Lula goes to Davos

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

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