Various News Pieces With References to Humiliation
Dear HumanDHS Friends!
Words play out in our daily use of them. What follows are a number of news stories that reference “humiliation”. The first one is an editorial that disturbingly enough calls for the public humiliation of bad drivers. This for me is an example of how “benign” such ideas can seem to be but also how insidious they are.
Brian Lynch
ARTICLE: Victoria Tang
You Can’t Drive—Dot-Com
Thursday, May, 24th, 2007
Everyone thinks they’re a good driver. Especially the bad drivers. You probably can’t count the number of times this pops into your mind when you have to get from point A to point B by car. There are just so many of them. The overly cautious ones who think the speed limit should never be reached and insist on driving 10 miles per hour slower. The distracted ones who don’t realize the light’s turned green, leaving you stuck behind them for the next 15 seconds reading about how their kid made the honor roll and how they voted in the ’04 election from their bumper sticker collection. And, my personal favorite, the capricious ones who zigzag in and out of traffic, oblivious to the purpose of the dashed white lines on the asphalt…
http://www.dailycal.org/column.php?id=25113
COMMENT by Brian Lynch: Once again tales of childhood trauma that draw a straight line to present problems.
ARTICLE: Coach’s Diary: Beat the Bullies
Olivia Stefanino’s client revisits some difficult childhood memories to make sense of his current problems. Simon admitted that he had always been an underachiever. Fidgeting nervously, he told me that also had problems with completing tasks – indeed he constantly found that he missed deadlines and let down his colleagues and clients…
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=168509&d=680&h=608&f=626&dateformat=%25e-%25h-%25y
COMMENT by Brian Lynch: And once again street violence due to inflicted and perceived humiliation.
ARTICLE: Prosecutor says murder suspect was avenging earlier humiliation
The Journal News / Lohud.com - Westchester, NY, USA
By BILL HUGHES. WHITE PLAINS - “Omar Washington didn’t want to be a punk,” Assistant District Attorney John O’Rourke told jurors yesterday at the opening of…
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070524/NEWS02/705240371/1023/NEWS07
COMMENT by Brian Lynch: This case of a man being asked to remove his turban certainly brings up many issues of conflict amongst institutions, individuals and security issues. Is this at base a case of the security agent having a personality problem?
ARTICLE: “I was told to remove turban at Buffalo airport for security check”, blames US NRI Gurinder Singh
Punjab Newsline Network
Thursday, 10 May 2007
SACRAMENTO(USA): Gurinder Singh a resident of Sacramento in USA a green card holder Sikh who allegedly faced humilation in the hands of TSA security and US police officials said he was asked to take off the turban for security clearance at the Buffalo airport…
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/4076/38/
COMMENT by Brian Lynch: The term “Humiliation” has been used a great deal in the last weeks in terms of the Palestinian question.
Several examples follow.
ARTICLE: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during their meeting in Jerusalem early last week (archives)
ARTICLE: Rice: Palestinians should live free of ‘humilation of occupation’
By The Associated Press
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that Palestinians deserve to live under better conditions than they are subjected to and be “free of the humiliation of occupation” in a state of their own…