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July 24, 2006
Irony alert!
Nobel Peace Prize winner announces she'd like to kill Pres. Bush.
NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.
Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues forum, being held in Brisbane, Ms Williams spoke passionately about the deaths of innocent children during wartime, particularly in the Middle East, and lambasted Mr Bush.
"I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Ms Williams, 64.
"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.
"I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life."
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[T]he former office receptionist heads the World Centres of Compassion for Children International, a non-profit group working to create a political voice for children.
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Wrapping up the three-day forum yesterday, delegates agreed to a 26-point action plan.
"There can be no sustainable peace while the majority of the world's population lives in poverty," they said.
"There can be no sustainable peace if we fail to rise to the global challenge presented by climate change.
"There can be no sustainable peace while military spending takes precedence over human development."
Perfect. A pacifist who advocates murdering those with whom she disagrees.
The mind reels.
Posted by Mike Lief at July 24, 2006 08:32 AM
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Comments
Where was she when Sadam Hussein was killing innocents?
Is she going to protest the North Korean dictator for starving his people? Is she going to lambast Hezbolla for bombing Isreal?
Nope.
I don't know why she got a Nobel Peace Prize either.
Posted by: jim at July 25, 2006 08:53 AM
Unreal. What a loon.
Someone needs to start a group that revokes Peace Prize bobbles from winners who endorse killing.
Posted by: Vermont Neighbor at August 2, 2006 08:50 AM