I do what I want - You do what you're told

Well, I have to post it. This is the song of my life, that means a lot to me, it's like talkin' about me and about what I feel. My life, my septembers, the day when I was born...and the day when I lose it all!

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends

Like my fathers come to pass
Seven years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are

As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends

Ring out the bells again
Like we did when spring began
Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are

As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends

Like my father's come to pass
Twenty years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up when September ends

"...over our personal experience we've been all witnesses of an event basical and unespected; basical, because unexpected, unforeseen by anyone. It has been without any foresight, it has been in Europe, unbelieveble, it has been that a whole civil nation, just coming out from the rising of the Weimar culture, pursued an histrion, a man whom imagine todays makes us laugh; and yet Adolf Hitler has been pursued and hosanned to the catastrophe. It has been, then it could be again: this is the point of what we have to say."

                                                                                From Primo Levi "The Submerged And The Saved"


In the past years I used to celebrate this day (01/27 today is the Memory Day for the Shoah) being in public discussions, in conferences, making lessons in schools and expositions. This year I don't take part in any of this stuff, as I already told to all my friends from the "Centre for the peace education" today I won't celebrate.
This is beacuse I'm tired of celebrating this Shoah, and punctually forget all the other olocausts, all the other persecutions, all the ethnical murder in the world. Because we don't have only jewish, we have Armenian, we have Kurds, we have the Indios, and the Palestinians and so many, so many people whom exsistance is every day in the worry to end. But we don't celebrate it, we never mention it, we never remember it.
There are wars in the world that the media never talked about, there are people dying for ud being confortable in our houses! And we don't celebrate it!
And I want to stop this sudditance, I wont be victim of a sin someone else did for me. So many wars today go on only because of the Shoah, and we can't say stop only because of the Shoah! And I can't agree with that.
So this year I wont celebrate, I wont be part of this hipocrit parade.
When Primo Levi wrote this book, "I sommersi e i salvati" (I don't know the english traslation of it) he was telling us that what he suffered, what 6 milions of people suffered was in the way to be again, and again, and again. And that has punctually been, so we didn't noticed of that, we're still in our reflection saying: "Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa!".
That's all!

Today I'm curious!! I wanna know what are your most favourite five music video!

Here's mine


5. The Clash - Rock The Casbah (dunno 1980?)
I always loved tha sheik and the orthodox jewish man havin' fun togheter!!

4. Green Day - Basket Case (Mark Webb ? 1994)
When I was a little girl the bright colours of this video were substitutes for cartoons!!

3. My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade (Sam Bayer 2006)
I really love Sam's imagination and it's ability to catch the song meaning in images

2. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirits (Sam Bayer 1991?)
I used to jump up and down everytime I see this video, since I was 10 to today!! And the Sam's things too!

1. Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Sam Bayer 2005)
I love Green Day, and I love Sam Bayer....what more? This video came in my life when I was so lonely....

A Country with limited sovereignty

Since 1945, Italy has been a nation with limited sovereignty. After the Marshall Plan NATO bases arrived. More USA than NATO. First there was the USSR, now there's Islamic terrorism, tomorrow the yellow peril and the day after tomorrow surely something else. Instead of dismantling the bases, they enlarge them. In Italy we don't have nuclear power stations. To make up for that we host nuclear weapons at Ghedi Torre and at Aviano. And nuclear submarines at la Maddalena in Sardinia. About 30,000 Americans who are civilians or military.
They need to be informed that here there's no communist danger any more. That in Italy there has been no Islamic attack even though they are present here. That Togliatti has been off the scene for many years now. Why is there this occupation?
Isn't our army enough? Italy can't eternally remain the United States' aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. 62 years stay is enough for having lost the war.
Instead of getting dismantled, they are getting bigger. At Vicenza, they want to double the base. The city doesn't want them. The politicians want them. The mayor wants them. It's always the same old story.
Here it's no longer a question of left or right. It's a question of national sovereignty. In charge in our own home. Without agents of the CIA that move around like in a saloon. Without being a sensitive objective for attacks.

PS: This evening, Tuesday 16 January there's a torchlight procession in the centre of Vicenza organised by city campaign groups and by the Vicenza MeetUp. Meet at 8:30 pm in Piazza Castello. Come in vast numbers.

Many of you asked me where my nickname Asherah is from. So my english is too bad for say it in my words, so here is a Wikipedia Asherah page for you!

Who Is Asherah?


Asherah (from Hebrew אשרה), generally taken as identical with the Ugaritic goddess Athirat (more pedantically but accurately ʼAṯirat), was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing occasionally also in Akkadian sources as Ashratum/Ashratu and in Hittite as Asherdu(s) or Ashertu(s) or Aserdu(s) or Asertu(s).

In Ugarit

In the Ugaritic texts (before 1200 BC) Athirat is three times called ʼaṯrt ym, ʼAṯirat yammi, 'Athirat of the Sea' or as more fully translated 'She who treads on the sea', the name understood by various translators and commentators to be from the Ugaritic root ʼaṯr 'stride' cognate with the Hebrew root ʼšr of the same meaning. The sacred sea (lake) upon which Asherah trod was known as Yam Kinneret and is now called Lake Galilee.

In those texts, Athirat is the consort of the god El and there is one reference to the 70 sons of Athirat, presumably the same as the 70 sons of El. She is not clearly distinguished from ʿAshtart (better known in English as Astarte), although Ashtart is clearly linked to the Mesopotamian Goddess Ishtar. She is also called Elat (the feminine form of El) and Qodesh 'Holiness'.

Among the Hittites this goddess appears as Asherdu(s) or Asertu(s), the consort of Elkunirsa and mother of either 77 or 88 sons.

In Egypt

In Egypt, beginning in the 18th dynasty, a Semitic goddess named Qudshu ('Holiness') begins to appear prominently, equated with the native Egyptian goddess Hathor. Some think this is Athirat/Ashratu under her Ugaritic name Qodesh. This Qudshu seems not to be either ʿAshtart or ʿAnat as both those goddesses appear under their own names and with quite different iconography and appear in at least one pictorial representation along with Qudshu.

But in Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods there was a strong tendency towards syncretism of goddesses and Athirat/Ashrtum then seems to have disappeared, at least as a prominent goddess under a recognizable name.

In Israel and Judah

Biblical references have been taken to indicate that a goddess Asherah was worshipped in Israel and Judah, as the Queen of Heaven whose worship Jeremiah so vehemently opposed:

"Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger."

—Jeremiah 7:17–18

"... to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem ..."

—Jeremiah 44:17

The Hebrews baked small cakes for her festival.

But the word asherah also refers to a standing pole of some kind, pluralized as a masculine noun when it has that meaning. Among the Hebrews' Phoenician neighbors, tall standing stone pillars signified the numinous presence of a deity, and the asherahs may have been a rustic reflection of these. Or asherah may mean a living tree or grove of trees and therefore in some contexts mean a shrine. These uses have confused Biblical translators. Many older translations render Asherah as 'grove'. There is still disagreement among scholars as to the extent to which Asherah (or various goddesses classed as Asherahs) was/were worshipped in Israel and Judah and whether such a goddess or class of goddesses is necessarily identical to the goddess Athirat/Ashratu.

Most of the forty references to Asherah in the Hebrew Bible derive from sources edited by the Deuteronomist. In her study Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament (1997, p. 141), Tilde Binger noted that there is warrant for seeing an Asherah as, variously, "a wooden-aniconic-stela or column of some kind; a living tree; or a more regular statue." For Asherah often a wooden-made rudely carved statue planted on the ground of the house was her symbol, and sometimes a clay statue without legs and stood in the same way. Her idols were found also in forests, carved on living trees, or in the form of poles beside altars that were placed at the side of some roads.

When the young reformer Hezekiah came to the throne of Judah (possibly some time around the 7th century BC) "He removed the high places, and broke the pillars (massebahs), and cut down the Asherah." (2 Kings 18.4). In the Authorized Version of the Bible, the name Asherah is always mistranslated "grove". That error caused a theory that "the Hebrews cut down all the sacred groves, whereupon the land soon stopped flowing with milk and honey" (see deforestation).

Asherah and other gods

At Kuntillet 'Ajrud (in Hebrew Horvat Teman) in the Sinai Desert in the 1975 excavation, a pottery ostraca was inscribed "Berakhti et’khem l’YHVH Shomron ul’Asherato." (=I have blessed you by YHVH of Samaria and His Asherah.)

This would appear to show northern Israelite influence but others have suggested that "Shomron" should be read “shomrenu”, our Guardian.

Scholars have argued that this was a sacred site but others suggest it was a resting place, of a religious nature, for travellers following trade routes through the Sinai of the 8th century BC There may also be another reference YHVH and His Asherah in an inscription on the building wall.

An additional reference to YHVH and His Asherah, has been found at Khirbet el-Qom, near Hebron, where an inscription reads "Blessed be Uriyahu by Yahweh and by his asherah; from his enemies he saved him!" (Berlinerblau).

These have all raised great speculation. At Kuntillet there are accompanying drawings (not a later Hebrew custom) and more fundamentalist scholars argue that the oasis was a center of the religious cross-fertilization called syncretism.

Ashira in Arabia

A stele, now at the Louvre, discovered in the ancient oasis of Tema (the modern transcription is Tayma) in southwestern Arabia by Charles Huber in 1883, and believed to date to the time of Nabonidus's retirement there in 549 BC, bears an inscription in Aramaic which mentions Ṣalm of Maḥram and Shingala and Ashira as the gods of Tema. This Ashira might be Athirat/Asherah. Since Aramaic has no way to indicate Arabic th, corresponding to the Ugaritic th (more pedantically written as ṯ), if this is the same deity, it is not clear whether the name would be an Arabian reflex of the Ugaritic Athirat or a later borrowing of the supposed Hebrew/Canaanite Asherah.

Asherah and `Ashurah

In the ancient lunar calendar that became the Islamic calendar, the Day of ʿAshurah, transliterated also as Aashurah, Ashura or Aashoorah, falls on the 10th day of Muharram. On that day, in the year of the Hejira 61 (AD 680), Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of Muhammad was killed by Umayyad forces at the Battle of Karbala (now in Iraq). Still called by its ancient name, the Day of Ashurah, it has been observed ever since as a day of mourning by Shī`ites.

The name `Ashurah is interpreted as meaning "ten" in Arabic. (The normal Arabic word for ten is `asharah cognate to the Hebrew root `śr = "ten", the differing forms of s being the normal correspondence found in cognate roots between Arabic and Hebrew.)

Some try to connect the Arabic :Ashurah instead to the goddess Athirath/Asherah through the Ashira of Tema. But :Ashurah with initial letter :ain (ﻉ) is difficult to equate with 'Asherah; with beginning 'alef (here indicated by an apostrophe but normally omitted initially in popular transliterations from Semitic languages).

The connection is controversial. It is as though in English one were to say that the word juice refers to the god Zeus. The sound difference is very distinctive to Arabic ears. Yet cognate Semitic roots display this switching between ain and alif, and some Arabian accents pronounced, and indeed still do, pronounce `ain as a glottal stop (like the tribe of Tamim whose name is given to this way of pronunciation).

Asherah in fiction

In the science fiction book Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, Asherah is portrayed as a meta-virus brought to earth naturally or by alien broadcast. The Sumerian figure Enki is a proto-hacker or as Stephenson puts it "a neurolinguistic hacker" who uses his ability to manipulate people through language to introducing sentience to mankind and save them from the restrictive dogma of Asherah. Modern day glossolalia is attributed to a resurgence of the "cult of Asherah" and the meta-virus in humanity.

The worship of 'Asherat of the Sea' plays a large part in the plot of Jacqueline Carey's novel Kushiel's Chosen, placed in a fantasy version of Venice.

In the video game, Fire Emblem 'Path of Radiance', Ashera is a goddess, worshipped by the entire world. Armor blessed by the goddess can only be penetrated by weapons that are also blessed.

Related publications

• William G. Dever: Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion In Ancient Israel (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2005)
• Judith M.Hadley: The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah (U of Cambridge 2000)
• Jenny Kien: Reinstating the Divine Woman in Judaism (Universal 2000)
• Asphodel P. Long: In a Chariot Drawn by Lions (Crossing Press 1993).
• Raphael Patai: The Hebrew Goddess (Wayne State University Press 1990 and earlier editions)
• Steve A. Wiggins: A Reassessment of "Asherah": A Study According to the Textual Sources of the First Two Millennia B.C.E. (Kevelaer: Verlag Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1993).

Abaddon the "destroyer", hell's king of'Apocalipse, assimilated to Apollon.

Asmodeo the "revager", sorta kind of murderer, frequently identified with Abaddon or Apollyon, his speciality is luxury.

Eshmadai probably the ancient semitic name of Abaddon and Asmodeo

Astarotte, probably from the phoenician and cananean goddes Astarte, who was the goddes of love and war.

Behemoth, the beast from Giobbe, in the shape of demon/hippopotamus

Memnoch, very strong and evilish

Belial, the "wicked evil", from the phoenician god Baal (the lord), against who the prophets was very upset.

Belfagor , from Baal-fagor , (fagor could be the peor mountain), it's speciality is laziness

Diavolo , from the greek diabolos (=slanderer), the same of "satan"

Belzebù, from baal-zebub, god of the flyes. It's speciality is greed.

Demonio, from greek daimon, it's indoeuropean from the root for brilliant, light carrier.

Lucipher, light carrier, name of the Venus planet in the dawn. In the Bible he was the most beautiful angel that fought against yaweh. In the ancient near estern mitology he was a god at the same level of Yaweh, he was carrier of knowledge for humanity. (it needs it's own chapter)

Leviathan, it's a evil beast that inspires envy

Mefistofele, light enemy, lives in darkness

Satana, from Satan, semitic root for slanderer, opposer, it's speciality is anger.

Seth, egyptian god of war, evil, darkness. But not in a bad way, he could be friendly to humanity.

Mara. Indian god

Ahriman, Babilionian demon, jewish took it from their exile in Babilonia

Aeshma, Babilonian demon of anger

Pazuzu, Assirian demon of air (well known as the demon from The Exorcist)

Ascera or Asherah, Cananean goddes, wife of Yaweh, goddes of love and death

shedim, demons for jewish, shedim or shadam

Lilitti o Lilith, She was the first wife of Adam, erased from the last edition of the Bible. For Jewish now she's a demon, kind a witch

Azazel, Babilonian demon of derts

Tifone, greek monster

Ecate Artemis/Diana, in medieval ages she was identified with a witch

Pan, greek god, he inspired most of devil faces

Serpente, the animal that offered the apple (poor!)

Shaitan e Iblis, Islamic names for devil

Adramelech, great chancellor from Hell

Amduscias, granduke from Hell (great musician)

Kobal , Evil patron of singers and actors

Nergal, Sumerian god, translated in Infernal cop!!

Sidragasum, demon of dancers

Ukobach, it's speciality is fries!!

Zepar, warrior demon

Sirrael, Malanthan, Thamaor, Falaur, Sitrami, kings of Hell (Reginald Scott, Discovery of Witchcraft)

and more

Compagnone, Abalam, Zepar, Satanasso, Nanu Moru, Racecotena, parasacco, Diella, Mazzamauriello, Zifèrru, Farfariello, Santo di Càulu, Gjaul, Zefierno, Farfareddu, Mazzamereddu, Zuppiddu, Grande Becco, Gran nero, Leonardo, Ludovico, Macometto, Martino o Martinello, Pietro Lavoratore, Roberto, Signore del bosco, Ancilu niuru, Berlicche, Barbarosso, Barron, Bobò, Boborosso, Chiddu cu li corna, Chulicchiu, Cifero, Ciulefanasse, Cudicio, Fa-male, Farfagnic, Furfarello, Fistolo, Gran Vermo, Grappin, Bonnot, Robin, Griffon, Marjolaine, Bruyère, Sautebuisson, Lou Pecat, Mermet (negro dai piedi forcuti), Griffart (gallo nero), Corps diable (corvo), Borel, Revel, Guglielmo di Ginifert (bambino dal viso bianco), Hemerlé, Vollandt, Peterlé, Courtaulx (conventuale, trattasi di strumento musicale), Pantoufle, Mornifle (gioco di carte), Lucibello, Lucifugo, Lupo Fenris (derivazione nordica), Lu Tintu, Lu nnimicu, Lu virseriu, Tentennino, Old Nick, Old Horny, Old Scratch, Old Split-Foot, Old Gooseberry o Gooseberry, Der Teufel, Krampus, Schwarze Peter, Black Peter, Knecht Ruprecht, Martin Pignol, Resie , Michi Mitis, Malerobe, Maracut, Galafar, Codute, Barba Sucòn, Boboi, Mala Cosa, Mastru Gnaziu, Mazzamareddu, Mmalidittu, Ntantiddu, O' Munaciello, Puzzimene, Beemont, Iscaaron, Balaam, Gresil, Aman, Motelu, Lissi, Briffault, Puzzolente, Ravano, Serpi Fitenti, Tentennino, Ticchi-tacchi, Zupiddu...

'rn zp'l tb'l bn'hrm mlkgbl l'hrm 'bh ksth b'lm

I study 12 hours for finging out that above!! WTF!!!

"I'm the grave made by Ittobaal, son of Ahiram, king of Biblo, per Ahiram his father when he let him stay in eternity"

well mmm.....and I have only a month to translate all the tons of incription that lay on my table......uhhhhh
somebody help me!!!

Somalia : another war "Made in USA"
INTERVIEW OF MOHAMED HASSAN

This is not a war between Ethiopia and Somalia.
This is a war of the USA against all the peoples of the Horn of Africa.
Analysis by Mohamed Hassan *
Published 6th January on www.wpb.be
Contact (only) : busselen@skynet.be

To understand what is happening in the Horn of Africa, the nature of the
TPLF-regime of Zenawi Meles in Ethiopia that sent its troops into Somalia
last month must first be explained.

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) was created in 1975. In its
first manifesto it said its main objective was to create the Independent
republic of Tigray. This is a narrow nationalist and racist approach that
makes language the first factor to unite or divide people. There was
opposition to this narrow vision within the TPLF itself as well as within
the other organisations and fronts that fought against the Mengistu regime,
the dictatorship of that time.
The mainstream idea was that Tigray was part of Ethiopia and there was no
reason to claim independence for Tigray. The main objective for the
liberation struggle in Ethiopia was to create a new Ethiopia based on
equality of nationalities and brotherly relations with all neighboring
countries. After 50 years of war this very rich region inhabited by poor
people desired a new start and the beginning of a developing economy.
Zenawi Meles is a great demagogue and a liar. He uses Marxism-Leninism
today and tomorrow he will use Buddhism. The day after he will read a few
books and be the champion of Hinduism against Buddhism. He hid his narrow
Tigray-nationalist agenda of TPLF and created the Marxist Leninist League
of Tigray to gain control of the TPLF and eliminate all opposition against
his narrow racist ideology within it.
In the eighties when the struggle against the Mengistu dictatorship became
stronger he also created the EPRDFF which was a larger front of different
organisations representing different nationalities living in Ethiopia,
under the leadership of the TPLF. Meles pretended to unite Ethiopian
nationalities in the struggle for the liberation of Ethiopia, but all the
time its real objective was the creation of a greater Tigray, that controls
the other nationalities and regions in Ethiopia.
Once the Mengistu-regime fell, a transitional government was formed. The
EPLF (Eritrean People Liberation Front) from te neighboring country Eritrea
that was occupied by Ethiopia, convinced all the other organisations who
were members of this government that it was better to give military control
of the country to the army of TPLF. When Zenawi saw that in the regional
elections of 1992 the Omore liberation front won they began eliminating its
members from the government and the OLF left the government. Instead of
following a policy of integration of the different nationalities, Zenawi
followed a policy of "divide and rule" against all the other nationalities
in Ethiopia.
Today Zenawi's unbelievably narrow and reactionary dream of "a greater
Tigray" has become reality. The population of Tigray is only 6% of the
Ethiopian population (76 million) and Tigray is a poor region, situated at
800 km from the capital Addis Ababa. But it is Tigray-people who control
99% of public services and 98% of trade.
All opposition and protest is brutally repressed and the rule of the
TPLF/EPRDF is maintained by narrow racist nationalist policies that divide
the different Ethiopian nationalities.
In reality this is a very dangerous situation first of all for the Tigray
people itself. I know many people from Tigray who have lived their whole
lives in Addis Ababa and who flee the country, because they fell themselves
more and more hated each day by their neighbors of whom the overwhelming
majority are non Tigray.
At the same time the regime is very weak and depends completely on the
support of the USA.
The May 2005 elections were a big defeat for the EPRDF. The official
results published a month after the elections put the EPRDF in a minority
position of 45%. The EU observers confirmed the defeat of the EPRDF.
However the official election committee did an "investigation" and finally
gave 60% to the EPRDF. The leaders of the main opposition parties were put
in jail and many people were killed.
In the past year, the opposition inside Ethiopia has become more radical.
In August 2006, a group of high-ranking officers led by General Kamal
Galchuu joined the Oromo Liberation Front. In the Orome area a real
intifadah started up and a few months ago, the OLF launched an appeal to
all opposition groups to join the united front ADF (Alliance for Democracy
and Freedom).
The USA is pleased with the situation because this way it has a puppet that
completely depends on its financial, political and military support. The
Ethiopian state is becoming more and more a CIA-led state that is very
isolated.

The conflict with Eritrea.

In fact the military capacity of the EPRDF in the eighties was relatively
weak. It was its close relationship with the Eritrean People's Liberation
Front (EPLF) that was militarily strong that made victory over the dictator
Mengisthu in 1991 possible. It was the troops of the EPLF that liberated
the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. But the EPLF was a liberation movement
of a neighboring country, Eritrea, that had been occupied by Ethiopia since
1952 and was annexed in 1962. And the objective of the EPRF was to liberate
Eritrea from the Ethiopian occupation. So it formed a close alliance with
the EPRDF/TPLF to topple the Ethiopian government. Once this was done, the
EPLF took over the administration of Eritrea and organized in Eritrea a
referendum in 1993 where more then 98% of Eritreans voted for independence.
While in Ethiopia a transitional government was formed led by EPRDF/TPLF.
The EPLF held on to its ideals of a liberation movement that wanted to
develop its country for the interest of its people. So it followed a policy
based upon self-reliance, mobilising the population, installing national
structures, refusing outside interference via Western NGOs and controlling
foreign trade. The EPLF also followed a policy based on national
integration and cohabitation of the 9 Eritrean nationalities and the two
religions (Christian and Muslim).
This was just the opposite of the policy Zenawi followed in Ethiopia that
was based on privatisation, foreign donors and the policy of International
institutions such as the IMF and the WB.
Confronted with this difference, Eritrea decided in 1997 to stop using the
Ethiopian pound and chose to have its own currency, the Nakfa.
>From then on, there were many provocative acts and killings of Eritrean
>officers and soldiers at the border that triggered off a war, which lasted
>from 1998 to 2000.
It was a catastrophic war; on the Ethiopian side 135.000 soldiers died. In
fact the Ethiopians lost the war and were forced to accept the Algiers
agreement in 2000.
The agreement included three phases:
1. A commission of the International Court in The Hague would decide
on the territorial dispute and the exact location of the border.
2. Another commission of the International Court would decide on the
claims of the two parties for confiscation or damage to property of
citizens thate were confiscated by the other side.
3. Finally a commission of the African Union would decide on the
question which country started the war and should have the responsibility
to compensate for the immense damage that was caused by the war.
The two first commissions have already concluded in favor of the Eritrean
position and claims. It is almost certain that the third commission will
condemn Ethiopia, because the Ethiopian government accused Eritrea of
starting the war by an air-attack against the city of Adi-Grat and
occupying the village Badima. This story of Eritrean jets bombing this city
was a lie; once the commission examines this story, the truth will be
crystal clear. What is more: the first commission already decided that
Badima was Eritrean territory.
So there is a sword of Damocles hanging above the government of Zenawi
Meles. Until now the African Union, under pressure from the USA, postponed
the foundation of the third commission. But sooner or later, this third
commission will be formed.

The very risky war against Somalia

The extremely fragile position of the Meles-regime can explain its
offensive to attack Somalia last December. Indeed, by attacking Somalia
under pretext of attacking "the allies and even members of Al Qaeda" Zenawi
wants to position himself as a friend of the U.S. and Bush's strong man in
the Horn of Africa in the US global war against Islamic terror. But this is
a very risky operation.

First of all, Ethiopia and Somalia have had a long history of animosity and
wars. For the Somalis the Ethiopian invasion is an aggression of an
archenemy. It could be compared to a military intervention by Germany in
Belgium or France. Somalis are one people, have one language and one
religion. The only factor that is dividing them is the clans. Confronted
with a foreign occupation force, however, they can unite and deal heavy
blows. It was the Americans themselves who experienced this in 1993. At
that moment they had sent 30.000 marines to the country in a military
operation called "Restore Hope". But soon they had to withdraw because of
their losses and the fact that the dead corpses of American soldiers were
dragged through the streets in front of the cameras.

Second, the Somali people are tired of the chaos and destruction of 16
years of a warlord regime. However it is just the same warlords who have
been protected and brought to power again in Mogadishu by the Ethiopian
army. The warlords were hated before by all Somalis for their corruption.
Now they will be despised as traitors and stooges for the number one enemy
of the Somali people, Ethiopia.

Third, The overwhelming majority of Somalis saw the Islamic Courts as a
stabilizing factor. This support of the Islamic Courts was not a support
for international terrorists. Most jihadists do not speak Somali and few
speak Arabic. They stand out too much with their different eating habits
and clothing. When the population helped the Islamic Courts to defeat the
warlords in a few weeks time and then to liberate practically the whole
country in six months, it was because they were tired of the anarchy, the
pillage of the warlords. You must know that since 1991, 3 million Somalis
have left the country and the Somali diaspora are often modern secular
people who try to help their country in spite of the warlords' corruption.
And they are very ingenious at doing that. For example, in spite of all the
chaos, Somalia is one of the only African countries where every village has
good telephone communication facilities. There is an informal banking
system (1 billion $ a year). There are five private airways and so on. A
large number of Diaspora Somalis were willing to return to Somalia, and
rebuild the country, once peace and security were ensured. When Somali
businessmen went to the American embassy in Nairobi to invite them to come
to Somalia and see for themselves that there were no Al Qaeda members in
the Islamic Courts, the Americans refused. They will never forget nor
forgive the USA and their puppet Ethiopia for bringing Somalia back to the
reign of terror and chaos of the warlords. And in their eyes it is crystal
clear that the talk about Al Qaeda's presence in Somalia is nothing else
then the excuse, the lie that must justify the war. Just like the lies
about the weapons of mass destruction of Saddam used to justify the
aggression against Irak.

Fourth, all Somalis are aware of the fact that in the sixteen years of
anarchic rule by the warlords, there was never any initiative of the
"International Community" to intervene in Somalia. However, just when the
Islamic courts brought order and stability, they saw in November last year
the UN Security council under the instigation of the USA vote the
resolution 1752 that opened the door for the Ethiopian intervention that
brought back the terror and anarchy they had just chased away. So the only
way the common Somali can see this invasion is that of an aggression
against the Somali people and nation.

Fifth, The invading soldiers of Zenawi in Somalia are largely from his
Tigray Christian tribe. These soldiers do not speak the Somali language;
once deep inside Somalia, they will be exposed to attacks by the locals.
But also in Ethiopia itself, Zenawi needs these men back as soon as
possible because he needs them to confront the growing revolt in his own
country. It is true; the Americans are negotiating with Uganda and Nigeria
to deliver 8000 troops to replace the Ethiopian army. But who will pay for
this operation and will these poor governments take the risk of being
sucked into the swamp of a guerilla war? Certainly the different
neighboring countries such as Kenya and Uganda take high risks because
there are many Somali refugees living in Kenya who will not forget nor
forgive a Kenyan engagement on the side of Ethiopia.. The Ugandan economy
largely depends on the Kenyan harbor of Mombassa, but 30 km of this harbor
there is a city Lamui where Somalis are in the majority... So it may well
be that Zenawi's troops will be forced to stay too long in Somalia and that
they will be sucked into a swamp that will be fatal for the TPLF/regime.

What is the role of the Americans in this war?

The Zenawi regime is a rogue force used in the hands of American
imperialism in the region. Since Antony Lake, Clinton's national security
advisor, indicated Ethiopia as one of the four countries (the others were
Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt) that are decisive for the defense of
American interests in Africa, the government of Zenawi has had all the
support it needed.
The Ethiopian army is at present being reformed as a local mercenary force
in the service of the Americans that can be used against any country in the
region. On one of the American army's websites, Stars and Stripes
(<http://www.estripes.com/),>http://www.estripes.com/), one could read on
30 December the testimony of one of the sixty American instructors who are
training Ethiopian soldiers. Sgt. 1st Class Bill Flippo is an instructor
based at Camp Hurso near in the city of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. He says; "I
feel that what I'm doing now is really helping to fight the war on terror,"
Flippo said. "The knowledge we are giving to these soldiers is what they
will use if they go and fight in Somalia, Eritrea or wherever."
Many observers note that the invasion of Somalia by Ethiopia was not only
encouraged, and protected by the USA, but even paid by USA-money. And after
the first successes, American military participated directly with the
Ethiopian army in the hunt for leaders of the Islamic courts.

What are the American interests in the region?

There is the presence of oil and gas reserves. Since 1986, four big oil
transnational corporations received permission for the first time from the
Somalian president Siad Barre to search for oil. And they found important
reserves.
But most of all : Somalia has a very strategic location. It has a coast of
3300km. This is the largest coastline in Africa. One part of this coastline
is just in front of the most important region in the world for the moment,
the Middle East.
Another part of the coastline faces the Indian Ocean. You must know that
before the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century, there was
considerable traffic between India and Africa that passed by harbors on
this coast. 10% of the words of the Somali language are words of Indian
origin.
The Emir of the Indian State of Kudjrad had bodyguards that came from the
Horn of Africa. In the Somali harbors there were also Somali who spoke
Chinese. They were called "Abanas". They were translators between the
Chinese and businessmen from the African hinterland.
This century the historical wheel is turning again towards the emerging
countries of China and India. Chalmers Johnson, author and president of the
Japan Policy Research Institute, cites Javed Burki, a former vice-president
of the World Bank's China Department who predicts that by 2025 China will
probably have a GDP of $25 trillion in terms of purchasing power parity and
will have become the world's largest economy followed by the US at $ 20
trillion.
(<http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2259)>http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2259)
This year we also saw important efforts from China to increase its trade
with Africa. China urgently needs oil and other minerals for its rapidly
developing economy. And Africa can respond to that need. So the Horn of
Africa has become a very strategic place for the next twenty years.
Since the Bush-government cannot control the whole world, they prefer a
policy of deliberately destabilizing the whole region for many years,
rather than letting it become a wealthy region that can play a key-role in
the increasing trade relations between Africa and the new emerging
economies of Asia.
There are Somalis living in different neighboring countries such as
Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti. Somali nationalism has ignited and this war will
extend into places like Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya, known until now
mostly as a safari destination for Western tourists.
The peoples of the region are becoming mature. They see what is happening
and their first reaction is that of horror. If the Bush agenda of
destabilizing and genocide continues, anti-imperialist feelings will
increase and people will unite to defend their homes and countries.

* Mohamed Hassan is the son of a member of the resistance against the
regime of emperor Haile Selasie. He was born in Addis Ababa in 1958.
1972-1974 : active in the student movement against the emperor Haile Selassie.
1974-76: after the revolution in 1974 he was elected to the local council
in Addis Ababa.
1976: spent a year in Somalia.
1977: spent seven months in South-Yemen en traveled in 1978 -
1980 to Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Irak, Saudi-Arabia and Lebanon. In 1981 he arrived
in Belgium where he studied languages and public administration sciences.
1982: cofounder of an NGO "Somali Ogaden Comitee", which helped Somalian
Ethiopians in the diaspora.
1991: studies and doctorate in pedagogy at the VUB-university of Brussels.
1992-1994: after the revolution he returned to Ethiopia and became a
diplomat in the embassies of Brussels, Beijing and Washington. In 1994 he
left the diplomatic service because he disagreed with government policy. In
1995 he returned to Brussels and worked as a pedagogue in the Regionaal
Integratie Centrum. Since 2000 he has collaborated with the bilingual
publication Etudes Marxistes / Marxistische studies, where he has published
articles such as Nation and nationalism (in nr 49), Saudi Arabia and
Wahabism and The Muslim Brothers in Egypt (in nr 61). In 2003 he wrote a
book with David Pestieau on the war in Iraq that has been published in
French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German and Turkish. L'Irak face à
l'Occupation (Iraq eye to eye with the occupation).

SEX PISTOLS

 

 

Nel 1971 il talent scout Malcom McLaren, di ritorno dagli Stati Uniti, ebbe l’idea di creare un gruppo che facesse da contraltare al dilagare della musica commerciale e della disco music.

Così organizzo un centro per giovani ‘anti-conformisti’ nella sua boutique nel centro di Londra, che si chiamava, guarda un po’, ‘Sex’.

Attorno a questo ‘negozio-centro sociale’ si organizzò una band, composta da John ‘Rotten’ Lyndon come voce, Glen Matlock come bassista, Steve Jones alla chitarra e Paul Cook alla batteria.

I Sex Pistols: da sinistra Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, John ‘Rotten’ Lyndon e Paul Cook (1978)

Negli USA erano appena esplosi i Ramones, che esprimevano l’alienazione tramite testi idioti e musiche velocissime e radicali. I Sex Pistols si ispirarono alla loro scuola, ma presero una strada ben diversa: presero ad urlare a squarciagola contro il disagio sociale dei giovani inglesi di fine decennio. Al grido di battaglia dei Ramones, il demenziale “Gabba Gabba Hey!” si sostituisce il lancinante urlo ‘no future’ di John Rotten. In breve la band esprime il nichilismo e l’ostilità di un’intera generazione, incendiando l’opinione pubblica dell’Inghilterra perbenista, creando scandali a non finire.

Il 30 marzo del 1976 il gruppo esordisce in un locale londinese, il 100 Club, e con le loro esecuzioni selvagge ma cariche di enfasi conquistarono subito il giovane pubblico di emarginati, tutti in cerca di qualcosa con cui sfogare la loro rabbia esistenziale; si riconobbero immediatamente nelle fucilate delle loro canzoni.

I Sex Pistols non facevano mistero del loro analfabetismo musicale, anzi lo esibivano oltraggiosamente assieme all’indifferenza asociale e alla perversione maniacale. Divennero autori della più profonda provocazione a cui l’Inghilterra decrepita e cadente del dopoguerra fosse mai stata sottoposta.

La Band durante il tour in Svezia

Il 20 settembre 1976 si tenne il primo festival punk. I Sex Pistols ne furono ovviamente protagonisti, facendosi immancabilmente notare. I giornali e le autorità li deprecarono, biasimarono e criticarono furiosamente, ma nonostante ciò la EMI gli propose un contratto. Accettarono e incisero il primo 45 giri: l’indimenticabile furia di Anarchy in the U.K. (novembre 1976), bandiera di ogni ribellione.

L’isteria, la paranoia, la generale indifferenza verso ogni regola musicale e sociale, la brutalità (e sincerità) dei loro testi attirarono contro il gruppo nugoli di critiche. Ma nè John Rotten, né gli altri componenti della band fecero molto per allontanare questi giudizi, anzi: i Sex Pistols crearono un incidente dopo l’altro, indifferenti al successo e al denaro che ottennero continuarono a vagabondare per Londra come selvaggi, mettendo a ferro e fuoco ogni locale da loro frequentato.

In breve tempo le loro esecuzioni sfrontate, il loro comportamento menefreghista, li fece bandire dai palchi dell’intero Regno Unito. Le loro canzoni furono censurate e tolte dalle radio, anzi forse nemmeno vi approdarono. Così il 30 marzo 1977 la EMI ruppe il contratto, si legarono alla A&M ma durò poco e furono di nuovo cacciati.

Anarchy in the U.K., malgrado censure e critiche feroci, saliva nelle charts, arrivando alla numero uno e creando imbarazzo a quelli del Billboard, che dovettero trasmettere spot in bianco a causa della censura.

Nel frattempo Matlock venne espulso dalla band perché troppo ‘irrequieto’ e venne sostituito da qualcuno se possibile anche peggio di lui: Sid Vicious (John Ritchie), che non sapeva davvero nemmeno suonare il suo strumento ma che malgrado tutto si integrò perfettamente nella band.

Johnny Rotten sul battello per festeggiare il ‘giubileo’ della regina Elisabetta (1977)

Poco dopo l’ingresso di Sid nel gruppo venne inciso il secondo 45 giri: God save the Queen. In perfetta coincidenza con il giubileo della regina Elisabetta. Il brano metteva in luce quello che tutti gli inglesi sapevano ma non volevano dire: sottolineava l’inutilità di una monarchia succhiasoldi, il ristagno della società, la decadenza. Il grido ‘no future’ toccò profondamente l’animo dei giovani punk, ma altrettanto profondamente toccò i patrioti e i governanti: il brano venne messo al bando, i punk bollati come teppisti barbari e incontrollabili. Nonostante ciò, la sera del giubileo un battello discese il Tamigi e i Sex Pistols eseguirono God Save the Queen per la gioia di tutti coloro che potevano ascoltarli e saltò al primo posto delle classifiche scalzando Anarchy in the U.K.

Il successivo 45 giri, Pretty Vacant, bissò la pioggia di critiche e indignazione, raggiungendo in fretta la vetta delle charts. Fu un altro duro colpo sferrato alle fondamenta dell’edificio governativo, che traballò duramente davanti alla chiara denuncia della disoccupazione che dilagava sotto gli occhi di tutti. Questo brano assume però una strana maggiore musicalità, malgrado le urla di Rotten non mutino di una virgola e il resto della band continui a comportarsi come un gruppo di teppisti di strada qualunque.

La Londra perbenista assiste impotente al dilagare del fenomeno punk, che troppo spesso verrà confuso con la violenza gratuita di alcuni gruppi che punk non erano ma si celavano dietro il capro espiatorio incarnato dai Sex Pistols.

A contratto con la Virgin, esce nel 1977 Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols, che raccoglie i loro infiammati 45 giri, più altre canzoni al vetriolo come l’oscena Bodies, l’apocalittica Holidays in the Sun, la sarcastica No feelings e la amara denuncia di New York.

Ma la vita sregolata dei vari componenti porta difficoltà nella gestione di una simile band. Vengono continuamente mollati dalle case discografiche a cui si legano e alle quali non fanno che portare guai. McLaren li molla al loro destino. Sid Vicous cade nell’indifferenza e nell’autolesionismo, si chiude in un mondo fatto solo di droga e di Nancy. Il declino ormai è inarrestabile: il 14 gennaio 1978 si esibiscono a San Francisco, portando il loro punk radicale in quella zona della California che poi sarà particolarmente fertile per questo genere, ed è qui che viene annunciato lo scioglimento.

I Sex Pistols si accorgono di essere stati sfruttati dalle major per scopi commerciali, venendo usati per ciò che loro osteggiavano; realizzarono che stavano per essere inclusi in quel mondo che odiavano e decisero semplicemente di finirla lì.

Johnny Lindon, abbandona il suo epiteto ‘Rotten’ e si costruisce una nuova carriera, rompendo con il resto della band. Sid Vicious terminerà la sua vita appena un anno dopo morendo d’overdose, portando fino alle estreme conseguenze una vita di ribellione e nichilismo e concludendo in maniera esemplare tutta l’esperienza dei Sex Pistols.

Uno degli ultimi concerti negli USA (1978)

La fine tragica di Sid creò scompiglio e dolore in tutto il mondo del punk; egli era nell’immaginario di un’intera generazione la figura del martire/profeta di una società in subbuglio, come lo erano stati al loro tempo Jim Morrison e Jimmy Hendrix; dovranno passare venti anni perchè il nichilismo e l’anarchia che furono sue bandiere si incarnassero in qualcuno di veramente degno: con  Kurt Cobain la paranoia e l’ansia maniacale torneranno ad esprimere il disagio di una nuova generazione; naturalmente l’esito sarà lo stesso.

 

I Sex Pistols si sono riuniti, con Glen Matlock al basso per sostituire Sid, per una serie di concerti nel 1996, ma la loro musica sembrò non avere più lo charme isterico dei bei tempi, e dopotutto non c’era più Sid a fare l’epilettico sul palco e questo non giovò nell’immaginario collettivo: i vecchi fan ebbero la sensazione che quella fosse una trovata commerciale di McLaren, oppure la marcia funebre dei più grandi profeti dell’Inghilterra post seconda guerra mondiale. 

 

SID VICIOUS (1957-1979)

 

Il più chiaro prodotto della società inglese della fine degli anni Settanta. Simbolo della deriva in cui versava una intera generazione. Martire della società, capro espiatorio dei Media. Semplice ragazzo bruciato, colpito in fretta dalla vita. Quante definizioni si possono dare ad un ventenne sbarbatello inglese? Sicuramente John Simon Ritchie (o Beverly come sostengono altri), nei pochissimi anni in cui fu al centro dell’attenzione e delle ire di un’intera nazione, ha lasciato un segno indelebile nella storia del rock, e nella storia del punk in particolare.

John nasce il 10 maggio 1957 a Londra e viene cresciuto nel sud dell’Inghilterra da una madre sola e cocainomane. Sin da giovanissimo prende a frequentare ragazzi di strada di ogni tipo, entrando nel gruppo di teppisti noto come i John’s. Ed è allora che comincia la ribellione del piccolo John verso un mondo che sembrava troppo vasto e menefreghista, o troppo piccolo e miserevole.

Il soprannome gli viene affibbiato dall’amico di lunga data Johnny ‘Rotten’ Lyndon, il quale lo paragonò al suo criceto Sid, che aveva ucciso tutti i suoi fratelli. Fu così che nacque ‘Sid il cattivo’, futuro simbolo di un’intera generazione in rivolta.

Nel 1975 John ‘Rotten’ Lyndon fonda i Sex Pistols assieme a Glen Matlock (basso), Steve Jones (chitarra) e Paul Cook (batteria). Sid ne diventa il primo fan, li segue ovunque e frequenta tutti i loro primi concerti. E’ lui, il ‘cattivo’, ad inventare la pratica del pogo ai concerti: saltare e spingere la gente che aveva accanto, a volte anche violentemente, era una tecnica che gli serviva per vedere meglio il palco; ma presto lo scompiglio generato da questi spintoni sembrò essere perfettamente in linea con la musica che si ascoltava e la gente ai concerti cominciò ad imitarlo, per divertirsi. A quel punto la tecnica non era più ne utile ne divertente e Sid l’abbandonò.

Nel 1977 i Sex Pistols, che avevano gettato l’opinione pubblica inglese nel panico con il brano ‘Anarchy in the U.K.’, espellono Glen Matlock. Rotten lo rimpiazza velocemente facendo entrare l’amico Sid Vicious nel gruppo.

Sid entra a far parte della storia del punk senza saper suonare nemmeno uno strumento, ma promettendo di mettere impegno nell’imparare almeno il basso.

Johnny Rotten insegna a Sid come suonare il basso (1977)

Pochi mesi dopo Sid il cattivo è già leggenda. Il piccolo John, appena ventenne, sembra aver deciso di andare contro ogni morale e ogni regola. Di essere un anarchista sul serio, come cantava l’amico Rotten.

I Sex Pistols continuano a gettare vetriolo sulla società inglese, portano all’estremo le folleggianti prese in giro che i Ramones avevano creato negli Stati Uniti ed esportato in Europa appena un anno prima. Ma per il gruppo inglese tutto è diverso: la vita della bassa classe inglese è dura, difficile, s’impara presto a diventare indifferenti. I ragazzi capiscono presto di non aver futuro, la disoccupazione dilaga, l’IRA colpisce sempre più spesso con i suoi attentati creando terrore, la guerra fredda porta insicurezza, l’inutile battaglia delle Falkland porta dolore. In breve ‘Rotten’ Sid e gli altri si fanno portavoce dei sentimenti che pervadono la gioventù inglese di fine decennio, ma che nessuno aveva avuto ancora il coraggio di esprimere. Sid Vicious li incarna in pieno e Londra è invasa dalla ‘barbarie’ punk.

Ma chi conobbe bene John sostiene con fermezza che egli non fu così cattivo come mostrava sul palco, anzi forse era addirittura spaventato dall’audience che aveva creato attorno a se. La sua cattiveria era solo una richiesta d’amore, che nessuno sembrava in grado di dargli, visto il suo ostinato carattere asociale.

Nel frattempo approda a Londra Nancy Spungen, ragazza difficile della classe media di Philadelfia. E’ una giovane donna tormentata da problemi esistenziali, cocainomane, che sbarca il lunario facendo la prostituta nei loft di Londra, ma che sa benissimo cosa vuole: conquistare uno dei Sex Pistols; e in quest’ottica Sid era carne facile. I due s’incontrano nel loft di un amico nel centro di Londra e Nancy riesce a trovare subito il modo d’ingaggiarlo e di legarlo indissolubilmente a lei.

Il giovane Sid, che a detta degli amici non riuscì mai ad avere un rapporto equilibrato con nessuno, apparve immediatamente dipendente dal suo amore. Con lei era come un bambino con la madre, nella disperata ricerca di quell’affetto che non aveva mai avuto.

E fu Nancy ad introdurre Sid nel mondo dell’eroina, a farlo diventare dipendente dalle droghe. La sua vita cambia radicalmente, la sua personalità si fa sempre più oscura, non riesce più a prendere la musica seriamente. Persino quelle performance sul palco, che l’avevano reso famoso per il suo carisma ribelle, diventano sempre più blande ed autolesioniste: in uno degli ultimi concerti prima di salire sul palco si ferisce il braccio e compare in scena ricoperto di sangue…

All’interno della band i rapporti si fanno sempre più tesi. L’eccessivo successo non ha distolto nessuno di loro dalle loro ideologie iniziali, semplicemente li ha allontanati da quella gioventù che avevano così esemplarmente interpretato. Il 14 Gennaio 1978 i Sex Pistols si sciolgono dopo aver espugnato la roccaforte hippie, San Francisco.

Sid e Nancy si trasferiscono a New York e lui tenta una carriera solista, con scarso successo. La vita con la fidanzata si fa tempestosa. L’alcol e la droga sembrano diventate l’unica consolazione.

Il 12 ottobre 1978 Nancy Spungen venne trovata assassinata nella vasca da bagno della loro camera al Chelsea Hotel, accoltellata allo stomaco. Sid viene trovato nella stanza completamente fatto di eroina, si autoaccusa dell’omicidio e la polizia lo arresta malgrado numerose persone abbiano affermato di aver visto Nancy entrare in camera con uno sconosciuto e che Sid era rimasto al centro dell’attenzione per tutta la sera.

Qualche mese dopo venne rilasciato su cauzione e messo in libertà vigilata. La madre lo raggiunge a New York per stargli accanto. Privato di Nancy Sid non è che un fantasma di se stesso. Poco dopo tenta il suicidio tagliandosi le vene con un coltello, urlando come impazzito di voler essere lasciato in pace, di voler stare solo con Nancy. Ma venne salvato.

Secondo la leggenda la sera del 1 febbraio 1979 fu sua madre ad acquistare la dose di eroina che poi lo avrebbe ucciso, spaventata che potesse venir arrestato mentre girava nelle strade di New York. La donna raccontò di essere stata con lui mentre prendeva la dose in un appartamento del Greenwich Village.

La mattina del 2 febbraio 1979 John Simon Ritchie, che ormai tutti conoscevano solo come Sid Vicious, viene trovato morto nella sua stanza, per overdose a soli 21 anni. Primo martire del punk.

Non si sa ancora con certezza se si trattò di suicidio o di un incidente. La tesi del suicidio è avvalorata dal biglietto trovato sul suo comodino dalla madre. Si trattava di una poesia, intitolata ‘Nancy’ :

 

 

 

You were my little baby girl                                 Tu eri  la mia piccola bambina

And I knew all your fears                                     E conoscevo tutte le tue paure

Such joy to old you in my arms                          Quale gioia stringerti tra le mie braccia

And kiss away your tears                                     E asciugarti le lacrime

But now you’re gone                                           Ma ora te ne sei andata

There’s only pain                                                C’è solo dolore

And nothing I can do                                           E non c’è nulla che possa fare

And I don’t want to live this life                         E non voglio vivere questa vita

If I can’t live for you                                          Se non posso vivere per te

 

 

Non si conosce il luogo in cui fu sepolto il corpo di Sid. La leggenda vuole che la madre l’abbia fatto cremare, come lui aveva chiesto, e che nottetempo e contro la volontà della famiglia di Nancy, abbia sparso le ceneri di Sid Vicious sulla tomba della sua amata, come lui aveva chiesto.

 

 

 

 

La vita del cattivo Sid è stata portata sul grande schermo in diversi film, tra cui Sid&Nancy di Alex Cox nel 1986, e narrata in innumerevoli libri. A lui è dedicato il brano Tu Menti, dei CCCP Fedeli alla Linea.

 

Undermine their pompous authority                            Mina la loro pomposa autorità

Reject their moral standards                                       Rifiuta i loro standards morali

Make Anarchy and disorder your trademarks            Rendi l’Anarchia e il disordine tuoi marchi

Cause as much chaos and distruption as possible      Causa quanto più caos e distruzione possibile

But don’t let them take you alive                                 Ma non lasciare che ti prendano vivo

Undermine Their Pompous Authority
Reject Their Moral Standards
Make Anarchy And Disorder Your Trademarks
Cause As Much Caos And Distruption As Possible
But Don't Let Them To Take You

ALIVE

Hi dear!! I'm still in holiday! When I come here I always fight with myself for homecoming!! Here I have good days....I spent a lot of time by the sea....I really like sea in winter....I like winter! The sea has this colour...like blue/grey....it seems so deep and dark....And there is no one around, only me and Max, the dog, and my mp3 player with this Uneasy Listening vol1 by HIM (finally I've got it!)....That's when I feel in peace with the world, no problems, I don't have to cook lunch or dinner, don't have to clean my room, don't have to study....nothing!! I only walk up and down on the sand, find some shells, think about the world....stuff like that!!
Tomorrow I'll came home, I have to study for winter examination....I have to do something I like, but there will not be the sea!!

Hi all! See you soon!

Don't know if i have to be happy or not......but I'm at home...again!
The journey was good and I enjoy it. Budapest was good, not to cold has it was years ago and (sigh!) there was no snow!
We lived in a really nice flat where we had everything we wanted!

So, go to see our pics!!