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Re: Assyrian Aid
Posted by Jeff (Guest) jeff@attoz.com - Sunday, October 19 2003, 12:23:52 (EDT)
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farid wrote:
>I don't understand how people yammer on about being great Assyrians and moving thousands of people and having a great nation and being descendants of of Ashurbanipal who do nothing and show no signs of being what they claim to be and are yet so damn well pleased with themselves just for talking in bombastic superlatives. It's embarrassing...it's shameful...it's degrading...it's humiliating. Talk about your overcompensation...talk about your inferiority complex...talk about being muddleheaded and weak minded. Who do we think we're kidding? Besides each other I mean.
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>Did we think to build a ten storey building with words? Maybe that's why our Dadeeshoos merely affix "PhD" to their names when they would be highly educated...and it's enough for the rest of us. These are people suffering a woeful sense of inadequacy...and the whole thing's self-perpetuating. On any given day all that has to happen to burst this bubble is they take a good look in a mirror and the whole stinking truth becomes apparent...with a vengeance...then they feel so awful right after that they blubber and blather all the harder...to assuage that great holow feeling and fill it back up with more nothings...after which their inner being collapses once again cause whipping cream never held anything up and they need a fix of hot air and so on and so forth round and round in circles till you land just where we are...terribly incapable of anything and PROUD of it!
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>There isn't a one of these proud Assyrians will give five bucks a year to anything Assyrian...they don't trust anybody because they suspect we're all put together the same way they are and we KNOW how untrustworthy we are so everyone else must be full of the same bullshit...and so we talk a lot instead. I can't think of another Assyrian who managed to actually get the cash and therefore the trust of fellow Assyrians. Do you realize I got close to half a million dollars from Assyrians? Think about it...when has that ever been done before...and how likely is it to happen again when Jackie managed to lie about me and smear me enough to do what we do best...break the legs of any Assyrian who endangers our own standing and claim to greatness.
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>Jackie has to put money INTO Assyria...she can't manage but a few hundred here and there OUT of Assyria. And Narsai has to beg and plead and cajole and move and shake and induce guilt in people...and then he has to feed them and wine them and dine them and stroke them...and even then the largest single donation he got came through my sculpture...and no one "likes me" enough to sit at table with me and Narsai was so damn relieved I couldn't afford to make it to the dinner...couldn't afford a ticket and he refused to give me one..even though I gave him a sculpture that netted the Aid Society $10,000 for their cause. Not one stinking free ticket...and I wouldn't have accepted it anyway...but he could have offered...except he didn't want me there because it might make our Jackies uncomfortable.


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As I recall, in Australia, an Assyrian by the name of ... Suleiman?? was able to get 50 million dollars from Assyrians. Remember that guy?? There's some more at the bottom for you to respond to....

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>You don't have to onlu beg and hammer our people. You do your homework...present them with something worthy and they'll respond. But you've got to pay your dues first. You can't just tell them you're great and so are they and everything we do is great and all we've done has been great and we'll go on to do more great things..."Have you got ten bucks"? You mean to tell me all was fine and dandy for this Heritage before the United States started its war against the people of Iraq 14 years ago? Or has all of this Aid Society and ZOWAA business been about guilt and the desire to fluff ourselves back up again because it's just too awful to admit we don't give a shit for the people and cause...not until they're put out in the snow and we have to live with the fact that we're living in the countries and paying the taxes to rob and murder our own people and ruin our "dear" homeland...Nineveh Oy Nineveh?
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>When Narsai went to those "poor" vilages, what did he see? Were those mansions the people had been living in or mud huts? Was it just a tragedy a tin roof got blown off a mud hut...or was it a tragedy our people were living like that? And just how was it better for them to have a tin roof replaced by a concrete one? Was it better for them or for Narsai? Remember, the avowed goal of these societies is to mantain an "Assyrian" presence in BetNahrain...but what kind of a presence and where...in a gutter? How dare Narsai and the rest of them...stuffed to overflowing, decide these people must remain where they are under a whole new and added set of liabilities because Narsai's new home country decided their lives were worthless...and Narsai manages to turn the whole thing to account and get so much good press out of putting a roof back on their hovels?
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>They were building schools and hospitals long before Narsai's country decided to wreck Iraq...in fact their education system and medical facilities were better than those in the United States...especially when you consider the relative wealth of each nation. No one is pounding the United States and their schools are chronically broke and inferior anyway and more and more people have less and less medical coverage. The people of Betnahrain didn't need a fucking thing from Narsai and they aren't getting a fucking thing that in any way makes up for the bombs and destruction and worse, the SILENCE of people like Narsai who dare not criticize or speak up...you'd think we were living in Nazi Germany in 1938 the way Narsai and the rest of them are afraid to speak up and out. Yet Narsai makes sure to benefit the most out of this. He doesn't need money...doesn't need anything those villagers have...but he needs to appear to himself to be "doing" something about their plight...something easy and painless...like cook an expensive and overstuffed dinner and take a year to do it.
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>You just can't cut ten people up then bask in the limelight when you bring a band-aid to two of them. They didn't need any medical attention from you at all...what they need was not to be cut up in the first place. People who say, "what can I do"...do the most damage. They just try to make themselves feel better when they bring you "aid"...they don't like seeing the blood they helped spill...makes them uncomfortable and unable to eat like pigs the rest of the days of the year...and to call it "Assyrian" aid just crowns the infamy.


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It seems like you are asking for the impossible. Every other established lobbyist group in Washington (Turkish, Israeli, the Oil Barons, etc.) is gunning for Iraq... even if we did hire the best lobbying firm and even if our people did vote and contribute... would that make a difference in US foreign policy?
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