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POETRY = TERRORISM?

All Tyrants believe Poets to be their worst enemies - Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Russian Poet

I have noticed a disturbing tendency for news reporters to quote poetry when talking about terrorism attacks. Here is the most glaring example - in this article the author quotes both Auden and Wallace-Crabbe, it begins - As Melburnians go about their business tomorrow, a panel of key emergency response people will imagine bombs exploding and people dying on our streets.. I suspect that the above quote All Tyrants believe Poets to be their worst enemies is relevant to John Howard - his new sedition laws include the clause that seditious intention is to urge dissatisfaction toward the Government of the Commonwealth - this is communist China territory he is stepping in- remember this back in 2000 -

China bans poets conference - “Dissident writers invited to the meeting included a poet arrested during a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989, sponsors of underground poetry reviews and a writer who posted poems on
the Internet expressing dissatisfaction with modern Chinese society

” Empahasis mine - even though I didnt really need it, the comparison is not only obvious, it is word for word. out.

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