Posted on 09/14/2007 1:33:09 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
There was yet another outbreak of Darfur Chic at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art on Friday night. The traveling photography exhibit Darfur/Darfur was in town, and the ICA packed an auditorium with well-fed local glitterati to hear chin music about the four-year-old humanitarian crisis, as well as some real music from cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
I'm glad I took in Darfur/Darfur because I narrowly missed last month's "Rip the Runway for Darfur" gala in New York, sponsored by Level Vodka. I see the Designers for Darfur are showing off their fall collection.
Marvy.
Oh, look - here's an invitation from Ambassador Swanee Hunt, to join her and Liz Walker at another top-drawer Darfur event next month.
If the ongoing conflict in Sudan isn't the most pressing international crisis, it is certainly the most precious. Earlier this year, the Sundance festival was atwitter with tales of the Darfur documentary, "The Devil Came on Horseback." The movement has the obligatory "I Care" wristband, this one green, with the words "Not on Our Watch." The Save Darfur campaign sells car ribbon magnets and of course those lawn signs you see in better communities everywhere.
Who hasn't been to Darfur? United Nations ambassador Angelina Jolie has visited the region several times and has even penned stirring op-ed columns, op. cit.: "It has become clear to me that there will be no enduring peace without justice," whatever that means. Ambassador Mia Farrow co-authored her own stirring op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, calling out director Steven Spielberg, who has been working on the Beijing Olympics.
"Is Mr. Spielberg, who in 1994 founded the Shoah Foundation to record the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust, aware that China is bankrolling Darfur's genocide?" Farrow asked. Well, he is now.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
“Not on Our Watch.”
What the **** would these tards know about standing watch?
Make the celebrities feel good about themselves so that their egos can continue to grow at the optimum annual rate?
Tell Alex to leave Mrs. Pitt out of it. She was going to Darfur before it was cool, and has never looked for credit for doing so.
Making Us Feel Good About Genocide
Bottom line right here. To those who insist we get out of Iraq but "do something" about Darfur I ask why are lives in Sudan any more precious than the lives that will be lost were we to leave Iraq?
I’m going to do something for Darfur: I’m going to go smoke pot at a Phish concert.
What are you going to do?
Actually the only way to stop the genocide is to stop the people perpetrating it. We’ve already tried talking and talking and talking ( nothing happened ).
In the meantime, while we continue talking, the genocide continues.
I can’t see how this can be resolved unless :
1) By an act of God the perpetrators suddenly all die.
2) Some country ( guess which one ? ) comes in and IMPOSES IT’s WILL BY *FORCE*.
But then, if option #2 is chosen, the very same people lamenting Darfur will be the ones screaming — give peace a chance. Can’t have your cake and eat it too.
The only thing Mia Farrow could do to impress me would be to load up her private jet with a bunch of her idiot Hollyweird friends, jet off to a Panamanian arms bazaar, load up on AK's and ammo, and then land in that pestilent God forsaken hell hole Sudan and kill a few bad guys themselves.
Until then those people aren't worth a beer fart in a whirlwind.
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The sacriest words in the English language, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you”.
The funniest words in the English language, “I’m from Hollywood, and I’m here to help you.”
They will probably throw a $1,000 a plate dinner party, and feed people boiled wheat to “raise awareness”.
“I ask why are lives in Sudan any more precious than the lives that will be lost were we to leave Iraq?”
Going to Iraq was President Bush’s idea, not theirs.
This is an attempt to lay guilt on the Bush Administration until they shift resources and military presence AWAY from Iraq/Afghanistan into a place where there is no advantage for the interests of the US in any way.
It is regrettable that civilians are being slaughtered almost senselessly, in a situation that seems to be an attempt at ethnic cleansing. Islamic government troops, or at least militias acting in the name of Islam, are systematically killing non-Muslim non-combatants. But how is this the concern of the US? We have not been called upon by either the authorities in Darfur, or the representatives of those who seem to be oppressed in this instance, to settle the differences by going in and indiscriminately clubbing anybody we see. This would seem to be a UN problem, not a US problem.
I’m aware of the Darfur problem. And I do appreciate you taking the time to say what you said in your reply to me.
But my question was, what the bloomin hell would any of those intellectually inbred sacks of pomo moral equivalance know about standing watch? or doing anything other than running their worthless sucks about issues they have no understanding and living lives of zero worth with no accountability?
Screw these scumbags. If they’re so upset and all fired indignant, great. It’s a good thing to get upset about the slaughter of innocents.
Now they need to ST*U and do something useful. Like, manning up, gearing up and going after the bad guys. Or maybe join up with their fellow travelers of the EU castrati set and get those worthless piece of **** “nations” to actually stand the hell up against our common enemy, rather than sitting on their thumbs and trying to tear us down.
Eventually, we’ll have to return the slaughter upon the islamotards in the Sudan x10. But not at the moment, our guys are currently busy.
PS. None of that was aimed at or meant as attack at you. Just venting ire that always seems to crop up with thinking bout those who constantly and constantly side with our enemy against their own, unless someone tells them its trendy and popular to side against the enemy...but only so long as it’s done in a way meant to make the rest of us look complicit in the evil being perpetrated.
Perhaps they can organize a benefits concert...
“Mercs for Darfur”
As the donations roll in, Clooney can point to a big tally board showing how many Mercs the money will buy to defend the poor christian blacks of Darfur.
Can’t afford enough to hire a whole Merc? Send in enough to buy him a weapon, a grenade or an extra magazine of ammunition...
That’s what I’d like to see.
Oh, I agree. But, that’s not what they say and, I suspect, not even what they believe. Leftists are such skillful liars, even they believe the stories they tell.
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