tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post4566597594161670799..comments2024-03-27T17:03:57.341-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: What the French are obsessing about: galette des rois and a bookOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-84201462483844333592011-01-07T19:28:13.482-05:002011-01-07T19:28:13.482-05:00Beth,
What should outrage people in the U.S. are t...Beth,<br />What should outrage people in the U.S. are those who accuse others of being racists simply because they don't regard our current president as a god. Unless you have proof that someone's attitudes toward Obama's policies and decisions are based on his race and not on those policies and decisions, you have no right to accuse people of racist attitudes. The race card has been played and played and it is as destructive as racism itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-66593595134890962362011-01-07T00:35:28.125-05:002011-01-07T00:35:28.125-05:00I haven't read what Hessel said about the Roma...I haven't read what Hessel said about the Roma, but if he supports and defends them, I'd agree with him.<br /><br />The Roma people were targets of the Nazi war and propaganda machine, and many were killed.<br /><br />They're trying to survive in Europe, amid and despite increasing vilification, discrimination, deportation and physical assaults.<br /><br />I can't see anyone who is for equality and human rights not supporting their right to live and work where they need to, free of harassment.kathy d.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-24203847673511230762011-01-06T14:06:32.710-05:002011-01-06T14:06:32.710-05:00Thanks, Michele!
Beth as always you find the cogen...Thanks, Michele!<br />Beth as always you find the cogent words.<br />Anonomyous - well, no one in the US knew about the trouble in the banlieus until CNN picket up on it. Hessel does make a case for the Roma.<br />Jeffery I thought of the Dylan Thomas poem Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night (or do I get the title wrong?) I'd love to be 93 and still have something to say, the eyes to see, and be ABLE to say it and have it published before I kicked the bucket. <br />Kathy d thanks for your opinion and I'm optomistic too<br />CaraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-88870936731269305812011-01-06T01:35:51.389-05:002011-01-06T01:35:51.389-05:00I love both of these--the pastry (and the traditio...I love both of these--the pastry (and the traditions) and this writer and his message.<br /><br />Now where can I, in the Big Apple, get both of these?<br /><br />As someone who watches MSNBC and sees a lot of opposition to the rightwing, as a counter to Fox, and who has joined in anti-war, anti-foreclosures, pro-health care and education protests, actions objecting to anti-Muslim, anti-Latino and anti-gay bigotry--and know many people personally and through the Internet who join in, too, things here aren't a lost cause.<br /><br />Also, there were huge demonstrations in Arizona against the passage of the racist anti-immigrant legislation, and many in support across the country.<br /><br />People are down here, and I think, don't know what to do, although the lessons of the 1960s in the U.S. and recent protests throughout Europe provide lessons on what to do.<br /><br />Historically, also about WWII, I am under the impression that there were many ardent members of the French Resistance. Unfortunately, many were caught and paid the ultimate price, but I've read of heroic women and men who survived the war and have discussed this. There have been fantastic accounts of this Resistance, even inside the camps.<br /><br />Also, I thought that there have been demonstrations in France protesting the government's treatment of Roma and other immigrants. Maybe not enough, but something.<br /><br />There should be a million people out protesting this, true.<br /><br />I appreciate this post a lot, but am more of an optimist than many.kathy d.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-24830782334313228212011-01-05T01:09:19.535-05:002011-01-05T01:09:19.535-05:00It's been long few days of political discussio...It's been long few days of political discussions with foreign friends having political roots almost as ancient as Mr. Hessel's. They had escaped to New York City for the holidays. Today they left, giving me the chance to gaze upon your beautiful galette<br /><br />But then I read on. It's amazing how in so many countries old soldiers (and their widows) are simultaneously screaming out at what they see as the utter disregard of cultural values that once inspired so many to fight and others to die. And each wonders for what are those principles ignored? More easy francs, euros, dollars or those other currencies to the east? <br /><br />Is this free-running phenomenon of Ancient Soldiers' misgivings a coincidence, a function of shared advanced age, or a fair assessment of the reality of our times?<br /><br />I think I'll just eat the cake.Jeffrey Sigerhttp://www.jeffreysiger.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-60355918260639777192011-01-04T11:06:38.039-05:002011-01-04T11:06:38.039-05:00There isn't anything that Hessel writes that c...There isn't anything that Hessel writes that can't be applied to the United States.<br /><br />In order to get "Don't ask, don't tell overturned in Congress, he had to agree to drop his plan to let the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy expire. The really wealthy don't pay taxes anyway.<br /><br />In the 1960's young people were outraged about the war. Lyndon Johnson, whose Great Society policies were paying for the educations of a hefty percentage of the demonstrators, did not run for election in 1968. Nixon was inflicted on the country. He ended the war in Vietnam but shredded the Constitution. Two investigative journalists didn't give up trying to find the reason for the Watergate break-in and Nixon had to resign. People everywhere were glued to the hearings in Congress that led to his resignation.<br /><br />In the US the only thing that outrages anyone is that the president of the United States is a Democrat of a skin color different from that of the previous occupants of the White House. Instead of Woodward and Bernstein, there is Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, none of whom are held to any standards of truth.<br /><br />Society isn't moved by a war that was built on a lie. It isn't moved by the job losses or the home foreclosures. Society's mantra in the US is "as long as I have mine...." Selfishness is the motivator of policy. The US couldn't come together against a common enemy today. The war on terror is a term thrown out to justify the erosion of personal freedom. Congress refused to continue to pay the health care expenses of the first responders to the World Trade Center. <br /><br />In reference to the Civil War, Lincoln stated that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." The US is a nation divided between the those who don't have enough to get by and those who will never have enough. <br /><br />BethAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-50246131997432157072011-01-04T10:41:12.084-05:002011-01-04T10:41:12.084-05:00Mmmmmm...I'm in! Such an informative post. T...Mmmmmm...I'm in! Such an informative post. Thank you! Going in Sunday's "Best New Year's Posts" roundup.<br /><br />Michele<br /><a href="http://southerncitymysteries.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">SouthernCityMysteries</a>JournoMichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11170364981958685438noreply@blogger.com