Cry The Beloved Country
Submitted by NYCVG on Tue, 12/21/2021 - 12:12pm
The title is from an important novel about human rights abuses in South Africa under Apartheid. Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, published in 1948.
It is fitting for the news today from Afghanistan:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/21/afghanistan-protesters-kabul-r...
[video:https://twitter.com/i/status/1473201162924949504]
Video: Protesters in Kabul called for the release of Afghanistan's frozen bank assets.#TOLOnews pic.twitter.com/DdbXttG2lk
— TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) December 21, 2021
It is US, the bad guys, holding the frozen funds while Afghanis starve. Unbearable.
Comments
Kinda like Manchin saying
poor people might use the Child Tax Credit to buy drugs.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
They who think the control of money is power
are at a loss when that control is gone.
Playing with fire will cause blisters.
The greedy fuchs aim to gain, but in the end,
they are the losers. Stop starving children and
bombing innocents, perhaps time will be less
unkind.
question everything
Wish "time" would speed it up a bit...
- Karl Marx
It'll be interesting to see how a second 9/11 (i.e. specifically, a mass attack on US turf by angry Middle-Eastern terrorists/asymmetrical-warriors whose targets include some people/symbols who/that actually deserve it) plays out/is reacted to next time around...are people ready to hear the John Brown parallels?
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
You whooped us so we’re going to let you starve
including the women and children who we’ve been told they were the reason we couldn’t pull out of the country. Where’s the outrage from those who said that? Our hypocrisy is boundless!
I read that book in high school, actually
I remembered my favorite line well enough to look it back up now:
This quote notwithstanding, though, I don't particularly see the connection; the main thing I remember about that book is the Zulu pastor running around on some personal quest between bouts of meticulously counting out his meager savings in charmingly archaic forms such as shillings and traveler's checks (I read John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me in middle-school, too - I'm not even sure what a traveler's check is, but they were a really hot item in the mid-20th Century, weren't they?).
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
I remember
Also, in this context, Shakespeare, sort of, "We are but flies to wonton boys. They kill us for their sport."
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