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March 04, 2006
Orwell Awards Forever Claimed
I think this takes the Orwell Award:
Two Iraqi women whose husbands and children were killed by US troops during the Iraq war have been refused entry into the United States for a speaking tour. The women were invited to the US for peace events surrounding international women’s by the human rights group Global Exchange and the women’s peace group CODEPINK.In a piece of painful irony, the reason given for the rejection was that the women don’t have enough family in Iraq to prove that they’ll return to the country.
In fact, if there were Orwell Awards, they'd have to stop giving them out.
Posted by zeynep at March 4, 2006 03:35 PM
Comments
Words fail me.
Posted by: Brooklyn Girl at March 4, 2006 10:06 PM
Remember that old crack about the man who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he's an orphan? I always thought that was just a joke; now I know better.
Posted by: Linkmeister at March 5, 2006 02:54 AM
TBH, that's just fucking tragic. I'm trying to get a wry smile together, but there's a pit of hollow despair that just won't let me. Fear too, if i'm totally honest.
Like you, BTW. Followed here from your article at CounterPunch about moral agency. In the blogroll you go...
Posted by: edjog at March 6, 2006 09:05 PM
I don't know about an Orwell award, but a Kafka award probably, a Joseph Heller award certainly.
Posted by: The Bloody Sergeant at March 7, 2006 10:11 AM
Posted by: thepoetryman at March 7, 2006 03:57 PM
Liberty? Where?
Democracy? Where?
Not with a ”Sunset Prayer”!
Freedom? Where?
Posted by: thepoetryman at March 27, 2006 03:57 PM