Friday, November 11, 2011. Your Opinions and Comments Always Count and Impact Everywhere
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Instead Ayok only “… witnessed a disappointing social episode.” He claimed the wedding “was found disgusting and denounced by many patriotic South Sudanese across the country.” Why so disgusted? Was the man a pariah of epic proportions? A war criminal, perhaps? Nope. She married a “foreigner." It turns out the groom is a political refugee from Ethiopia. So there you have it: Xenophobia in the first portion of the sentence, followed by creepy patriarchal rhetoric about how long a daughter may stay with her father (never mind later stuff about the editor’s bafflement about why this father permitted his daughter to marry an alien and a stranger). After sounding like he was sort of parodying a combination of Albert Camus, the Tea Party, and maybe an Indian Uncle best left behind in another era, Ayok concluded by stating that “because Kiir is a patriotic leader that fought two wars for the well-being of his people,” he is a “valued and highly respected by South Sudanese.” The deputy editor is a xenophobe, a male chauvinist and a sexist, but we should all fight for his press freedom now. Like we should. We have a question for the president’s office: don’t they know about Lindsey Lohan’s PR team? People. Just hire a good publicist and a writer. How much better a response would it have been if the President and his daughter (and perhaps the husband, too) wrote a letter to be published in the same paper –clarifying the joy of being the daughter of a father who fully supports her ability to make strong, healthy, autonomous decisions, and being a part of a new nation that welcomes all–in marriage and otherwise. They would have looked like beacons of family love and national unity, and the deputy editor a gibbering idiot. Neelika Jayawardane, USA Never an advocate of Bor Manyok Chuol, you are a hero in all your responses to the so-called Kuir e Garang who has been indulging in journalism rather than quoting the facts. You've shown us in your responses by far that you are ahead of Kuir e Garang who purporting to be a journalist. Manyok, you quoted true intentions, statements, observation, etc, from insiders of the Nasir Factions. True writers and journalists are supposed to write things exactly the way they occur. No journalist can attempt to conceal the true scenario of the atrocities by appeasing the culprits and hurting the victims' feeling in the notion of bringing reconciliation and development to South Sudanese. Kuir e Garang, I would like to tell you as one of your colleagues that you do not deserve to promise writing any history about the struggle of the SPLM/A. Just write the history of Nasir faction, SIM/A, and Anyanya two Movement. You are their sympathizer which is fine. You have no sense of humanity toward our people (greater Bor, Padang, the lynched officers of the SPLA/M. Dinka Bor has never approached and asked you to be their advocate for reconciliation or development promoter. You are just good as a poet. period! Mangoor, USA Kiir's time soon up Mr. Okuk release is been a good news and I want to wish him the best. I want to inform any South Sudanese people that our government will not be ours until it works for the well being of our people in South Sudan. I know there are people in that government who can make change but they need to have the courage to let the change happen. Mr. Kiir, please stand up and do good in your life time, also know your time will finish soon. Chol Giel, Australia United we stand, divided we fall South Sudan belongs to all tribes, but we should be united as one NATION and one PEOPLE. Two million lost their lives for the betterment of our Nation. Freedom is our only gift from our GOD/NHIALIC, DON'T be blindfolded by barbaric politicians who always bring hatred amongst the community, let us build our nation, not war of words from uncivilized politicians who never think about tomorrow and the future of the next generation in REPUBLIC OF SOUTHERN SUDAN (RSS) BY ATEM APIOTH ATEM, Australia Protection of president and nation I would like to take the time to say thank you to the writer of this article (Marriage or intelligence failure). As a fellow South Sudanese and a Dinka myself, this marriage should never have happened this way or even got to the point it did without the regards of the general public in south Sudan. But I am in complete agreement with you about the protection of our president and all the valuable information that make this young nation stand on her feet. No people are strong without a leader and no leader can stand without a people to lead. Therefore, it is with great honor that I speak to secure the president and his family. We as southerners must train men and women in the ways of security and protection for the people as a nation and mostly for our leaders. Thanks again for writing this article, it indeed served as an eye opener for me being so far away from home at the current moment. James D. Smith, USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob?hl=en.
