30-04-2009, 06:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 30-04-2009, 06:29 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Healy Wrote:Frankly, if the guy is a US Citizen, great! Do (even leave) and say what you think is right -- If not, he has my full permission to take his disassembled Steinway back to wherever he came from (Habana I suspect), lay out a hat for donations, then play to his content. Anywhere else, but here! A stunt.... he wanted to make a real impact he'd of done just the above, letting the media find him playing on a street corner or a dinghy bar.... THEN make his political statement.... This kind of crap doesn't play well with REAL America.
Folks demand his music, I'm sure they can find it on the net.... Hope he has a nice trip! :musicus:
I really care not about those Americans to whom this kind of truthful speaking (the right and duty or any concerned citizen of our Planet) doesn't 'play well'. They are no more real than those who applauded him - they are only the 'normal and proper' type of Americans, (according to the mythology/propaganda of the power elite). What he did was no more nor less than what Jessie Owens did, in his own way, to Hitler and the Nazis at the Berlin Olympics. If the comparison upsets some, sorry, but that is IMO where America is headed (Corporate Fascism), and I along with other REAL Americans and REAL concerned people worldwide are determined to stop and reverse it. Who speaks for the one million dead in Iraq? Approx. 20+ million dead since WW2 at the behest of American proxy wars; all the deathsquads, torture, sponsored revolutions, overthrows, assassinations and dictatorships, etc.? Now we have the unPatriot Act around our own necks; Gestapo-like surveillance, theft of our Freedoms and Public wealth.....and much more. Basta!...and Bravo to this brave, concerned and humanistic pianist. All REAL world citizens need to join the new virtual White Rose.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass