"Be friend each stranger in the night, help to make his burdens light, lift up the fallin’ ones and be a friend, shed a tear, share a sight, share his fears don’t pass him by, but for the grace of God it could be you instead of him” - Johnny Cash

Ein gutes Jahrzehnt habe ich voller Inbrunst zum Gott der Weltrevolution gebetet. Zu den wenigen Dingen aus dieser Zeit, die ich hin und wieder vermisse, gehört die absolute Verantwortungslosigkeit. Ich gehörte zu einer kleinen Elite moralischer Übermenschen, die die Antwort auf jede Frage und die Lösung für jedes Problem kannten. Und also konnte ich tun und lassen was immer ich wollte und mit dem Finger auf alle Nichteingeweihten zeigen. Spenden für Krankenhäuser in Afrika? Pah! Spießerkacke! Bestenfalls ein Tropfen auf den heißen Stein namens Kapitalismus. Suppenküchen für die Gescheiterten? …

Schöner Text im Wall Street Journal über eine ärgerliche Entscheidung:

Not Nobel Winners

“In Olso yesterday, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to the Burmese monks whose defiance against, and brutalization at the hands of, the country’s military junta in recent weeks captured the attention of the Free World.
The prize was also not awarded to Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders who were arrested and in some cases beaten by police earlier this year while protesting peacefully against dictator Robert Mugabe.
Or to Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam arrested this year and sentenced to eight years in prison for helping the pro-democracy group Block 8406.
Or to Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Uyyouni, co-founders of the League of Demanders of Women’s Right to Drive Cars in Saudi …

Wiesenthal Centre to Frankfurt Book Fair Director: “2007 Fair Opens as Homage to Catalonia in the Language of Holocaust Denial”

“The letter pointed to a catalogue of the Fair, entitled “Guest of Honour Frankfurt Book Fair 2007: Cultura Catalana Singular i Universal” which, “among its list of activities, presents the exhibit ‘NOU-NOW. Contemporary Catalan Photography’ showing at the Fotografie Forum Internationa. The photo selected to represent the exhibit in this catalogue (page 15, [1]) is ‘El Mur’ (The Wall) of Joan Fontcuberta, featuring an Arab man in ‘keffiyeh’ headscarf facing the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank.”
The Centre clarified, “What makes this photo (3.25 ft x 5 ft in dimension) an unmitigated outrage is the substance of its caption: ‘The Wall in …

Hermann L. Gremliza, Herausgeber der kommunistischen Konkret, fürchtet sich wie immer vor Verrätern und Konterrevolutionären, pardon: vor Scharfrichter-Konvertiten und Springers Starautoren natürlich, wollen die doch der Linken ihre Lieblingsmörder madig machen.

Ingo Way hat sich die dialektische Rechtfertigungsakrobatik noch einmal in Ruhe angeschaut: Gremliza gratuliert Guevara (und Mao gleich dazu)

Auch beim Publius Pundit diskutiert man über Guevara bis die Fetzen fliegen: Battleground Che. Ich habe diesen kleinen Kommentar beigesteuert:

“The Germans, like the Koreans, were part of a huge and terrible experiment. As perpetrators, victims or bystanders, they witnessed a huge part of their country going down the road to serfdom. But if you believe, this experience forever immunized them against the virus called socialism, you could not be more wrong. In 2007 an astonishing 57% of East Germans and a still frightening 45% of West Germans think that “socialism is a good idea gone wrong”.
But even more telling than these numbers is their unshakable admiration for the pop star of revolution: Ernesto Guevara, whom they usually call by his famous nickname of course.
No, we are not talking about the looney left. We are talking about the No.1 …

Humberto Fontova sagt und schreibt die ganze unheimliche Wahrheit über Ernesto Guevara und seine Fangemeinde. Unbedingt sehenswert:

Exposing the Real Che Guevara

Exposing Che Guevara & Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him

Exposing Che Guevara & Useful Idiots (part 2 of 2)

Die BBC ehrt den beliebtesten Massenmörder aller Zeiten gleich zwei, drei, viele Male.

Johan Norberg hat übrigens eine bessere Idee: “Why don´t someone find out the exact dates Cuban social democrats and other advocates of democracy were executed by Che, and then we can celebrate them instead?”

Daniel Henninger vom Wall Street Journal fragt sich, was die meisten Europäer am großen Traum aller Neocons, dem Demokratieexport, eigentlich am meisten stört: die Mittel, mit denen exportiert werden soll und über die sich ja unter Demokraten prima streiten ließe, oder aber das Exportgut selbst.

Democracy Has Been Demoted - Burma’s monks missed word that it is now out of favor.

“If before deciding to fill Rangoon’s streets the “saffron-robed” monks had spent more time reading pundits and foreign-policy intellectuals in Washington or Western Europe, they would have known that democracy has been demoted.
The Bush Doctrine’s critics will say this is unfair, that they support aspiring democracies, that their critique of the neocons is mostly about Iraq. Perhaps, but I would argue that this tidy distinction--"we only mean Iraq, we’re all for Burma"--has been lost on the popular …