Monday, January 7, 2008

"You're a child. That's what makes you so fucking scary."

"And he was a mass-murdering fuckhead, as many important historians have said. But there were other mass murderers that got away with it! Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, well done there; Pol Pot killed 1.7 million Cambodians, died under house arrest at age 72, well done indeed! And the reason we let them get away with it is because they killed their own people, and we're sort of fine with that. “Ah, help yourself,” you know? “We've been trying to kill you for ages!” So kill your own people, right on there. Seems to be… Hitler killed people next door... “Oh… stupid man!” After a couple of years, we won't stand for that, will we?"

Eddie Izzard - Dress to Kill


I think we must add Idi Amin to this list too, with more than 300.000 Ugandans (or 500.000???) The Last King of Scotland is another movie concerning our "collective" history of shame. Is the crave for blood ever going to stop? Is it enough to call them "child" to stop them, as we do for Bush(t) today?

3 comments:

gadjo said...

idi amin'le alakasiz bir not:
sol taraftaki bloglar arasinda benimkini de gormek pek surpriz oldu, cok tessekur ederim!..
;-)

gadjo said...

"tesekkur" olacakti..

özgün said...

teşekküre ne lüzum var efendim?
kendim için yapmıştım o listeyi, unutmayayım diye.. =))
karda yürüyüp izimi belli etmemeye çalışıyordum..



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