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www.tenc.net Please send this link to a friend. You may post any TENC article on the internet as long as you credit TENC and the author(s). http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/moj.htm Subscribe to the TENC Newsletter – Receive articles from Emperor's Clothes. To join, send a blank email to: join-emperorsclothes@pr2.netatlantic.com You should immediately receive a confirmation email. (If you do not receive it right away, please check your spam filter!) Reply, and you are subscribed. Then please put emperorsclothes@tenc.net in your personal address book so you will receive the newsletter. Our readers make TENC possible. Please donate! ================================================= "The Protocols of Zion" set to music:Two English translations of Croatian rock star Thompson's "Alas my people"/"E moj narode," with commentary The Emperor's Clothes translation, by Tika Jankovic and other Serbo-Croatian speakers, is juxtaposed to the translation from the website of author Marko Perkovic 'Thompson' website Comments by Jared Israel, Editor, Emperor's Clothes [Posted November 16, 2007, Revised December 15, 2007] ================================================= Those defending Marko Perkovic Thompson, whether high officials in the Catholic church in the US and Croatia or anonymous Internet posters, routinely tell those attacking his concerts: show us what's wrong with his lyrics. I did a study of Thompson's songs, based on which I determined that one of his top hits - perhaps his #1 hit - is "E moj narode," pronounced 'e' as in 'he', 'moy naroda,' with 'naroda' ryhming with 'soda.' It is the title song of two of his last five albums. Although released in 2002, it was the name given to his 2005 Australian concert tour. Judging by youtube videos, he sang it on each stop in his recent US-Canadian concert tour. Below is the Emperor's Clothes English translation. Following each stanza I have posted the translation from Thompson's website. (The Thompson translations are indented in italics.) ========================= Notes to help understand the lyrics ========================= In the first two stanzas, Thompson charges that "Antichrists and Masons" and "Communists of all sorts" have, since the time of Jesus, been trying "to eliminate us," or, as the Thompson website literally translates the Serbo-Croatian phrase "da nas ne bude," "that we not exist." So: a struggle over the very existence - but of whom? Since Thompson presents himself as a messenger of the Catholic church militant (for confirmation, see picture-essay) "us" means Catholic Croats and by extension, Catholics in general. "Antichrists and Masons" is Nazi-speak for 'Jews and their [supposed] tools.' As for "Communists of all sorts," the "of all sorts" makes no sense unless one understands that for Thompson, a Communist could be any of the following: anyone who advocates ordinary liberal policies, for example the separation of the Catholic church and the state; anyone who condemns the Croatian clerical-fascist Ustashe, even if the condemnation is greatly understated; anyone who criticizes the US and German-sponsored Croatian military assault that emptied the Krajina region, between Croatia and Bosnia, of over 250,000 Serbs; anyone who advocates restitution and repatriation for hundreds of thousands of Serbs driven from this and other Croatian-controlled territory, or who advocates basic rights for Serbs now living under Croatian control; and on and on. -- Jared Israel *** ========================= Lyrics of "Alas my people" or, as the Thompson website translates it, "My people" The Thompson website translation is at http://tinyurl.com/295m43 ========================= Ever since the time of Christ,
Antichrists and Masons,
And we, deaf, mute, blind,
As our glorious past history,
Let’s take into our hands destiny and fortune
Generations of the brave,
From the heights of Heaven,
Let's take take our fate and fortune into our own
hands!
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