Le grand et vieil (85 ans) écrivain anarchiste américain Kurt Vonnegut était à Columbus, dans l’Ohio, au début du mois. Le Columbus free Press a rapporté quelques moments d’une causerie faite devant 2.000 étudiants, à l’Ohio Union. C’était le plus grand rassemblement pour un conférencier depuis la venue de Michael Moore.
Extraits :
« Well, says Vonnegut, I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.
» The students seem to agree.
» The only difference between Bush and Hitler, Vonnegut adds, is that Hitler was elected.
» You all know, of course, that the election was stolen. Right here.
(…)
» We have people in this country who are richer than whole countries, he says. They run everything.
» We have no Democratic Party. It’s financed by the same millionaires and billionaires as the Republicans.
» So we have no representatives in Washington. Working people have no leverage whatsoever.
» I’m trying to write a novel about the end of the world. But the world is really ending! It’s becoming more and more uninhabitable because of our addiction to oil.
» Bush used that line recently, Vonnegut adds. I should sue him for plagiarism.
» Things have gotten so bad, he says, people are in revolt again life itself.
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» As for making money, war is a very profitable thing for a few people. Jesus used to be so merciful and loving of the poor. But now he’s a Republican.
» Our economy today is not capitalism. It’s casino-ism. That’s all the stock market is about. Gambling. »
Mis en ligne le 12 mars 2006 à 13H15