Treacherous Lessons

Do you think Mrs Merkel is keen to recover any poll results as the elections in Iran were already decided in her government´s head?

Do you think Gordon Brown´s concern are the gathering people on streets in Iran?

Do you think Mr Sarkozy is an honest and independent voice to support protesters versus a theocratic regime?

Do you think Mr Obamas concerns are focussed on burning tires and dust bins?

Do you think it is worth dying to be surrounded by six, seven, eight people that stick their mobile phone into your face? Your death is getting public, solitude has been turned into publicity. The more you bleed, the louder you scream, the more you die, the better for the foundations of what you thought was caring for freedom. You are another idol now, a biased error of mass symbols. Where words fail, images are erected as universal speakers to the crowd, and your headshot is a slap that makes the play more tragic.

What a bloodshed. Burnt into flash cards.



A. Paul Weber, Hammerschlaege, 1971