Subject: HIGH-TECH INFORMATION ATTACK
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ALLEN GINSBERG CALLS FOR "HIGH-TECH INFORMATION ATTACK" ON THE TERRITORY OF
FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Allen Ginsberg, legendary American poet of the "Beat generation" and
radical political thinker, arrived in Olomouc, Czech Republic, on November
23, 1993, to spend two weeks there lecturing on American poetry and other
subjects.
On his arrival in the Czech Republic, Ginsberg, 67, who recently supported
the call for the international tribunal and visited various parts of former
Yugoslavia in October on a trip sponsored by the Soros Foundation,
presented his strategy for a "high-tech information attack" in former
Yugoslavia. Ginsberg believes it would be technically feasible and
relatively cheap - compared to a military intervention - to cover the whole
territory of former Yugoslavia with a TV and radio signal in the
Serbo-Croatian language which would urge the people to stop fighting and
disobey the nationalist leaders, and explain to them how much they will
gain if the sanctions are lifted. "Lots of people in Serbia, for instance,
are against Milosevic but they have no other information than the Belgrade
media, and they are desperately hungry for information," said Ginsberg.
"Instead of a cultural blockade of Serbia, we should have a high-technology
cultural blitzkrieg," said Ginsberg, who acknowledges that such a strategy
would of course be a "violation of the sovereignty of Serbia", i.e. the
violation of the rights of governments (in this case, the one of Milosevic)
- he believes, however, that international right should not consist of the
rights of goverments but of the rights of individuals. Even though the
strategy may fail, it is worth trying, said Ginsberg, who also reports that
many people in Serbia believe that it would be very good if singers,
musicians and other artists went into Serbia in great numbers to perform
there during the "cultural blitz" and persuade the people to stop obeying
the nationalist leaders.
During a public reading in Olomouc, Ginsberg also attacked the "War on
Drugs" policy of the U.S. Government, which he considers to be the cause of
the vicious circle now enacted in America: more people in jail for drugs
(almost half of them for "crimes" connected with marijuana!) - more jails -
more police - higher expenses for repression - etc. Ginsberg's bold
proposal is to legalize marijuana immediately; this could help solve the
crisis of small American farms, which could start growing marijuana as a
cash crop.
In private talks with Radical party members in Olomouc, Ginsberg
expressed his full support for Radical ideas on Bosnia, drugs, the
environment, and the death penalty.
OTHER RADICAL NEWS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC:
CZECH SOCIETY FOR AN UNDIVISIBLE BOSNIA founded in Prague
With the participation of a number of Radicals, the Czech Society for
an Undivisible Bosnia was founded in Prague on Nov.29th, 1993. The society
has vowed to press the Czech Goverment and Parliament to support military
intervention in Bosnia. The plan for a "cultural high-tech blitzkrieg",
first announced in June by Paolo Pietrosanti and repeated now independently
by Allen Ginsberg, was presented at the conference by Jan Jarab and
integrated into the program of the Society.
Among many illustrious personalities who participated in the
foundation of the Society were: Jan URBAN, the leader of the Civic Forum in
the first half of 1990, Simon PANEK, the No 1 leader of the student
revolution of 1989, Vaclav BENDA, Chairman of the Christian Democratic
Party, Josef VAVROUSEK, ex-Minister of Environment, Raymond REHNICER,
architect, writer and environmentalist from Sarayevo, Andrej GJURIC, a
prominent member of the Czech Parliament, Egon LANSKY, former Deputy
Foreign Minister, and a number of prominent journalists.
Jaromir STETINA, editor-in-chief of Lidove noviny, a popular Czech
daily, spoke about the Tribunal and proposed that it start with obviously
criminal deeds on the non-political level, i.e. with establishing
responsibility for individual killings - an "anti-Nuremberg strategy" - and
then move upward. If they start with Milosevic, believes Stetina, they will
simply get nowhere. Stetina plans to get Czech lawyers to launch this
initiative to the Tribunal, asking it to prosecute selected individual
killings and massacres.
Simon PANEK, who is now the head of "SOS Sarayevo" foundation,
commented on the success of the collection of money among ordinary Czech
citizens. The foundation expected to collect some 5 million Czech crowns
for humanitarian aid; they have now got 30 million in only a few weeks and
that number is still growing, as more and more Czechs express their
solidarity to the suffering Bosnians. Incredibly, this non-governmental aid
from Czech citizens amounts to more than 10% of all the humanitarian aid
sent by the world to Bosnia right now, and the international organizations
have even said to "SOS Sarayevo" that they should slow down because they
are sending too much aid (no comment).
GROWING SUPPORT FOR RADICAL AMENDMENT TO THE CZECH CITIZENSHIP LAW
Andrej Gjuric, a prominent M.P. for the ruling ODS party, expressed full
support for the Radical amendment (proposed by P.Horak and J.Jarab to the
citizenship law). Gjuric, who is involved also in matters concerning
Bosnia, is the first M.P. of the ruling coalition who took a principled
stand on the proposed amendment and defended it in parliamentary debate
together with a group of deputies from the opposition Social Democratic
Party. Also Pavel Rychetsky, the former Vice-Premier of Czechoslovakia and
one of the leaders of the Free Democrats (Citizens Movement), wrote a
treatise on the citizenship law based on the Radical's initiative, and
supports a liberalization of this highly unfair and discriminatory law.
Still, these politicians remain in a minority, and it seems that
unless there is substantial political pressure on the Czech Parliament and
unless these deputies receive support from foreign parliamentarians, more
than 100 000 people will be left without citizenship and a tragic
situation, with possible mass deportations - a "legal ethnic cleansing" -
will result in 1994.
RADICAL PARLIAMENTARIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD! THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!
WHEN THERE IS BLOOD, IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE. SEND LETTERS TO THE CZECH
PARLIAMENT IMMEDIATELY!
