Where Deaf People Sing

Alf Whitmore has been hired to follow a man who sells explosives to terrorists. In Alaska and China he witnesses action often inept and pointless. Then he goes to Nepal... where the point, for Nepalese, is revolution. The Nepali government is stinking of high-caste privilege... as it rules masses who can't vote, own property, or be hired for jobs beyond those assigned to their caste. Also... for those in the mud... formal education is brief, and sometimes consists mainly of learning...
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Alf Whitmore has been hired to follow a man who sells explosives to terrorists. In Alaska and China he witnesses action often inept and pointless. Then he goes to Nepal... where the point, for Nepalese, is revolution. The Nepali government is stinking of high-caste privilege... as it rules masses who can't vote, own property, or be hired for jobs beyond those assigned to their caste. Also... for those in the mud... formal education is brief, and sometimes consists mainly of learning how to accept being spit at. There is writing on the walls: "Down with the King!". "Down with the Hindu System!" Enter George Bush... to give money and guns to the corrupt government... most of it going to the opulent King, who controls the military. *** After long oppression begins the fight for equality. The oppressor becomes brutal. Some revolutionaries match the brutality... to be rid of it. The world calls you terrorist and gives money and guns to the oppressor. You laugh and cry at the same time. You try to love what you hate. And, with the dignity of existence... you remain willing to fight for freedom... against all odds.