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..the "Dumbest Assyrian" syndrome...
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...I asked Narsai what all the fuss had been really about? He'd mentioned that they appeared to have fallen ten grand short of last year's take...so naturally I reminded him that they could have been ten grand OVER if they'd auctioned off my sculpture...he said, "probably so".

He also mentioned that the crowd had changed somewhat...that more people were coming from further away...from Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, Modesto, of course.

Apparently one of the more popular auction items in times past was a dinner with Narsai, made by him and served at his home... three of those had been auctioned off two years ago for $8000 each...but this had not happened this year...I believe that's what he said..in any case, his point was that people from out of town were less likely to go for something that required they return..also that one or two items received no bid at all. The Persian carpet for instance didn't interest anyone and maybe they'd have to sell it now to raise what they could.

"I'll bet you people would have bid on Assyrian sculpture they could have taken home with them", sez I. "You're probably right", sez he.

In light of the very civil behavior of his own vice-president towards me, I asked Narsai what the fuss had been in their committee meetings...he said that while they were discussing my contribution one of them piped up that he had READ something back when and, "people have long memorries", Narsai added. It seemed to have been only one person...maybe two...and they wound up costing AIDS thousands of dollars...money meant to supposedly help poor Iraqi women who MUST be kept in Iraq...so Aprim can alert us all of "martyrs".

This is so typical of them...let there be a crowd of people...a good cross section of all types..and the stupidest, most narrow and prejudiced one will determine what the "leader" does. I don't quite know why we operate that way...it's as if we're afraid to offend the DUMBEST! But why?

Can it be that this will be the one to call our mother a whore and we want to avoid that? Is it because we fear retribution from a Jackie Bejan that we give in to her? Is being "Assyrian" entirely dominated by cowardice and nothing more?

If the president AND vice-president of AIDS isn't averse to my presence...or to the autioning off of my sculptures...and I know for a fact a few other prominant members aren't either...then how was it that one, or maybe two individuals were allowed to rule? especially when they wound up costing them so much? Is it THAT important to seek to discredit those we are jealous of...and therefore to manufacture lame excuses about what MIGHT happen...just to send an "insult" their way...or maybe make them want to go away because they are "hurt" at not being "liked"?

Is there anyone left out there whgo thinks I am going away? That anything they do can silence or stop me? Do I act like I care if I'm POPULAR...or liked by the likes of THESE sorts of people?

Narsai shouldn't have caved...he wound up hurting his own cause as well...to satisfy some idiotic person with a hard-on for me. I came anyway...I behaved as I always do...I gave back what people deserved: people there behaved in a civilized manner and in return so did I. They can't expect an Assyrian to turn the other cheek if they choose to be offensive or unjust.

Someone once cautioned me not to run into Jackie's husband, because he was furious at the things I'd said about his wife. I had to laugh...do people think, because I smile and make funny, that there is no real potential for serious anger inside? Not the silly stuff they point to...but the real thing? Jackie Bejan didn't just spread gossip...she herself made up the lies and told them to people with the intention of ruining the Hammurabi Monument and the Shumirum Monument...she also spread rumors that I am a savage and cheat people...as a way to get people to distance themselves from me..and when it didn't work she lashed out at all of us.

I kept my cool where Jackie was concerned. I went in front of everyone to tell the truth about her...for which she sued me..and I sued her right back. I never once considered hurting her business, from which she earns the money to feed her children, as she did to me...calling peopleand saying she was a slut or worked for the Baath party..or anything else...I stayed focused on the issue at hand...and dealt through the courts..as civilized people are supposed to do wherever that option exists.

In another day I might have hopped in my chariot and ridden down on her and cut out and roasted her liver...that was then...today you ride to court instead and feed her asshole to HER! We went down that path till she saw the next step was a trial and having to lie under oath..so she wisely dropped the whole thing.

If at any time, Lincoln was to assume that my correct behavior meant I was a sissy or whimp who would not dare confront him...or that he could play out some male-type fantasy about protecting the honor of his most disgraceful wife...while I quaked and shivered behind a summons or a lawyer...he would be in for the surprise of his life.

Assyrians were known as lambs in peacetime...no histrionics...no bragging and no threats...but come a war and you could kiss your sweet ass good-bye.



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