a way for the march of human history to take its next big step towards freedom. The FCP proposes a "gentle revolution" which continues to embrace capitalism and democracy while splitting the historic marriage of economic and political power. How? Simply put, you can seek wealth and insulation, or participation and responsibility, but you cannot continue to have absolute control over both. The Fair Choice Party proposes to scale vote size inversely to wealth; so that the less you have the more vote you get, and the more you have the less of a vote you get. While sounding radical, this idea is not that far fetched. It is similar to the redistribution of power that occurred in ancient Greece, or with the abolition of slavery, or the inclusion of women in the voting process, or the drafting of the Magna Carta, or the Bill of Rights. Nowadays, we see the information that controls everything in the hands of big business, while for the rest of us it's just a giant competition fed by petroleum. We need to find a way to use our technology to once again establish equality - that's the innovation of the FCP. The implications of the Fair Choice Party are staggering. Some people react without thought, simply dismissing the idea; but lets take a minute to examine what the consequences would be. For example, sweatshop workers would obtain the political power they need to develop opportunities and improve their working conditions. Crime and drug infested communities now have an opportunity to clean-up their cities and neighborhoods themselves. The environment would be better protected and stewardship would prevail. Products would become more efficient, last longer, be safer, and cheaper. The result, to the analytical mind, would be increased production, increased participation, increase |