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My first encounter with Peter BooHoo left a bad taste in his mouth...ahem. It was at the AANF convention in Detroit in 96, I believe. For two straight nights someone set off the fire alarms in the Hotel and scared the daylights out of the children. We all had to exit our rooms and stand round the hallways...and that was awful enough because you got to see all those princeses of ours without their disguises...wasn't pretty.

So it happened again the third night and no one bothered to muster outside...which could have been deadly had there really been a fire. The next day I was in some conference room when Peter stuck his pink and green head in to say someone told him he'd seen a Black employee of the Hotel pull the alarm. I shot back indignantly that the hotel security chief told me they'd caught the guy and it was..............and I gave the name of a prominant doctor of ours...a guy about as likely to pull that stunt as an employee of the hotel...black or green. To Peter I was marked as a traitor from then on.

Peter is a racist...should come as no surprise. Someone who has an unfounded prejudice against an entire people or religion won't stop with one set. If you hate Blacks you'll probably hate Mexicans and Puerto Ricans and Muslims too...If you examine Peter's hearsay claim that it was a Black employee you'll see how unlikely it is and that one of our own skunks made this story up to increase their enjoyment. And of course Peter loved believing it and spreading it...like he does any slander against a Muslim, Arab, Kurd, Turk...you name it. This despicable racism is another thing they've made "purely" and truly the mark of an Assyrian.

If there's one constant in our conventions it's that Nimrod will bore you to death without dying himself, Jackie will wear a knit suit that never fits...and some bunch of our punks will set off alarms..spray fire extinguishers in the hallways, steal the wallpaper and anything else from the rooms that shines.

What are the odds that Black employees who want to keep their jobs would pull such a prank? And that they'd do it at ALL our convetions. Do these guys have a union in all hotels where we go? How much MORE likely is it that it was one of our own? We do the shit...then we blame those we think are even lower than we are. Peter and the boys...these heroes... should have the courage, stamina and elegance Afro-Americans have shown in their struggle to free us all...both in America and South Africa.

Peter was also flabbergasted at the prices I was asking for my sculptures...and getting. It was at that convention he was giving books of his atrocious poetry away gratis..."published" by the same people struggling underneath Aprim's "books"...lord love a duck. Sometime later, when I first began posting, he welcomed my call to do something about overriding Nimrod's veto and getting the Shumirum installed in Chicago...by firing back that this was not a fit subject of discussion...that it was a "personal" matter about payment between Nimrod and myself...they had more "important" things to discuss. Now, we all know had Peter received ten cents for his poems he would have been crowing and been congratulated for his Assrianiamidoodleness by the rest of the boys. It was personal alright...between me and Peter's feelings of being snubbed by Life...which he's responded to with vitriolic attacks against Muslims...especially those who "took away his country" ie:his poetry...robbing him of the chance to be a great Assyrian poet.

The Shumirum Monument had been paid for already...so it wasn't about payment...and I was hardly going to get rich and famous from all the notoriety the installment of Shumirum would get me...I mean Ashurbanipal hadn't made my fortune...if that's what they were concerned about. What they don't want is the standard of achievement to be raised...for the measure of what is a significant achievement to be lifted off the floor where it lies gasping right now...by definition to them...same as when I post...anyone's artistic or other real successes, as Assyrians and with Assyrian topics, NECESSARILY diminishes their own stature. Their position...their status, as low as it is, can only be maintained by making sure NO ONE climbs anywhere...and we wonder why we're where we are.

Odd isn't it? I mean they are determined to keep being "Assyrian", such a low-life and pedestrian thing just so THEY don't feel outclassed and out gunned...that's why Peter keeps his forum at such an infantile level and scolds people for not talking nicey-nicey. And that's also the reason he didn't want me or Tiglath or Jeff on there saying the kinds of things that would stump the rest of them cold and make them "look" bad...doesn't matter how bad they STAY, how incapable of defending their "believes", it just shouldn't be made apparent and pointed out and laughed at. They feel SO damn low and shakey in their achievements that they dare not allow the slightest chance or indication or post or monument that will throw their shabbiness into sharp relief.

They take great pride in their cars and watches and salaries and real estate and those kinds of things, because they have nothing remotely "Assyrian" about them. But when it comes specifically to Assyrian things, like art or culture or speech and writing and the passion and convictions that should drive those things...they are the sorriest bunch of inpompetants you'll ever see...even though they'll LOOK great and ACT polite while crapping all over themselves and this noble Heritage. They've made being Assyrian into a shamefull thing...look at their resuts...while they labor like ants to make a great thing of their Christianity. They betray their Homelands daily and yet seek to present themselves as the true sons and daughters of that land. You can't have it both ways and they don't. That's why they haven't the soul...the core beliefs, the "talent" or their heads on straight, instead of facing Jerusalem

Right now we're finishing up my new art site. It won't have a forum...just sculpture. I have some really talented Assyrian pals who are making it. I'm sitting here writing descriptions and providing other details about each piece and I just came to a portrait I started some years back of Narsai David...not the one cast in bronze but another one I wound up smashing. It was in clay and plaster and fortunately I took a shot of it at some point. I took his face and built around it an ancient Assyrian beard and hair and generally wanted to see what one of us today would look like if we looked looked the way they showed themselves.

So I get to the "title" of the piece...even though it's unfinished and isn't anywhere...it's still a sulpture...and it hits me..."Narsai David as King Abgar who betrayed the Assyrians". See how powerful Art can be? More people will visit my site than will ever read Aprim's "book"...or Hanna's cartoons or read Peter's poetry, even if they give them away. And I get to call the sculpture what I want...let them go and cry out their eyes to whomever they please. With this title I get to "write" history and do it accurately...as much as anyone does...certainly as much as the Christian apologists they dig up. I get to fix Narsai and fit him where he belongs...I get to describe Abgar the way I see him...as I have every right to do...as they describe him as a "hero" for making Jews of us all because he had the clapp. And I get to load the information onto a truck and send it barrelling along the internet highway all the way round the world.

There's "opportunity"....and "opportune"....and then there's "opportunist" and "opportunistic". The boys would kill to have people buy anything Assyrian they put out. They naturally assume that we're built alike...I am an Assyrian after all...no? So, they presume, I work like they do. But they're Christians trying to hide behind Ashur...I AM Assyrian and I'm not hiding anywhere...that's where the difference comes from...I'm no great or even minor talent. I'm just a shmuck who finally got kicked the right way one day at a museum viewing our own magnificence...and it changed everything. That's where any "talent" I have came from...it came from CARING...that's all.

What they wanted desperately to MAKE true and spread around was that, like them, I couldn't sell sculpture or anything else to save my life until I "figured out" this Assyrian pride scam...that I could get Assyrians to fork over thousands of dollars by cleverly manipulatng their desires...well...isn't that what art and music does? Isn't that what Peter tried to do until he gave his poems away? So they went on and on about how much MONEY I was making and what an opportunist I was and the rest of it...and when they stopped the Shumirum and killed it through well aimed neglect...they felt releived, like they'd "saved" something....but what? They'd saved themselves from having to be held up to the Shumirum by way of comparison...they avoided having to include me in their "pantheon of stars"...where the rest would have looked puny indeed...not because they have to be, but because that's all they aspire to. We can produce and have the capacity to produce excellent artists, writers and all the rest...but not when we start out removing an artist's painting because he uses the wrong color. And not when we cringe in abject fear of one putz...or is it that we don't have a "talent" for being Assyrian and making Assyrian things because we don't really care?

I could easily have proven them wrong...if I cared to, which is what they wanted and hoped and worked for...which is what we have always done...hurt and maimed our aspiring young people so they'll go away...by simply walking away and making other sculpture for other people...or...maybe...Assyrian sculpture for other people...now THAT would fry where their balls used to be!!! But I wouldn't do it. In the first place...fuck them, just who decided they get to be whatever they claim to be? Who made them the crossing guards and hall monitors of Assyria? In the second place I didn't do any of this for anyone's sake but my own and maybe my mother's too...wanting no accolades or praise and not caring for condemnation...but they WOULD condemn me and loudly too if I'd go and sell Assyrian pieces to other people...because I get to DEFINE it as I create it...and if they would say to those people that those weren't REAL Assyrian pieces...that they were not ACCURATE, as they do every chance they get...most sane people would say...well okay then, where are YOURS...to set the record straight...to which my reply would be that they don't want to set anything "straight"...they don't want an accurate record...they want NO RECORD. These people are all about finally killing the Heritage....certainly not about promoting or reviving it. LOOK AT THEM! I left when I wanted to...not when they decided I had to go, not when they decided I was an "enema" to the Assrin Nayshun.
I began working on monumets over 20 years ago because I saw a marvellous opprtunity to get us out in front of the public, on the world stage. I felt it was an opportune moment to do so...certainnly that it needed doing and of course you could call me an opportunist in that I seized the opportunity and ran with it. But not opportunistic...that's Peter...taking every chance he can make to promote himslef by bringing the level of ACTUAL Assyrian accomplishments DOWN to his level. I tried to RAISE it and wouldn't be satisfied until I saw myself being surpassed by a horde of Assyrian kids far more talented and capable then myself.

Peter and Hanna and the Ghassman TALK a great game...they all do. But Peter can't afford to let people ACTUALLY do anything...because HE can't. As long as it remains in the realm of talking, diclaring, signing petitions and "publishing" atrocious books and giving away poetry...these guys are indeed the champs...very hard to beat at their own game. What they are desperately afraid of...what makes them growl and snap and snarl and whimper and run and hide is when anyone actually does something Assyrian and get's PAID FOR IT, does something that MERITS payment...cause we all know people don't part with their cash easily. Their words cost them nothing to get or give...and as long as it's a matter of words and words alone...they can win it all...and never realize they're losing it all...all the time.

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