http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/13/1359237
That page is an interview of Desmond Tutu on Democracy Now. He is a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
I got to hear one of his lectures in person. He is a very witty funny sweet man. He is huge on Social Justice. He is famous for his involvement in helping end the apartheid in South Africa.
In this interview he remarks on how eerily similar the rhetoric of the War on Terror and the Bush admnistration is to the rhetoric that was used in the apartheid in South Africa.
A new biography on Desmond Tutu has just been published. It is titled "Rabble Rouser for Peace.
This is his response to what is happening in Guantanamo Bay:
"ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: For someone coming from South Africa, you [inaudible] that's exactly what they were doing for exactly the same reasons that they gave. When you said, "Why do you detain people without trial? Why do you ban people as you are doing?" And the response from the South African government was, "Security of the state." And anyone who questioned it would then be regarded, especially if you are white, as being unpatriotic. And I just want to say to you: Is this something that you want done in your name? Isn't it time there was a same sense of outrage that people had about apartheid, which people should have had about the Holocaust? What would happen if it was Americans held by some other country under these conditions?""
Guantanamo Bay is going to be one of the darkest marks on America's history. I think few people understand that genocides can only happen if the apathetic let it. In the same if the apathetic majority stands by while these atrocities are committed. History always looks back at the apathetic with shame in situations like this. I don't want my kids to look back at me and tell me "Why didn't you do anything? why did you just let all that injustice happen?"
Its scary to hear who similar the rhetoric for the apartheid is to the rhetoric that is being used to keep Guantanamo Bay open.
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