08-04-2006, 05:18 AM
Arundhati Roy talking about how she supports Maoist terrorists:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->AG: And the Maoists, what are their demands?
AR: Well, the Maoists are fighting on two fronts. One is that they are fighting a feudal society, their feudal landlords. You have, you know, the whole caste system which is arranged against the indigenous people and the Dalits, who are the untouchable caste. And they are fighting against this whole corporatization. But they are also very poor people, you know, barefoot with old rusty weapons. And, you know, what we â say someone like myself, watching what is happening in Kashmir, where â or in the northeast, where exactly what America is doing in Iraq, you know, where youâre fostering a kind of civil war and then saying, âOh, if we pull out, these people just will massacre each other.â
But the longer you stay, the more youâre enforcing these tribal differences and creating a resistance, which obviously, on the one hand, someone like me does support; on the other hand, you support the resistance, but you may not support the vision that they are fighting for. And I keep saying, you know, Iâm doomed to fight on the side of people that have no space for me in their social imagination, and I would probably be the first person that was strung up if they won. But the point is that they are the ones that are resisting on the ground, and they have to be supported, because what is happening is unbelievable.
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Since when exactly did tribals become indigenous and all others foreign?, by this ridiculous logic everyone is foreign since we were all supposed to have migrated out of Africa.
So Roy supports people who blow up buses, massacre innocents, basically she supports criminals and mass murderers.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->AG: And the Maoists, what are their demands?
AR: Well, the Maoists are fighting on two fronts. One is that they are fighting a feudal society, their feudal landlords. You have, you know, the whole caste system which is arranged against the indigenous people and the Dalits, who are the untouchable caste. And they are fighting against this whole corporatization. But they are also very poor people, you know, barefoot with old rusty weapons. And, you know, what we â say someone like myself, watching what is happening in Kashmir, where â or in the northeast, where exactly what America is doing in Iraq, you know, where youâre fostering a kind of civil war and then saying, âOh, if we pull out, these people just will massacre each other.â
But the longer you stay, the more youâre enforcing these tribal differences and creating a resistance, which obviously, on the one hand, someone like me does support; on the other hand, you support the resistance, but you may not support the vision that they are fighting for. And I keep saying, you know, Iâm doomed to fight on the side of people that have no space for me in their social imagination, and I would probably be the first person that was strung up if they won. But the point is that they are the ones that are resisting on the ground, and they have to be supported, because what is happening is unbelievable.
http://www.alternet.org/story/36643/<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Since when exactly did tribals become indigenous and all others foreign?, by this ridiculous logic everyone is foreign since we were all supposed to have migrated out of Africa.
So Roy supports people who blow up buses, massacre innocents, basically she supports criminals and mass murderers.