Still Screaming
The American media does unintentional irony. There were two stories in the papers last weekend which illustrate how things can coexist within dot connecting distance of each other and resist lines drawn. One was a documentary dealing with 20th century genocides in the Washington Post style section
Voicing Their Outrage - washingtonpost.com. The other concerned the murder, the blatant political assassination of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink
Murder of outspoken journalist tests Turkey's democratic gains | csmonitor.com. His crime: mentioning the Armenian Genocide in public
Police: 2 Confess in Journalist Killing - washingtonpost.com. The Turks main problem these days is Kurds and Kurdistan. They don't have an Armenian problem, not anymore at least. The Turks do not admit to this genocide which occurred at the end of world war I or even allow it to be discussed. The U S for whom Turkey has been an important ally through the cold war and into the war on terror [tm] does not officially acknowledge it either. Our position: "genocide deniers" Documentary on the Armenian genocide recapitulating the history of 20th century genocides is titled Screamers. It was made by the former BBC journalist Carla Garapedian. It takes its name not only from the existential reaction of a truly comprehending mind to to the reality of genocide but also from the band System of a Down, who also are Armenian-Americans with personal ties to the Armenian genocide. I don't have any System of a Down in my iTunes, not that I can recall ever hearing anything by them I didn't like. But I like forever comes today era Flesheaters too, so it's difficult using what I think to prove much. The film follows System of a Down around who champion awareness of these mass war crimes as a primary cause. One of messages of the film is how the Armenian situation in 1918 cane be seen as a model and forerunner of Genocides to come. The small town in eastern Massachusetts where I went through middle and high school had a number of Armenian families so I can't remember ever not knowing of this grim historical pass. My high school principal I recall was Bedrose Kamitian, the vice principal was Robert Avakian, our class student president was Rick Hosepian. There was a math teacher named Garabedian, similar to the filmmaker's name Garepedian. I never had him as a teacher, he taught AP classes. I don't believe I was ever in the same hall as an AP class. My schooling was ever of a different, more remedial, nature. All this goes towards revealing the general distance between principle and the American Agenda however handled by it's various primaries: politicians, commentators and news relaters. Things unseemly, inconvenient, unhandsome will remain unspoken, out of sight, under the rug. It leaves me screaming.
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