March 05, 2005
NYC Letter: EU, "We'd Rather They Didn't Gang Rape"
UPDATE 03.06.05: Read more about the indomitable Mukhtaran Mai here and here. Support her good work here. [The original post follows.]
The UN, EU, "and France, in particular" burn up headlines condemning America for thinking to circumscribe their ginned up abortion rights. Will they have any thunderous huff left for the likes of Mukhtaran Mai?
Five men who were sentenced to death for gang raping a woman on the orders of a village council are set to walk out of jail after a Pakistani high court acquitted them yesterday. The two-member court in the city of Multan also converted the death term of a sixth accomplice to life imprisonment.
Now, Ms. Mai is just a Pakistani woman, and this sort of thing has a long cultural pedigree, and Pakistan is such an iffy proposition, and besides...America! Let's not take our eye off the ball here, folk. America is largely to blame for filling Ms. Mai's head with notions of equality before the law, the inherent dignity of her person, and real protections in law. Really, if Afghanistan and Iraq had been left to the UN-Euro-French go-slow programme, Ms. Mai would not be feeling such terrible distress about her gang rape. Sophisticated internationalists understand rape's just one of those crazy things. What's important is the right to an unsanitary but legal abortion and then to get on with life's bright promise.
Our Euro and French friends are going to get around to Ms. Mai, well, not in her lifetime, and not her particular case, but someone's very much like it, give or take a rapist. Maybe her grandchildren's grandchildren will see a better day before the law. For now no outrage for Ms. Mai. Sorry. Remember...America! Bad! America! Bad!
The victim, Mukhtaran Mai, broke down when told the news: "That is the last resort for us," she said. She added that she would challenge the decision before the supreme court.Mukhtaran was raped in June 2002 when she went to the village council after her 12-year-old brother was allegedly sodomised by men from the powerful Mastoi tribe.
She refused to accept the council's ruling on how to settle the dispute, and the council ordered the men to rape her in turn as more than 100 people sat outside.
It breaks the heart.
Posted by Damian at March 5, 2005 04:45 PMRemember...America! Bad! America! Bad!
No ! No ! No !
America ! good ! America ! good !
U.S. forces fire on a car carrying a freed Italian journalist
Posted by: kumiko at March 5, 2005 05:07 PMC'est vrai que cela craint, cette histoire !
"Giuliana avait des informations et les militaires américains ne voulaient pas qu'elle s'en sorte vivante", a affirmé M. Scolari en évoquant "une embuscade" américaine dans des déclarations faites à la sortie de l'hôpital militaire Celio de Rome où la journaliste a été admise.
Un agent des services secrets italiens a été tué en cherchant à la protéger et deux autres ont été blessés."
Posted by: nathalie at March 5, 2005 05:25 PMMs. Kumiko,
It is difficult work being a wit. Usually the first place to start is acquainting oneself with the standing facts. Since you are either too busy or perhaps too lazy you can find them here. The third comment provides the necessary exposition.
The second essential task of wit is to in fact be witty. To amuse. Inspire mirth. Tease out an appreciation for the clever turn. It appears this second essential has escaped you as completely as the first.
Thank you for your expression of sympathy for Ms. Mai, the topic of this post, had you thought to express such.
DGB
Posted by: Damian Bennett at March 5, 2005 05:29 PMFew month ago, the US Army killed journalists, in order them not to witness what they saw.
Today, they try to kill an Italien journalist woman.
Is that Democraty ?
M. Labque,
Well, of course, you believe this because it pleases your little inner man to do so. But belief is propositional and that means all the facts must rally round in support. Alas, the facts do not. And such a sensational story, yet not a peep about it on any of the wires or papers.
Nor does the accusation make any sense on its own. If the Americans meant to kill Giuliana Sgrena, then why after stopping the car and rendering its passengers harmless, why, M. Labeque, did they fail to do so?
How inconvenient for your personal fantasy.
Now best loosen those elastics around your head and allow a little circulation.
Thank you for your expression of sympathy for Ms. Mai, the topic of this post, had you thought to express such.
DGB
BTW, post in English or provide your own translation or your post will be deleted.
Posted by: Damian Bennett at March 5, 2005 05:47 PMSig. Patricio,
We understand you to be upset, what with the under-reported wholesale killings of journalists and the demise of the unicorns and the unspannable distance to Never-never-land. Are any of these democracy? Well, no, signor, these are all delusions.
Of course, in a democracy it is incumbent on the citizen to properly inform himself so as to intelligently participate in the civitas. You might want to look into this novelty. Otherwise source your fabulous claims.
Thank you for your expression of sympathy for Ms. Mai, the topic of this post, had you thought to express such.
DGB
Posted by: Damian Bennett at March 5, 2005 06:01 PMYep Patricio, it's basically obvious Irak was a far better place for journalists when Saddam ruled this country with as much efficiency as Mussolini had in yours, when his Italian Social Republic was the ally of the national-socialists... defeated by Americans.
Even if it's a sad event, I can't cry a damn tear drop on a fuc*** fascist (or communist if you want) newspaper journalist. Nope, never.
And what else? Would you have got out of your bed, silently petting with a sickle and a hammer, if your dear collaborationist Giuliana Sgrena had been tortured, raped and stoned by the "glorious iraki resistance"? Would you have whined as you're doing now?
Last thing: President Bush did apologize for that, and asked for an investigation. Have you ever heard about the least apology, not talking about investigation, concerning the 200,000,000 murders commited by communists? I think that could be a far better job for Giuliana Sgrena...
I suggest you leave to North Korea, a worker's paradise where evil Amerikkkans don't shoot at people's newspaper komrades.
I've seen this sort of paranoia before in Lebanon. One meets people of no actual consequence to anything saying that the US government is after THEM personally for something they think.... blah blah blah - more nonsense from people without anything real in their lives.
Posted by: Joe N. at March 7, 2005 05:37 PM




