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Posted by farid (Guest) - Saturday, October 18 2003, 10:36:12 (EDT)
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It takes awhile sometimes to get the right perspective, time to step back a little and contemplate something you can't quite wrap your brain around when it happens, especially if you've been feeding from the same sorts of nonsense so long you've become accustomed to the stuff. But really, if you re-visit Rabel Shmoel's experience with his painting at the AANF convention in Chicago in 2000 you'll see so much of how we operate and why we don't need any Muslims and never did to beat us up.

Here was an Assyrian lad all of 19 years of age at the time...I believe...who was inspired to paint something involving a face divided into sections with a different color for each. Apparently one section of the face was "sad" and he used the color purple to do it with. He loks forward to the start of the convention...probably a little nervous and shy about showing this painting in front of strangers and family and friends. The day arrives, he goes to the Hilton Hotel...down to the basement where Assyria always hides it's best parts and places the painting on an easel and steps back...a little hesitant to hear what people have to say...to admit he painted it...to discuss it...to defend it...to explain it, or not. I know the feeling...no matter how confident you are or how much you tell yourself you don't care what people think...you do. You do if you want to reach people...to communicate...to be heard and seen and known.

I don't know when it happened...Rabel wasn't there, but it wasn't long before some officials of ZOWAA came by...saw the color purple...saw red...and decided the use of this color in a "negative" way on a "sad" part of a face was really a sly attack against them...after all, doesn't all of Mankind know that purple is the official color of ZOWAA? When Rabel returned he found his painting gone and no matter what he tried, no one would tell him where it was or why it was removed till the end of the convention.

There were vague promises of an apology...Atour "Down Here" Golani said he would send one...ZOWAA said they were sorry too and would send a letter...but they can't spell and Rabel would have been hard pressed to figure out if they wanted oral sex or were sorry his car had a flat tire. Nothing happened...no explanations, no apology...except ZOWAA did tell him about the "wrong" use of an Assyrian Democratic Color...could a Nazi have done worse? And when I called the guy in Chicago who actually removed the painting to ask about it...he responded with a nervous laugh when I pressed him and said..."are you policeman"? No...no, you fascist thug...I'm not the cop...YOU ARE!

Just think about it. Think about the mind set this reveals...think of the SMALL mind set it reveals..think of the paranoia it reveals...think of the dismal understanding of what "work" for Assyria means...of the value to these "leaders" of our young and talented people. These clubs and groups have their minds set on Iraq and reclaiming Assyria...or getting a Christian enclave or their "rights" guaranteed...when all they really care about are empty titles for themselves and financial support from the lunkheads in the States and elsewhere who like the sound of gunfire, apparently, as well as all the emptyheaded yet noble sounding rhetoric these guys spew.

Let's agree with them that Assyrians are being held down and disrespected and denied rights and common courtesies in Iraq and other countries that used to be "theirs". But where and when did a Muslim or Turk or Q--d remove an Assyrian kid's painting? If there's nothing we can do in Iraq because we're being "held down" then how dare these idiots of ours hold us down outside of Iraq? If it's a lost cause inside of Iraq...why do these kinds of things...why lose us our young people...why destroy our cause everywhere else in the world? No one oppresses us in America like these Bejans and Golanis and Nimrods do...no Baath Party conspires against us here because they don't need to and they couldn't anyway...they'd have to stand in line behind the AUA and the AANF and any number of Christian Front Organizations who beat them to it.

Come on people...we've got to open our eyes for starters...enough of these politiKAIYI...enough democratIKAIYI...these people don't understand common decency let alone anything more complex and refined. they are the same thugs they complain about...having learned nothing themselves except how to use the tactics used against them...against us. Fuck 'em all...before they fuck us. It's the only sane approach.



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