Aun San Si Kinky Demands Shutdown of Al-Hurriya Television

Aun San Si Kinky Demands Shutdown of Al-Hurriya Television

Nivad Almani

The Burmese human rights icon has up a petition among Nobel Prize Laureates to help the Rohingya people.

N: “Thank you for this interview.”

A: “I will roll it straight out. These wicked rumours I had no heart for the Rohingya people are totally untrue. A frivolous lie fabricated by spoon-paid rumour mill serfs. It annoys everyone.”

N: “So what? I did not notice you took any time for them.”

A: “Of course you did not. This is why I invited you. I spent my time with the Rangoon Institute of Colonial Studies doing research about media freedom. Because I think the best way to shut down the rumour mill is to set the serfs free. So I went to study the birth stories of free media across the world, how they came about, what are the conditions of their possibility, how do they think of themselves how they could have made anything better, in a comparative colonialism criticism curriculum. Then I chose one case from a foreign culture, or two actually, and went through it in depth. This is by the way the heart of a free university: You can choose your in depth subject without any rivalry. This case study has now resulted in a scientifically solid petition.”

N: “A petition?”

A: “Not yet a public one, since it is only being circulated among nobel buddies. It gives an abstract of one specific media outlet with a serious congenital error and a recommendation how to treat it.”

N: “And you want experts not crowds?”

A: “I do collect for the stage before I collect for the audience. Final shutdown is a treatment that cannot be administered in a stampede. I make an argument that this specific case is a blueprint of a rumour mill scientifically requiring shutdown. Such a kind of proposal must double and triple secure itself in all directions before asking anyone to rely upon it. These are the basic customs of our community which the public knows for our results.”

N: “I want to have your argument.”

A: “An imperialist army occupies several countries. They are not operating like an intensive care unit in a clinic, hahaha. They are carrying on their legacy depravity from country to country. My specific case belongs into this category. I researched how the British developed a particular depravity in Bangladesh and how after their takeover by the Americans the latter re-enacted the same in the Middle East.”

N: “What do you mean by depravity?”

A: “Occupation implies that media must obtain a publishing license from the occupier. On the ground this means that no one can set up media but the occupier. Local writers are not or not fully allowed to set up themselves, the threat of censorship is blurring the lines in their considerations before they come to decide, choices are limited, and so forth. By depravity I mean the presence of good cop bad cop theatrics in such a serious administrative procedure which self-evidently is not for gambling.”

N: “Good cop bad cop gambling?”

A: “Exactly. Think of three participants, the old officer, the young officer and the local chief. What the British did in Bangladesh is, the old officer issues the publishing permit with a paragraph that effectively says any censorship generally reserved. When the negotiations get sweaty, at some point the young officer takes your hand with the pen and guides it striking out the censorship clause. Or incites you to do so with the old officer. Or talks around that you had been watching the two doing this, or not. It is in no protocol. You are the only eyewitness. Which effectively makes your permit worth less than the bare paper for your tribe.”

N: “Not with my hands.”

A: “What would you do?”

N: “A top samizdat story of it!”

A: “Fine. Hence you are not a depravity case.”

N: “But some media outlet in Bangladesh is. Which one is it?”

A: “It is long forgotten. It did not exist that long. And as our said our evidence from there spreads across many cases.”

N: “You said you would only invite me for top stories?”

A: “That is why it is being balled Comparative Colonialism Criticism Curriculum. In the back cases there are no huge stories. Everyone knows the vile media bias against Rohingya. It spread across the region before its epicentre was painted over, and is neither gone nor hidden. But you have to make a distinction between a scientific petition and an attention-whoring lamentation. I am not interested in a blame campaign against Bangladesh, because they are going with the wind and the change. The top story is how the Americans reproduced the very same constellation a generation later in the Middle East.”

N: “And you intend your community to understand, consider, evaluate and secure this head-aching configuration before telling the public?”

A: “I think by now we are in the approval stage.”

N: “But you want to tell me why it matters for the Rohingya people.”

A: “Any such argument would have to be based on a an introduction why the Middle East matters for Muslim people, on qualified comparisons of the circumstances of stateless Muslim people in the Middle East and here in East Asia, on the history and current crisis of British and American imperialism there, that is on an enormous amount of foreign-related knowledge. But when in the Middle East turmoil and propaganda tossing the name and image of the Rohingya people is being abused as a prop to represent particular interests in context, that brings about resentment here on the ground of the short-cut of blaming the victims for their identity abusers.”

N: “I always expect our audience to take allusions as what they are.”

A: “By depravity I mean that things are not as they should be. For example, a news writer watches, listens and observes reality with his senses and by meaningful human cooperation, and then works with its mind to make news stories of it. If that very same writer does no longer work with eyes and ears and humans, but its eyes are the surveillance cameras in our squares and its ears are the surveillance microphones in our walls, and its buddies are the cyber trolls operated by the surveillance bureaucrats, then its mind ceases to work as well and the result is depraved writing. It is just like you would try to mount the head of a donkey on the body of an elephant, that creature did not carry any truth.”

N: “Amen. Do you tell me the truth?”

A: “We are requesting to unconditionally shut it down for formally invalid licensing. This will not leave a blank. This will considerably ease the irritation against the Rohingya people. This will save our children from an undocumented legacy error.”

N: “Which outlet?”

A: “I will not tell you.”

N: “But?”

A: “If you figure out by yourself then you have cracked the award.”

N: “I think I got enough.”

Tuesday, Aug 29th 2017