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Breyten Breytenbach
South African
Writer
Born:
Sep 16
,
1939
Dangerous
Enemy
Even
Human Rights
Rights
Your
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The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
Breyten Breytenbach
World
Dangerous
Power
Submit
Ungrateful
Envious
Obvious
Sake
Goal
America
Which
Barbarian
Us
Interests
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
Breyten Breytenbach
War
History
Injustice
Better
Sometimes
Mind
Moral
Through
Powerful
Catharsis
How
Still
Opposition
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Your
Popular
Shown
Grassroots
Expressed
Resistance
Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
Breyten Breytenbach
Enemy
Dangerous
Nothing
Out
Administration
Perceived
Restraint
Nobody
Know
Protect
Because
Accounts
America
Hitting
Any
Agencies
Your
Specialized
Vindictiveness
Present
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
Breyten Breytenbach
Reality
Though
System
Hiding
Objective
Chattering
Opaque
Clear
Spotlight
Governing
Ultimate
Covert
While
Your
Transparency
Workings
Even
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
Breyten Breytenbach
Rights
Example
Situation
Human Rights
Extreme
Kick
Circumstances
Criteria
Abnormal
Brought
About
Surely
Conditions
Precisely
May
Human
It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
Breyten Breytenbach
Mistake
Black
Other
Minds
Out
Out Here
Must
Would
Would-Be
Anguished
Countrymen
Majority
Tragic
Hearts
Just
Represents
Bush
Us
Your
Many
Here
Imagine
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