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| Pinter blasts ’Nazi America’ and ’deluded idiot’ Blair |
| 2003-06-11 |
| If I knew who this guy was, I'd probably really be pissed. The playwright Harold Pinter last night likened George W Bush's administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the US was charging towards world domination while the American public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched. Can't these lefty boobs come up with something more original? Caesar's Rome? Napoleon's France? Saddam's Iraq? Pinter, 72, was at the National Theatre in London to read from War, a new collection of his anti-war poetry that had been published in the press in response to events in Iraq. Sounds like a real hopping night out. In conversation on stage with Michael Billington, the Guardian's theatre critic, Pinter said the US government was the most dangerous power that had ever existed. Feel free to spread that news around, Harry. It might cut down on a lot of outside assholes poking into our business. Thanks. The American detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where al-Qaida and Taliban suspects were being held, was a concentration camp. I read where the guys they released recently gained an average of 13 pounds while they were inside. Some concentration camp. The US population had to accept responsibility for allowing an unelected president to take power and the British were exhausted from protesting and being ignored by Tony Blair, a "deluded idiot" Pinter hoped would resign. Thanks Harry, you elitist slob. Sorry we don't know any better. Forgive us, we know not what we do. After a big operation for cancer, Pinter returned to public life last year to speak out against American belligerence. He called it a return from a "personal nightmare" to an "infinitely more pervasive public nightmare". Sound like he's still on lots and lots of pain pills. The playwright said: "The US is really beyond reason now. It is beyond our imagining to know what they are going to do next and what they are prepared to do. There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany wanted total domination of Europe and they nearly did it. The US wants total domination of the world and is about to consolidate that. Nazi Germany...blah, blah, blah... World domination...blah,blah,blah... "In a policy document, the US has used the term 'full-spectrum domination', that means control of land, sea, air and space, and that is exactly what's intended and what the US wants to fulfil. They are quite blatant about it." Just wait until we invade the sun and take that over, Harry. Come see us when you're freezing your ass off. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Pinter blamed "millions of totally deluded American people" for not staging a mass revolt. Unlike you, Harry, most of us "totally deluded Americans" have real jobs and have to go to work everyday to support ourselves and our families. We don't have time to sit around and write antiwar poetry books and stage mass revolts. The people that do have the time to do this are such a bunch of clowns that nobody takes them seriously.Kinda like you. He said that because of propaganda and control of the media, millions of Americans believed that every word Mr Bush said was "accurate and moral". The US population could not be let off scot-free for putting the country under the control of an "illegally elected president - in other words, a fake". Illegally elected...blah, blah, blah... He asked: "What objections have there been in the US to Guantanamo Bay? At this very moment there are 700 people chained, padlocked, handcuffed, hooded and treated like animals. It is actually a concentration camp." Seeing how they're trying to kill us, Harry, you won't hear a lot of talk here about letting them out so they can take a nice stroll down Main Street. The only reason most Americans are pissed about them being in Gitmo, is that they're still alive to be put there. "I haven't heard anything about the US population saying: 'We can't do this, we are Americans.' Nobody gives a damn. And nor does Tony Blair." Pinter added: "Blair sees himself as a representative of moral rectitude. He is actually a mass murderer. But we forget that - we are as much victims of delusions as Americans are." Quick! More anti delusion pills for Mister Pinter! Chop-chop!! In a British society where people were increasingly encouraged not to use their brains, the only way to protest was by "thought, intelligence and solidarity". Deep, Harry. Really, deep. And nobody cares. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #15 Hmmmmmmmmm..... IIRC, if you were a German, and complained about Hitler's government, you either stopped a bullet, were hanged, or sent to a concentration camp to be gassed or worked to death. There are thousands of people in our nation that make absolutely absurd statements about our current president. I have not seen one of them "disappear" (damnit!). Walter Cronkite seems pretty willing to slander George Bush every chance he gets, without having to worry about being dragged into an unmarked panel van in the dark of the night, never to be heard from again. Ditto for Peter Jennings, Wolf Blitzer, and all the crew at CBS and NBC. Haven't seen any of them go to jail, much less into a "concentration camp". It would be nice if some of these socialistic idiots had at least a nodding acquaintance with the history they keep referring to. So far, about as close as they've come is about 160 degrees to the left. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-06-11 15:39:53 |
| #14 Poor Mr. Pinter... supposed to be a writer and yet apparently unaware of "Godwin's Law"... |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2003-06-11 14:56:34 |
| #13 I really wish all these idiots would stop ANY comparisons with the Nazi regime. As someone who lived through the worst of it I can only say: Mr. Pinter, nothing compares to it. NOTHING |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-06-11 14:28:59 |
| #12 unelected president! i am so sick of hearing this! the people who say this should learn about the american political system before commenting! If goddam Gore would of won his own home state of Tenn. then he would be president now and now and not Bush! But the liberal press barely touches on this and instead concentrates on chads in florida! if the democrats were not such sore losers these aholes in the world would know nothing of chads! |
| Posted by: Dan 2003-06-11 14:17:18 |
| #11 This guy is a real piker. I was engaged last week in a raging debate with a liberal buddy of mine who is always harping on the intolerance, bigotry and hatred of the right-wing. I countered that liberals are more intolerant and full of hatred than conservatives. But with liberals they self-delude themselves as inclusive, open, diverse, etc. AS LONG AS YOU DON'T DISAGREE WITH THEIR VIEWPOINTS. I think I will send along this article as yet another example of liberal hate speech. |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-06-11 14:12:05 |
| #10 Why do these fools always make the Hitler comparison? Perhaps because some part of their subconscious minds realize that they themselves have become the new Nazis. Of course they can't accept that -- so they sling the charge at their opponents. |
| Posted by: closet neo-con 2003-06-11 13:57:21 |
| #9 Harold 'Pinhead' Pinter is a pathetic relic from a shameful age when communism was regarded as an 'alternative' to democracy and capitalism. Pinter is an old socialist romantic/artist who is drunk on the ideology of communism and unable to put this bottle down. Admit it, Harry: 1) you have a problem.. 2) You need help... etc. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-06-11 13:41:16 |
| #8 When he winds up dead, tell the cops to talk to Mike N. from Rantburg. I'm not going to do much to him, I figure a good scare will drop that fossil dead in an instant. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2003-06-11 13:25:26 |
| #7 There are times when it really bothers me that playwrights, poets, and artists are the only people who manage to profit from their psychotic episodes. What about the engineers, programmers and other folk like me? It's an unfair world... |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-06-11 13:19:22 |
| #6 I love Pinter's pitch to the British people: "All you stupid people out there, follow me!" Straight outta Dale Carnegie, it is. |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-06-11 12:52:02 |
| #5 Pinter, 72 yr old playwrite / elitist = socialist dinosaur. The Soviet Bloc is dead, and his kind are dying off as well with little or no cadres to replace them. The 'masses' that they have chased after for the last century have totally rejected them. Waaaaaaaaaah! What they see as world domination is just the world flushing them down the toilet. Take that Pinter - dirty swirly! |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-06-11 12:44:29 |
| #4 Cyber Sarge, The founder of Baathism, Michael Aflaq, was profoundly inspired by the Nazis, and the Germans tried to take over Iraq with the help of Vichy France in 1941, only to get "shock and awe" from the British. Saddam's idol |
| Posted by: Ernest Brown 2003-06-11 12:36:32 |
| #3 I have just one question for Mr. Painter: Where do I pick up my cool storm trooper uniform? We just defeated a Tyrant that was JUST like the Germans. You don't even have to chenge the names, I am sure that Bathist party is something close to national socialists. Isn't it interesting that all the Commies think we are Nazi and all the Arabs think we are Jewish lap dogs? Since we can't win the argument, let's just play along. I say we invade that socialist country to our north, just like Hitler did in Poland. Then we take on Mexico and down into South America. Who's with me? ON TO WORLD DOMINATION! HEIL BUSH! HEIL BUSH! Give me a break! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC California Chapter) 2003-06-11 12:16:24 |
| #2 Ah, a playwright. Well, we better all listen up sharp, hadn't we? |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-06-11 12:12:47 |
| #1 "The US population had to accept responsibility for allowing an unelected president to take power..." Er, Is that like the Iraqis were responsible for Saddam? I'm so confused... "In a British society where people were increasingly encouraged not to use their brains, the only way to protest was by "thought, intelligence and solidarity"." Sadly, he's right about the lack of brain-engagement, and it has been demonstrated. A million shuffling zombies took to the streets of London shrieking and muttering unintelligibly a few months back. And Harold, you were probably there. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-06-11 12:02:02 |