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Time names ‘Protester’ person of the year

Published: 14 December, 2011, 17:28

Time names ‘Protester’ person of the year

Time names ‘Protester’ person of the year

TAGS: Protest, Mass media, USA


The prominent American magazine Time has named “The Protester” as the most influential person in 2011 to praise the protester's triumphant return as the “maker of history.”

­Starting in Tunisia and growing into the Arab Spring, putting on fire the USA, Europe and – in December – Russia, protests seem to have regained their political might. But in 2011, demonstrations not only voiced complaints – they changed the world.

‘Massive and effective street protest’ was a global oxymoron until — suddenly, shockingly — starting exactly a year ago, it became the defining trope of our times. And the protester once again became a maker of history,” says the Time.

While the final choice on the Person of the Year was made by the managing editor of the magazine, Richard Stengel, the voters picked Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as their favourite in the readers' poll. Ergodan is seen by many as a leader of democracy in the Arab world. Still, his 122,939 admirers were opposed by 180,571 others who cast their votes against the Turkish PM in Time's "No" rating.

The candidates put forward for the title in 2011 included various politicians (Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy), businessmen (Apple founder Steve Jobs, media magnate Rupert Murdoch), and also the hacking group Anonymous and the American anti-bank movement "Occupy Wall Street" dubbed as “The 99%.”

The Person of the Year issue by Time names a person or a group that "for better or for worse, … has done the most to influence the events of the year." In 2010, the title was given to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social network Facebook. Other recent Persons of the Year were named as US President Barack Obama (2008), Russia’s PM Vladimir Putin (2007, President at that time), and in 2006, “You.”

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jack Thompson December 20, 2011, 08:04
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Yet, this is not enough for them. Clearly, the western/U.S. camp still believes that they can still call all the shots, but they must realise that this is not the right thing to do, which has led to tragic results in recent times, from Iraq (Funny the west used to support Saddam, it seems he was a convenient enemy), Afghanistan, Libya (I am disgusted with what has happened in Libya, especially. I hate how everyone thinks Gaddafi is a dictator, when he's not! He is not part of the government, he is an honorary brotherly leader, an advisor of sorts, so to speak. Does anyone even know the accomplishments that Gaddafi did for his people, like the Great Manmade River project he embarked on, which was his idea, during his time, that allowed Libya to grow food from the desert, get water, and all? How about that free electricity he gave to his people, help out in starting families, getting a house, a car, free education and health care? The media never tells you that! Does anyone know that, on February 15th, those so-called protestors were committing criminal acts, and the west calls that "freedom and democracy"?! How could they do that to Gaddafi, those capitalist rebels? Don't those people even know what that King Idris has done for Libya?), etc. At least they have, thus far, failed to destroy Syria, Iran, Russia, and the others. Their time will come, their decline is inevitable, and hopefully it'll come soon, for the rest of the world's sake. Russia, China, India, Brazil, and the rest of the other half of the world will prevail, and finally defeat the west soon. The western world will pay & answer for all of their crimes that they have done. I know not all westerners are like that, and I understand that, but in these times, and before, one has to wonder, whose fault is this? Who allowed these people to ransack the world in the 1st place?If you all really want to stop your western governments from doing these criminal acts, can you please do more than just "occupy"?

Jack Thompson December 20, 2011, 07:52
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In-fact, let's make a small nut-shell summary of U.S./western conduct that it has conducted aginst the rest of the world. I mean, look what the U.S. & the west did to the world in the past. They saw Russia (When it was the great Soviet Union) as an enemy, and wanted to confront them simply because they don't subscribe to the west. The U.S./West continues to treat the people & countries of Africa as third-class world citizens, just like during colonialism, and still do so as neo-colonialism. The killing of Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, U.N. secretary general Dag Hammarskjold, among countless many other victims (who knows how many), supporting criminal regimes like Pinochet, Mobutu, Ferdinand Marcos, Idi Amin, Suharto, Nguyen Van Thieu during the Vietnam war, etc. It even supported Iran at one point, when the Shah used to be in power. They even offered them, at one point, nuclear power and fuel! This was before the Iranian revolution in 1979. Yet, this is a small sample of the many crimes the west has committed against the peoples of the world, as well as the hypocrisies & double standards they continue to perpetrate. Can we continue to go on, knowing all this?

Jack Thompson December 20, 2011, 07:49
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Heh, person of the year is "protestors"? Meh, I don't believe talk about these so-called "protestors" the way they are glorified in the media. All of what went on this year was, no doubt, directed at Russia, China, independent-minded countries that do not subscribe & bow down before the west, and countries which have, time after time, so far refused to recognise Kosovo. Western mentality says: when all else fails, fund terrorists and destroy all the independent and free world governments that don't follow and do what the western capitalists/corporatists, like Murdoch or Soros, tell them to do. History has recorded the crimes of the west, and we know what they did.