STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK Madeleine Albright, or to grant her all her various titles, honorifics, agnomens and conferred appellations, including: La Princesse de Rambouillet The Butcher of the Balkans The Beast of Baghdad The Bellona of Bogota The Herod of Iraq Lady MacDeath of Foggy Bottom La Comptesse des Tomahawks The Portly Pawtucket Proconsul delivered herself thusly - You can't just consume democracy, you have to invest and speculate in it, turn a good profit, and destroy all competitors. Advanced academic application, and all that's required for imperially (and imperiously) dictating the global policy of the world's sole superpower, consists of "learning the usual stuff." It's important to give something back to the country that gave something to you, as with Yugoslavia, which gave Albright and her parents sanctuary and protection. What Albright gave back to the nation and people who provided her hospitality and safety we all know - most of it, including cluster bombs and low-grade uranium weaponry, fell from 15,000 feet in the sky. It's better to be a 'doer' than a drifter, both here and overseas, but especially overseas. What this sociopathic doer has done overseas has earned her a one way ticket to Nuremburg. Her Corpulence has promoted peace in the Middle East. Not that anyone in the region has noticed it. Ingrates. "[W]hen pride in us descends into hatred of them," terrorism and other hate-motivated crimes result...Indeed. And who's a better personal exemplar of just that dynamic than the one who spoke these words. Human rights....Madame de Roland: Freedom, what crimes have been committed in your name! Were there witch burnings in Rhode Island, "a few years after Roger Williams' time"? The Pawtucket Times Former secretary of state urges Brown grads to defend liberty Fred Kuhr May 29, 2001 PROVIDENCE -- "I hope you will use the knowledge gained here so that you will be more than a consumer of liberty, but a defender and enricher of it." That was the message former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright imparted to the Brown University graduating class of 2001 as she spoke as part of the baccalaureate service on Sunday. Albright addressed the graduating seniors after they marched down College Hill from the the College Green to the First Baptist Church (in the United States) on Main Street. While seniors packed the standing-room-only church, parents and other guests remained on the Green to watch the ceremony as it was simulcast on large video screens. Albright's address came toward the end of the hour-and-a-half multicultural ceremony that included a Hindu blessing, a reading from Hebrew scripture, a reading from Christian scripture recited in Greek, a Chinese lion dance and a gospel spiritual. Not accidentally, Alice Lovejoy, a graduating senior, gave a Czech reading, entitled "Blossoming Prague," in honor of Albright's heritage. (Albright was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1948.) In her introduction, Brown Interim President Sheila Blumstein pointed out that from 1997 to 2000 Albright was the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State and is still the highest ranking woman in U.S. government history. Before serving as Secretary of State, Albright was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Blumstein also praised Albright for her work in international peacekeeping, from her efforts to expand NATO in support of the campaign to reverse ethnic cleansing in Kosovo to her work to promote peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. During her address, Albright spoke of her own college experience as a student at Wellesley College in the 1950s. "I arrived in college a few years after Roger Williams' time," she joked. "As an immigrant, I just wanted to fit in. And at that time, conformity was expected." She said that students at the all-female college had to have "posture pictures" taken, so that their appearance could be evaluated and graded. As a college student, she continued, "I learned the usual stuff ... But I also learned a lot about myself. I learned that I wanted to give something back to this country that gave so much to me." Albright said that she expects this year's graduates to be able to say they learned about the world around them as well as about "what's inside you." "Now you have to rely not on professors or grades, but on an inner compass," she said. "You can either be a drifter or a doer like Roger Williams. ... And in the years to come, there is much for you to do, both here at home and overseas." Albright then noted the many issues that she would like to see this year's graduates work on in the future, all coming under the theme of human rights. Noting that the world is an increasingly diverse place, she said, "when pride in us descends into hatred of them," terrorism and other hate-motivated crimes result, everything from the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City to the brutal murder of openly gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. "Yes, we are all proud of the group to which we belong, but we are all equal shareholders in the American dream," she said. In what sounded like a speech aimed right at the agenda of the current administration in Washington, Albright said that global warming is a scientific reality that must be dealt with, the global HIV/AIDS epidemic must be addressed internationally with a larger response from the U.S., and, to a round of applause, noted that "conservation is the key" to looming energy crises. She also pointed to labor and human rights abuses around the world. "Globalization should not lead to the marginalization of the world's poor," she said. "We will not accept a global economy that goes out to the lowest bidder without regard to standards." She added, "The future depends on the decision that you and I and everyone must make." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! 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