Nobel Prize for Communism

Harold Pinter accepted his Nobel Prize yesterday for his lifetime achievement in Literture. He used the oppurtunity not to reflect on his works and lifetime but to launch into American Foreign Policy over the past 50 years and especially condemn the invasion of Iraq.

But is Pinter really a saint able to preach to the world about the correct order?

He is a supporter of the Cuban Solidarity Campaign and the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic.

He supports two of the worst tyrants of the past 50 years.

He demands that a man charged with two counts of Genocide by the UN, who oversaw the worst atrocities in Europe since the end of the Second World War, should be free. If he had his way Milosevic would still be in power in Yugoslavia along with his Generals.

And he also supports Fidel Castro's dictatorship in Cuba where tens of thousands of politcal opponents have been reported murdered during Castro's leadership. Those labelled 'counter-revolutionaries' are imprisoned without trial or in some cases summarily executed.

If there is anyone to condemn it should be Pinter.