Arresting people for show trials is a level of attention I thought we
wouldn't reach again. Alas, I am wrong.
A residual question is, why are the police dealing with the minnows
rather than the larger fish? Need to up the arrest record? The whole
smells of cynicism and abuse. I hope she wins through on appeal, if
she can afford one.
Of course, the attention that Blair is getting for the public
execution of Menezes is only to be welcomed.
Roger
On Nov 9, 2007 3:01 PM, Peter Cudmore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There seems to be some kind of a line between this case and that of Helen
> Demidenko that suggests the state (which, in the end, is us after all) ought
> to be engaged and interested in its edges.
>
> Demidenko/Darville, remember (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Darville),
> adopted the identity of a Ukrainian Australian as part of a fictional
> narrative extending from her novel *The Hand that Signed the Paper*, dealing
> with the polarities of terror experienced in wartime Ukraine at the hands of
> Hitler & Stalin. She was "controversially" "exposed" subsequent to the
> publication -- whether the exposure was traumatic or part of the theatre,
> and whether the resultant controversy was therefore a successful coup de
> theatre, is all part of the larger frame that makes the episode remain
> interesting.
>
> This Samina Malik could be doing something similar. If the poem quoted in
> the Times article is a badly-translated ghazal, for instance, then a case
> could be made for reading her in similar terms. If it is just as bad as it
> appears, however, l'etat, c'est nous really ought to be paying attention at
> the minimum. Maybe encouraging her to learn some poetic craft would be just
> the thing we ought to do as a result of such attention.
>
> P
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Roger Day
> > Sent: 09 November 2007 11:21
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: it doesn't mean a thing, it's just poetry
> >
> > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2836243.ece
> >
> > I think the Met Police might beg to differ on that one. I can't help
> > thinking the police are plucking the low-hanging fruit, the "useful
> > stupids" as Stalin put it. In Russia, they have a saying: shoot one
> > and the rest will fall into line. Or something like that.
> >
> > I think she's a poor, misguided fool but really not worth the
> > attention of our police state.
> >
> > Roger
> > --
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> > "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
> > Roman Proverb
>
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