Lula goes to Davos

kjkhoo at softhome.net kjkhoo at softhome.net
Mon Jan 27 08:49:59 PST 2003


At 11:37 PM -0500 26/1/03, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> > It was impossible not to be moved. Disregarding the Petrobras
>> baloons - the oil giant is a sponsor of the World Social Forum
>> - the landscape was one which inspired: flags of Palestine, of
>> the MST, of Iraq, of Brazil, of Chile, Cuba, Uruguay, of dozens
>> of socialist movements, of every conceivable social movement
>> and left political tendency, from the PT all the way to a huge
>> contingent of esperanto proselytisers and another of anarcho-
>> punks.
>
>> Thiago Oppermann
>> 26.1.2003
>
>If I were Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Uruguay, dozens of socialist movements, every
>conceivable social movement and left political tendency, from the PT all the
>way to a huge contingent of esperanto proselytisers and anarcho punks, I'd
>be insulted and distressed that I was compared, in terms of uplift and
>inspiration, with Iraq. Has Bush's planned aggression really turned that
>thug state into a member of the resistance?

Evidently, here's someone who believes the Iraqis of Baghdad, all four million of them, deserve the "shock and awe" that's coming to them, have their city taken out, the power and water supply done in...

I'll remember this the next time I see the US flag flying in some crowd...

Really -- search as I could through Thiago's post, I nowhere found the Baathist regime mentioned. Still, the presence of Iraqi flags is enough to set DP frothing. Should I then froth the next time I see the US flag in some crowd with Iraqi, Palestinian, Chilean, whatever, flags?

kj khoo



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