POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARK MACKINNON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Sorry, but I think Aung San Suu Kyi is a bit off her nut.
The press - that creation of American imperial interests and
huge corporations - has treated her as some kind of sainted person standing
against the forces of darkness.
I don't see that at all, and she has made many statements
which do not even make a lot of sense.
First, of all the world's tyrannies, Burma is not one of the
worst by a very good measure.
In a really ugly place, she would simply have been
"disappeared" long ago.
Instead, she was given house arrest with the occasional
access to press and other outsiders.
And of course, when a bloody monster like Hillary Clinton
praises her, we know something is not quite right.
As to the Nobel Peace Prize, well, other winners include
Barack Obama, who is now busy slaughtering thousands of people by drones; Henry
Kissinger, a genuine war criminal if there ever was one; Andrei Sakharov,
father of the Russian hydrogen bomb; Simon Peres, political father of Israel's
nuclear arsenal; Menachim Begin, an old Irgun terrorist with lots of blood on
his hands; Al Gore, the biggest phony pitchman since Oral Roberts; and Mother
Teresa, a religious zealot of questionable ethics.
