記得十月初,pinter 剛被通知得獎時說,他認為他的得獎,諾貝爾獎委員會必然也同時考量了他的政治活動,因為他說他的作品無法與這些活動切割.

pinter 正在住院,所以這個領獎演說是事先錄好,請一位出版商代他領獎. bbc 剛剛有篇報導,引用了pinter 的演講詞.

pinter譴責布希和布萊爾為推動戰爭,滿口謊言,他認為應當把這兩人以戰爭罪犯罪名移送 icc (icc 就是美國全力抵制的 "國際刑事法庭"),這事實上也是 pinter 的一貫態度.

他說,大部份政治人物並不是對真理,而是對權力感興趣. 為了維持權力,於是不斷說謊,說了一卡車的謊言,政客希望人們繼續保持無知,保持對真理的無知,甚至對生命的真相都漠不關心.

pinter並細數二次大戰以來,美國支持了幾乎每一個右翼軍事獨裁政權. 不僅支持,並且大多數狀況下,正是美國培植出這些政權,包括印尼,巴西,海地,土耳其,菲律賓,瓜地馬拉,薩爾瓦多,智利,希臘...(列出了一長串,但 pinter 沒能列完整,因為等他列完,45分鐘演講時間恐怕得延長一倍.) pinter 說,所有這些惡行,卻以一種追求普世善行,拯救世人的面貌出現.

大概就是說這些.

陳真2005. 12. 7.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4505874.stm

Bush and Blair slated by Pinter

Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 17:54 GMT

Pinter is outspoken critic of the UK and US governments George W Bush and Tony Blair must be held to account for feeding the public "a vast tapestry of lies" about the Iraq war, writer Harold Pinter said.

The playwright launched a scathing attack on US and UK politicians in his lecture as winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.

Most politicians "are interested not in truth but in power and the maintenance of that power", the 75-year-old said.

His speech was pre-recorded as Pinter was admitted to hospital this week.

'Live in ignorance'

Pinter, 75, whose plays include The Birthday Party and Betrayal, was announced the winner of the $1.3m (£740,000) cash prize in October.

On Wednesday his lecture, entitled Art, Truth and Politics, studied the importance of truth in art before decrying its perceived absence in politics.

He said politicians feel it is "essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives".

Pinter said the US justification for invading Iraq - that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction - "was not true".

(America) has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good

Harold Pinter

"The truth is something entirely different," Pinter added. "The truth is to do with how the United States understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it."

Pinter said that since World War II the US government "supported and in many cases engendered every right-wing military dictatorship in the world".

"I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador and, of course, Chile."

'Bleating lamb'

He added: "You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good."

Referring to Blair's support for the US-led war on Iraq, Pinter described the "pathetic and supine" Great Britain as "a bleating little lamb tagging behind (the US) on a lead".

He called for President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to be "arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice".

"But Bush has been clever," Pinter said. "He has not ratified the International Criminal Court of Justice."

Nevertheless he added that "thousands, if not millions" of people in the US were "sickened, shamed and angered" by their government's actions.

"As things stand they are not a coherent political force - yet."

Publisher Stephen Page will accept the Nobel Prize for Literature on Pinter's behalf on Saturday.