Letters to the Editor
chaumont
Published Letters: 26 Editor's Choice: 2
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Depressing Danes
[Read the article: Europe's cartoon jihad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The protest of the Danish muslim society against the caricatures in a Danish newspaper must be seen in its proper context which is Denmark and the policies of the present government. It is about time that this Denmark is made visible.
The caricatures - reminding one of the anti-Semitic caricatures of that Nazi publication Der Stürmer of the 30´s - are a mere reminder of the constant harrassments of the muslim minority by those who have power and a voice such as that of an ultraconservative newspaper.
The helplessness and desperation at never being listened to makes the Danish muslim complaint absolutely legitimate - noone in Denmark cared until, typically, its export business was hurt.
It is a terrible thing for all that we are now facing a situation where matters may easily get out of hand.
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congratulations at discovering European quality television
[Read the article: "They didn't see us as humans"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excellent article by ms Havrilevsky - would have been even better should she have demanded more of quality European television on more subjects than this very urgent one
Every time I visit the US I am appalled at the poor international choice on television -cable included
let alone the appalling standards of the network news.
I know of no more isolated citizens than those of the USA.
Chaumont
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Silly OPrah
[Read the article: Oprah's revenge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OPrah´s flogging of Frey is about the silliest thing I have seen on American television.
That woman is a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds all to herself.
Pity that Frey was unable to tell her a few words of truth as the lady revealed herself in her pitiful state.
No writer ever owes the reader any other truth than what is in a well performed seduction.
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Think about Marie-Antoinette
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex: Cannes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For an exorbitant 240 million dollars Coppola loses her translation of Marie-Antoinette out of sheer indifference to this victim of the ancient royal practice of sex traffic. Arriving from the court of Vienna to that of Versailles because of a forced marriage Marie-Antoinette knows at 14 that her womb is heavily invested by strong political interests. As the next
seven years pass without conceiving, every menstruation becomes her ghastly reminder of the spectre of eviction.
Coppola makes nothing of this, more fascinated by the odd idea of differences between the ways of the court in Vienna and Versailles. Far more chilling are the similarities.
The big love of this loveless life, Swedish count von Fersen,is translated by Coppola as some insipid youth. He was the very opposite: a handsome mighty package of testosterone electrifying as a rock star oozing of venereal disease among his groupies.
And by the way that golden Versailles had no sanitation. It was a well established part of the perfumed rigours
to faire pipi let alone defecate in staircases and behind the curtains. An act of protest? Not very likely.
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Fonda and the Swedish Feminist Party
[Read the article: Fonda on feminism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pity that ms Fonda had no research done before lending her glamour power to a feminist movement every feminist has refused association
with by now and then I do not even mean the staggering notoriority of its chairwoman ms Gudrun Schyman.
Sweden alas is no longer the exciting promise created by Olof Palme, in turn infatuated with Shirley MacLaine before getting shot in the street by a drunkard in l986. Sic transit. Only Stockholm remains an utterly lovely city
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Bring in the divine marquis
[Read the article: Early-rising Americans not ready for pretty childless women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The real point is the pleasure the NBC bosses take in ridding themselves of a pretty childless Campbell Brown, as the highly trained professional becomes when made into a victim by a game that was the favourite of that philosophe de la féodalisme violente, the divine marquis.
The very idea of early-rising American tv-masses as victims of the reproduction trap and therefore unable to relate to an elite with a life of choice (ms Brown) is perverse enough. Ms Brown is of course no elite in the eyes of her bosses. The pleasure they take in making her understand where she belongs is surely missed by ms Traiter.
Marquis de Sade - as ms Traiter will recall - profiled the elite as endowed with rights including the right to an absolute disregard for its victims. Yet the divine marquis never tires to elaborate on the crushing fate of the victims. I doubt the NBC bother with that.
Pity therefore that the dimensions of the cruelty inflicted on ms Brown should be of such a forgotten character.
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Iraq and now NOrth Korea
[Read the article: Sullivan's travels]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When will your clever brains see the red thread going from administration´s disaster politics in Iraq of provoking change of government
and Washington´s dogmatic silliness as for North Korea showing that American neoconservatists are in no way interested in peace in that part of the world but hankers about nonsense such as sanctions - which never worked against Cuba Iraq Afghanistan or Iran.
Do take the trouble to read Le Monde diplomatique and its editor in chief Ignacio Ramonet.
Do for the sake of all of us. And for the level of continued discussions.
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Do please vomit
[Read the article: "Marie Antoinette"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Incredible review - why not have a good vomit instead at ms Coppola´s building a mega patisserie of a fate illustrating what is no more and no less that old sex trafficking between royal courts?
Marie Antoinette´s drama is also about her
menstruating. Just imagine 7 years and no conceiving after marriage. All those bloody months.
A big burp to you mesdames Coppola and Zacharek.
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grand great Oprah
[Read the article: What Oprah can't forget]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She is quite a gal fighting to make a difference against violence deprivation and humiliation.
However exporting the only lifestyle she knows, Americanism, might prove as much a threat to the freedom of the girls as the misery they come from.
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La democrasserie
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney's dirty secrets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Bush administration has wanted war at a horrible expense not only for Americans but for the entire world community.
The bloody everyday reports from Iraq, the unrest created in the whole region mirror how American democracy has changed into what Flaubert called "la démocrasserie", the abuse of power in the name of the people.
Small minds in the White House toying with too much power - the game is clearly a case for the International War Crime Court at the Hague.