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| Diwas Khati | Posted
on 12-May-01 04:21 AM
Dear Readers, Here is another instance of copy-edit-paste (aka plagiarism) in The Kathmandu Post of Kathmandu Saturday May 12, 2001 Baishakh 29, 2058, in the Editorial section. If you (the reader) are located in Ktm, maybe you could bring this to the attn of TKP ppl. ps. This whole thing is pretty long.. but a good read nonetheless..-dk Here is the detail: 1. Article for the above mentioned date and section by Kuldip Karki I don’t hate him, but........ ----------------------------- By Kuldip Karki I don’t hate him. I despise his behaviour and can’t stand his attitude. I find his practices disgusting, and I live in the terror of the future. I think he is a horrible man, a horrible individual, and I can’t think of a single detail of his life that is not repellent to me. But I don’t hate him. I wouldn’t cross the street to push him out of the path of a bus. ...... snipped for space.. go to url for whole article ....... We want him out. Not for the doubtful aircraft deal, not for lying about it, not for pressuring others to lie about it. Not for the numerous treacherous deals, not for treason, not for any of the other hundreds of crimes the man has committed. We want him out to cleanse the nation of a disgusting evil. Not the evil of the man, although he is certainly an evil man. But the evil, he represents, the evil ideal that a warm and soft lie can overpower the truth that a scheming corruption can never triumph over honour. Honour lives when human beings say: "The truth is worth more than my comfort, more than my advantage, more than esteem or fellowship. The truth is worth more than my position, more than my prospects, more than my reputation. The truth is worth more than my life." Honour lives when we live by it. And as long as we can plant its seed in our children, it can never perish. There is nothing like a parasite like him can do to change that! 2. Here is a very similar article at url http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a699d7a771e.htm The original author info at that URL for this posting is" Source: http://www.primenet.com/~gswann/ Published: Jan. 20, 2001 Author: Greg Swann Posted on 01/20/2001 06:15:22 PST by Greg Swann HATING CLINTON -------------- I don't hate Bill Clinton. I despise his behavior and I loathe his policies. I find his practices abhorrent, and I live in terror of the Robespierres and Rasputins he surrounds himself with--starting with his wife. I think he's a horrible man, a horrible father, and I can't think of a single detail of his life that is not repellent to me. But I don't hate him. I wouldn't cross the street to push him out of the path of a bus, but I wouldn't cross the street to spit on his grave, either. Hating is childish, for one thing, an activity appropriate only to people age nine and younger. And hating is entirely too much work. But worst of all, hating Bill Clinton would accord him much more respect than he deserves. Bill Clinton is a bug, a disease, a virus. Bill Clinton is literally a louse, a parasite of virtually no consequence, and he deserves no more attention than it takes to get him out of one's hair. But I am a "Clinton hater" as that term is used by the ever-more-irrelevant popular media. I care about what is to them an indiscernible, indecipherable, indescribable something more than I care about mooing in harmony with the herd. And since they can't figure me out and they can't shout me down, I must be a "hater". Karl Marx said, "You can't refute a sneer." The so-very-modern boob-tube blatherers go that one better: "You can't refute a pseudo-psychological diagnosis." .... snipped for space .. click here for whole article .... And those who are convinced that his popularity represents a fundamental change in the American culture--from a country of facts and reason to just another easily-swayed third-world mobocracy--are the "Clinton haters". We want him out. Not for masturbating in the Oval Office, not for lying about it, not for pressuring others to lie about it. Not for campaign finance law violations, not for treason with the Red Chinese, not for any of the other hundreds of crimes the man has committed. We want him out to cleanse the nation of a loathsome evil. Not the evil of the man, although he is certainly an evil man. But the evil he represents, the evil idea that a warm and downy lie can smother the truth, that a calculating corruption can ever triumph over honor. This can never happen, of course. Evil is impotent. Vice cannot steal what virtue has not first created. Honor can never die and corruption can never triumph. Clinton's fate is already sealed, irrespective of any votes or polls, sealed in history and seared into his own rancid soul. Honor lives when any human being says, "The truth is worth more than my comfort, more than my advantage, more than esteem or fellowship or emoluments. The truth is worth more than my station, more than my prospects, more than my reputation. The truth is worth more than my life, more than an empty life knowing how much I would have betrayed." Honor lives when we live by it. And as long as we can plant its seed in our children, it can never perish. There is nothing that a louse like Bill Clinton can do to change that. ------------------ If anyone could get me a good email addr for TKP ko responsible person, I would really appreciate it...-dk |
| sparsha | Posted
on 12-May-01 09:55 AM
Diwas, Thanks for bringing up yet another nepali "talent's talent" to our attention. How disgusting is such act, I have no words to explain. Those that are in Nepal and know people at KTM Post probably did draw attn. to the earlier incident by Binay G. and still the same incident is repeated. If Kuldip Karki can't write in his own English then why in the world is he trying write in English? If he really wants to copy others what stops him to credit those who he imitates? How would greg Swann think of Nepali journalism if he comes across this incident? sparsha |
| Trailokya Aryal | Posted
on 13-May-01 08:00 PM
Namaste, kasto naramro kuro. At least karkiji should have given enough credit to Greg Swann(Sp..??). Its not naramro kura to get inspirations from other people's work, but it is dherai dherai naramro to not to quote the source(s). Trailokya |