Harold Pinter acknowledgement speech

[Occhidiangela]

His theme was the abuse of power, and the responsible action of a citizen to end it.

"Character assassination" is only a problem if the character isn't guilty of the crimes he is accused of. Otherwise, he fully deserves to have his "character" assassinated, and the sooner the better.

-Jester
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The matter of deservation (is that a word?) (please remember Gandalf's words on that score) is a subjective assessment in any case. I think Charles Manson deserves to die, long since, the State of California disagrees.

I disagree with your summarization being the abuse of power. I read it as the matter of the true versus the false, his opening gambit, and his disgust, long held, at the immense smokescreen and shell game played by one particular government, which he foolishly depicts as the work of one man. That decision fed my disappointment in his wasting his gift for words on self-masturbatory fantasty, the idiot's speech for GW. OK, so he wasted a paragraph or two in an otherwise well written rant. Once again, the zero defects standard cannot be met, so I shall accept that flaw as well within the "quite good enough" standard (Hey, it was his turn on the podium!) for a well written bit of political rhetoric.

Occhi