Wednesday, October 10, 2007
One step closer
The House Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve the Resolution 106 recognizing the Armenian Genocide. This means they have approved to bring the resolution to a floor vote at the House of Representatives. So far so good, however, House speaker Palosi could still back down to pressures from Bush and the Turks, and prevent the bill from reaching the floor for a vote. She said before that she wouldn't, however women have been known to lie, so I ain't going to hold my breath. I'll just wait and see. For those of you who are wondering why I care so much, its not only because I am Armenian. Long story short, my great-grandfather was a genocide survivor. He had to flee his home to another country. Because he had to leave his home, I wan't born in Armenia, I was born in another country of Turks, where 80 years later Armenians would again die by the hands of Turks, and this time it would affect me directly, resulting in me and my family leaving our home behind and becoming refugees, just like my great-grandfather. So as you see, it does affect me, and that is why I care. This shit just doesn't get sweeped under the rug and forgotten. This shit sticks around and changes families forever. Without foreclosure, these families will be forever refugees even if they find a new home.
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Today we had the best lecture of all time. The guy was Armenian, and was absolutely hilarious, "Sure, I never like them, but I only dated German and English chicks because I was afraid my kids would get some defected version of HbE if I dated the black girls I really had fantasies about." perhaps, borderline racist, but still funny.
hahaha, oh fuck, I wish I went, I think he is doing another lecture tommarow, I'm going for sure.
Ashot....I have been reading some counter arguments to the passage of this resolution....I'm not so sure its in the best interest of the United States...I am sorry my friend.
i'm not surprised
i am not a traitor...
If you are implying that the Ottoman Armenians were traitors to their country than you are just as ignorant as those stupid fucks in Turkey, some of whom are actually so stupid that they actually believe that Armenians never even lived inside their borders. It is true that some villages close to the Russian border rose against the Ottoman empire during WWI. That did not involve all the Armenians of Turkey and were either due to 1) some revolutionaries that decided on their own that its time to break away from the Empire and reestablish Armenia, and 2) Some villages resisted because they knew that the genocide has began, and the choice was either to fight or to die, and is that being a traitor? And even if it is. Even if this fraction of Armenians (not all mind you) were traitors, why annihilate the rest? Why kill the rest of them, women, children, and the elderly. Why make them march into the desert with no food no water and no dignity, and have your leading cleric come out and declare jihad against these Christian infidels, why? Because of some village resistance on the edge of the empire? Could you imagine the Turkish government of today deciding to start deporting and massacring all the Kurds living in Turkey today, simply because some of their population in Turkey are fighting a war of resistance? Is that mean all the Kurds of Turkey today are traitors? Could you imagine the world letting them get away with it? They wouldn't, but the Turks might even try because nobody said shit about it when they did it to the Armenians. So if the Kurds (who are Muslim) are not traitors, then that must mean that the Armenians were only traitors solely because they were Christians, doesn't it? Why am I writing this anyway, I know you don't believe any of it, you’re a denier like the rest of them, so just leave me in peace, I have nothing more to say to you.
Wow, that was a long post Ashot, you lost me there.
Thanks for your input Roman, invaluable as always.
That's insulting...you bag of heavy balls.
yeah i am not sure what you are talking about ashot
Ashot, thanks for clearning things up ... that was stupid-funny. Lehmann-like.
No problemo Roman, and thank YOU for the compliment. ;)
Wow. So I was listening to today's lecture audio, and looks like your fellow Armenian brother in arms Donebedian could give a "flying fuck" about this resolution. He's "tired of Armenians competing with Jews as genocide victims."
Although I think this is valid (after all, the culture of victimhood can get annoying), his might be a classic case of the immigrant shedding his cultural past for the sake of being "American." And as for the resolution getting passed, it isn't going to do much for Armenian/Turkish relations, is it?
yeah, the guy is pretty liberal, he is not a pure Armenian, like me. :) And about the Armenian-Turkish relations, well, there could never be any healing between the two, as long as the Turk deny what they did. So if this is a step on the road to Turkish admiting what they did, they it in the long run this will help bring the two countries to a reconciliation.
I'm sorry guys, I don't mean to be an asshole. But this issue is not up for debate with me, ever. I should have mentioned this before. I'm also sorry if I misinterpreted any comments. Peace.
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