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dfgadr  17
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Kwambe  14
11-20-2007 03:41 AM ET (US)
Alert for all travellers to North America: Abuse of Human Rights and Privacy Violations:

Racially intolerant white canadian cops and security and their henchmen claim to be despots; following parasitically in the footsteps of their american counterparts, and wilfully engage in their racial profiling of non-whites, in racial harassment of non-whites, and in racially dehumanizing attempts to racially harass non-whites through intimidating physically, mentally, and spiritually; portraying their racial hatred of non-whites through causing wilfull and dehumanizing disturbance to non-whites through using illegal wall-see-through technologies and audio-bugs on non-whites' homes; through listening and watching through the walls of non-whites' rented and owned homes, and through their internet and private telephones. The perpetuators of these evil deeds do this from their cars using illegal equipment slyly given to them by the unworthy cops, and then
accelerating their cars loudly and intimidatingly near non-whites' homes and driving intimidatingly in presence of non-whites on streets, making threatening u-turns, driving intimidatingly right up and over sidewalks when a non-white is on the sidewalk, and throwing their ugly bullying weight around, in their shameless acts of cowardice. It is all done slyly, supposedly smartly, however, they cannot fool all the people all the time. The cops also participate themselves to wail their sirens abusively everytime non-whites move and talk inside their rented and owned homes in daily routine living, in addition to having their henchmen, and often, using their non-white gutless henchmen in cars, transport, shopping centers, neighborhoods, etc, to commit these ugly harassing racially profiling
deeds at all times day and night. Using non-whites to engage in racial harassment of other non-whites is an obnoxiously evil sinister humanely disgraceful intelligent move of the whites well-known for their ugly divide and rule tactics through their non-white henchmen.

It's a shameful disgrace when the so called protectors of law turn into abusers of law themselves and throw the weight of their uniforms and law around as cowards. So, they and their henchmen, appear to be very law respecting on the outside; however, they network cowardly to commit sly acts of provocation to non-whites all the time, which is supposed to
be legally acceptable. Is watching through walls of non-whites homes, bugging their homes, working in networking syndicates against them, committing human rights and privacy violations against them, supposedly lawful for the whites? Who makes those laws that favor
only the whites? The law itself has racism in its clauses. The ugly inner dirt of the perpetuators of these evil deeds of racism do not deserve to step into religious institutions for their ugly deeds - such as, if you ain't white, you ain't right? Oh! Really? Nicely dressed, beautiful people, magnificient concrete jungles, clean roads and lawns, sweet polite talkers on the outside, full of ugly stench in their souls, that is the
cause of these racist policies that are outrightly biased against non-whites. What a shame!

Most of these ugly acts of dehumanizing racial profiling depict the cowardice of the doers of these deeds in the real sense, and are done at the behind the scenes insistence of the racially intolerant white cops through their frontline stooges. However, without physical evidence, the white cops, security, societies, and their henchmen are laughing sinisterly
at their heinous deeds and the legal system seems to support this evil through its inability to take action without physical evidence. Their racial profiling penetrates public transport systems, shops and stores to do all they can to make the non-whites feel unwelcome in their dehumanizing acts of racial profiling against non-whites and those who don't conform to their nonsense. The white cops, security, and white communities use their
henchmen who do just as they are told and from behind the safety cushion of their oil-guzzling, pollution creating, often dark-glassed vehicles to intimidate and harass non-whites in obnoxious racial profiling that reflects the immoral, despotic, and cowardly behaviour of racially intolerant white cops, security, communities and their dumb henchmen
who do just as they are told, fuelled as they are in their racial frenzy, thanks to the racially manipulative corporate controlled media.

For more information, visit:

http://www.yourluckytoday.blogspot.com

Volunteers are welcome to circulate this information to all they know to put an end to this abuse and violations of human rights committed by immorally misbehaved white cops, security, white communities, public transports, shops, stores, etc, and their dumb henchmen who do just as they are told in their racial frenzy.

Save this information on your computers before any cowards remove it from the websites.

Racism is immoral and dehumanizing behaviour that reflects the "incapable to perform humanely" quality of those who are racist and are being watched from God's court above in ways they cannot be expected to be capable to perceive yet.

It's a shame when obnoxious stench of racism comes from people in so called rich countries. It's even more of a shame when words are twisted by media to influence young minds with lies. It's even more of a shame when so called authorities perpetuate racism and behave racistly and enforce racist policies and behaviour through intimidating means amidst outer sweet and polite talks. Racism seems to be prominent among so called white people in rich countries who cannot bear non-whites from other countries of origin. Planet Earth belongs to people of Earth. Highly educated people of high intellectual calibres, rich bosses and CEOs, etc, of rich countries are a blotch on humanity and their material levels when they
haven't yet evolved to basic human concepts of all humans have red blood irrespective of race.

Racism stems from social attitudes that are perpetuated by racist societies, the media, the authoritarians, and the peers. It's time to say, shame on all those who perpetuate racism and racist attitudes.

Thank you.
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  13
10-08-2005 05:43 PM ET (US)
George Saunders on Bookworm
A half-hour-or-so interview on his new book, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. (From the Rake, who also points out the Reign of Phil outtakes and an interview with Lorrie Moore)

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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  12
09-07-2005 09:19 AM ET (US)
George Saunders interview

On Maud. That is to say, on Maud's site.


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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  11
04-23-2005 03:28 AM ET (US)
I had a dream
George Saunders reflects on his start as a writer and his relationship with stories. There's also something about theme parks....

Because there are several different levels of the imagination. There's "I am now imagining a hippo jumping over a house"; that's kind of crazy. But if you stick with that image, and then start working on it day after day after day, suddenly things sprout that you couldn't ever have imagined at the beginning. The story is in a sense an answer to itself; it's talking back to you all the time.

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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  10
11-30-2004 11:24 PM ET (US)
George Saunders: Real American Hero™

I could kiss this man. I really could.

I’ve completed the math.

There are approximately twenty-five million Iraqis in Iraq. There are approximately three hundred million Americans in America. This means that there are approximately twelve Americans for every Iraqi. This means that, if we all go, each American will be responsible for one-twelfth of an Iraqi. An Iraqi family of five will thus be attended by sixty Americans. We will come, this second wave of three hundred million of us, unarmed. We will bring nothing but ourselves. We will simply show up, saying, “What would you like for dinner?”



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  9
05-25-2004 03:29 PM ET (US)
How to Get Out of Iraq
George Saunders has the answer.


To implement this exit strategy, we will have to practice running quickly. It is further recommended that, while running, the eyes be cast down, to avoid witnessing any last-minute people trying to kill us. We will have to establish excellent communications so that the moment that final person begins dying, we can all begin running quickly at the same time, eyes cast down, quickly, to our vehicles, to get to the airport and get out of the country.

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Brian  8
03-03-2004 02:51 AM ET (US)
Edited by author 03-03-2004 02:52 AM
The problem with this "Why stop there?" satire is that Saunders is trying to say that it's arbitrary for the Christian Right to target homosexuals as unfit for marriage: Why not go after the fem guys and butch girls too? What is arbitrary is not the targeting of homosexuals (fingered as evil by the Good Lord Himself in the pages of the Bible (Lev. 20:13)) but the choice of scripture the Christian Right uses as a moral base for legislation. This is the point that asks for satirizing. Why not just kill the homosexuals as instructed (again Lev. 20:13)? Why not also make an amendment requiring animal sacrifices (Lev. 1), or regulations for women during menstruation (Lev. 15:25-30), or ban pork and declare the other-white-meat industry immoral (Lev. 11:7)?

But where Saunders' satire is weak, the prose and wit carry the extra weight.
Paul VermeerschPerson was signed in when posted  7
03-02-2004 11:18 AM ET (US)
Edited by author 03-02-2004 11:19 AM
Boy, leave it to a satirist to cloud the issues. I thought this piece was more curious than funny, more uncomfortable than ridiculous (in a satirical sense). I'm sure that's what Saunders intended, to make it clear that nothing about the issue is cut and dry. I wonder if something more pointed, more designed to skewer wouldn't have been more effective, if only because I doubt that the majority of propoents for the amendment to ban gay marriage would be sharp enough to pick up the subtleties of Saunders' satire here. Than again, most of them probably wouldn't read The New Yorker, either.
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  6
03-01-2004 08:52 PM ET (US)
George Saunders Speaks Out on Same-Sex Marriage

A guide to live by. "Because my feeling is, when God made man and woman He had something very specific in mind. It goes without saying that He did not want men marrying men, or women marrying women, but also what He did not want, in my view, was feminine men marrying masculine women. Which is why I developed my Manly Scale of Absolute Gender."



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  5
01-15-2004 11:09 PM ET (US)
Saunders-O-Rama

Is he everywhere suddenly? Good.



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