Rise Up Against the Empire
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Hugo Chávez tal 18 dec 2009 i Köpenhamn
President Hugo Chávez,
Address to the United Nations
Tal hållet 2006 09 19
Representatives of the governments of the world,
good morning to all of you.
First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to
those who have not read this book, to read it.
Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, 'Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States. '"
[Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.]
"It's an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what's happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet.
The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire
are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We
continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the
people of the United States and the world to halt this threat,
which is like a sword hanging over our heads. I had considered
reading from this book, but, for the sake of time," [flips
through the pages, which are numerous] "I will just leave it as a
recommendation. It reads easily, it is a very good book, I'm sure
Madame [President] you are familiar with it. It appears in
English, in Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first
people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in
the United States, because their threat is right in their own
house. The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself,
is right in the house.
"And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here."[crosses himself]
"And it smells of sulfur still today. Yesterday,
ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the
United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came
here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of
the world. I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze
yesterday's statement made by the president of the United States.
As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums,
to try to preserve the current pattern of domination,
exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. An Alfred
Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose
a title: "The Devil's Recipe."
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire
is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And
we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world
dictatorship to be consolidated. The world parent's statement --
cynical, hypocritical, full of this imperial hypocrisy from the
need they have to control everything. They say they want to
impose a democratic model. But that's their democratic model.
It's the false democracy of elites, and, I would say, a very
original democracy that's imposed by weapons and bombs and firing
weapons. What a strange democracy. Aristotle might not recognize
it or others who are at the root of democracy.
What type of democracy do you impose with marines and
bombs?
The president of the United States, yesterday, said to us, right
here, in this room, and I'm quoting, "Anywhere you look, you hear
extremists telling you can escape from poverty and recover your
dignity through violence, terror and martyrdom." Wherever he
looks, he sees extremists. And you, my brother -- he looks at
your color, and he says, oh, there's an extremist. Evo Morales,
the worthy president of Bolivia, looks like an extremist to him.
The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are
extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all
over. And people are standing up.
I have the feeling, dear world dictator, that you are going to
live the rest of your days as a nightmare because the rest of us
are standing up, all those who are rising up against American
imperialism, who are shouting for equality, for respect, for the
sovereignty of nations. Yes, you can call us extremists, but we
are rising up against the empire, against the model of
domination. The president then -- and this he said himself, he
said: "I have come to speak directly to the populations in the
Middle East, to tell them that my country wants peace."
That's true.
If we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if we walk
around New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San Antonio,
San Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of the United
States, what does this country want? Does it want peace? They'll
say yes. But the government doesn't want peace. The government of
the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its
system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It
wants peace. But what's happening in Iraq? What happened in
Lebanon? In Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the
last 100 years in Latin America and in the world? And now
threatening Venezuela -- new threats against Venezuela, against
Iran? He spoke to the people of Lebanon. Many of you, he said,
have seen how your homes and communities were caught in the
crossfire. How cynical can you get? What a capacity to lie
shamefacedly. The bombs in Beirut with millimetric precision?
This is crossfire? He's thinking of a western, when people would
shoot from the hip and somebody would be caught in the crossfire.
This is imperialist, fascist, assassin, genocidal, the empire and
Israel firing on the people of Palestine and Lebanon. That is
what happened. And now we hear, "We're suffering because we see
homes destroyed.'
The president of the United States came to talk to the peoples --
to the peoples of the world. He came to say -- I brought some
documents with me, because this morning I was reading some
statements, and I see that he talked to the people of
Afghanistan, the people of Lebanon, the people of Iran. And he
addressed all these peoples directly.
And you can wonder, just as the president of the United States
addresses those peoples of the world, what would those peoples of
the world tell him if they were given the floor? What would they
have to say?
And I think I have some inkling of what the peoples of the south,
the oppressed people think. They would say, "Yankee imperialist,
go home." I think that is what those people would say if they
were given the microphone and if they could speak with one voice
to the American imperialists.
fortsättningen på talet finns på sidan 2, tal.htm.
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And maybe we have to change location. Maybe we have to put the United Nations somewhere else; maybe a city of the south. We've proposed Venezuela.You know that my personal doctor had to stay in
the plane. The chief of security had to be left in a locked
plane. Neither of these gentlemen was allowed to arrive and
attend the U.N. meeting. This is another abuse and another abuse
of power on the part of the Devil. It smells of sulfur here, but
God is with us and I embrace you all.
May God bless us all. Good day to you.
Hugo Chávez is a self-made man. He wasn’t
piggy-backed into Harvard on a legacy grant (Affirmative Action
for plutocrats) or shoehorned into the White House by corporate
gangsters. He grew up in a two-room thatched palm-leaf house with
his five siblings and dreamt of moving to New York to play
baseball for the Yankees. At age 18 he chose to make the most of
his meager opportunities by enlisting in the military.
For 17 years, Chávez served his country; gradually moving up the
chain of command to lieutenant colonel. Unlike his American
counterpart, GW Bush, Chavez never went AWOL during wartime or
stumbled through years of idle profligacy peering at the world
through beer-goggles.
While Bush was busy driving three consecutive companies into
insolvency and fattening his bank account with the loot from
insider-trading scams, Chávez was putting together the
Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement; a leftist political
organization which promoted redistribution and civil
rights.
Chávez was lifted to the presidency on the backs of peasants and
working-class people while Bush was selected by 5 venal judges
who repealed the democratic process and suspended the counting of
ballots.
The differences between the two men go on and on. It is an
interesting study in contrasts and one that is particularly
relevant to the deteriorating state of world affairs.
Obama macht doch das Gleiche wie sein ungeliebter Vorgänger George W.
Bush - und hat den Friedensnobelpreis deshalb nicht verdient.
So argumentiert Venezuelas Staatschef Hugo Chávez und pöbelt gegen
das norwegische Preiskomitee.
Caracas - Der venezolanische Staatschef Hugo Chávez hat die Verleihung
des Friedensnobelpreises an US-Präsident Barack Obama kritisiert.
Obama habe den Preis nicht verdient, schrieb Chávez am Sonntag in einer
Zeitungskolumne.
Anstatt den Frieden zu fördern, setze der US-Präsident die Kriegspolitik
seines Vorgängers George W. Bush fort.
Das norwegische Nobelpreiskomitee habe Obamas Entschlossenheit verdrängt,
die Kriege im Irak und in Afghanistan fortzusetzen,
hieß es in dem Beitrag von Chávez.
Das Nobelpreiskomitee hatte am Freitag in Oslo bekanntgegeben,
dass der US-Präsident für seine Vision von einer Welt ohne Atomwaffen und
seinen Einsatz zur Stärkung der internationalen Diplomatie
den Friedensnobelpreis 2009 erhält.
Die Entscheidung kam für viele Beobachter überraschend.
Zwar galt Obama als denkbarer Kandidat.
Doch die meisten Experten gingen davon aus, dass es noch zu früh sei,
um den US-Präsidenten mit dieser hohen Auszeichnung zu ehren - schließlich trat
Obama erst knapp zwei Wochen vor dem Ende der Nominierungsfrist am 1. Februar
sein Amt an.
Source: otr/AP okt 2009Ejnar Ekström 08 - 612 61 08
URL: http://www.ejnar.se/cha.htm
