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...confronted opposition to his Western-inculcated ideas. "I was so overwhelmed," Eros says, "that a doctor advised me to lie down for three months and not say or do anything." By 1986 he had been up and around enough to make a critically acclaimed feature film, Tjoet Nya' Dhien, about an Indonesian woman who led an armed rebellion against the colonial Dutch in the late 19th century. Shortly thereafter Eros started up DeTik with a ragtag crew of 16 volunteers. Using the name of a defunct crime tabloid, Eros published his first commercial issue...
...other hand, Clinton, Jerry Brown, Pat Buchanan and other political pros had read his book" and drawn on its theses." Nyanya-nya, in other words...
...Indeed, the nation has been torn by civil war in one form or another ever since it began preparing for independence from Britain and Egypt in 1955. That year a band of southerners took up arms to fight for secession from Khartoum. In the 17 years that the Anya Nya I (Snake Venom) movement was active, more than 500,000 died. In 1975 the rebel cause turned into Anya Nya II, and in 1983 it splintered further into the SPLA. As their leader, the SPLA members chose Garang, a former lieutenant colonel in the Sudanese army whose academic skills...
...good." He goes on to reason that if the government won't enforce the law, then the people "not only have the right but the obligation to enforce the law themselves!" This vigilante mentality rejects efforts to work with the courts, as many moderate conservatives are attempting; the courts, NYA declares, "are PACKED with liberal judges" who are assumed to be unwilling or unable to deal with the evil in our society...
...NYA is symptomatic of a reactionary element in America, young and old. How much it will be fed by public reaction to radical leftist violence remains to be seen, but the potential is there and it is dangerous...