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How linguistics is used to control ethnic separatists and terrorists

by Muriel Mirak

The Sept. 20 issue ofEIR contained portions of a new dossier poetic expression of universal ideas, that the individual on the Nazi-Communist controllers of both the "peace move­ brought up speaking a native dialect can develop his mind to ment" and ethnic separatism in Europe. The following arti­ contribute ideas of universal importance to his fellow man. cle, part of the EIR Special Report titled "The Hot Autumn: That mankind has proven capable of creating great literary Separatism, Pacifism, and Terrorism," analyzes the way tools has been the prerequisite for science, and thereby for separatist terrorists are manufactured through the promotion the continued progress of human society. of ethnic dialects, by "linguists" who are nothing other than Destroy national languages, and the progress of human ' brainwashing experts. The report is now available from EIR thinking, technology. and science, is destroyed. That is the at $250. ultimate policy objective of the separatist linguisticians. They have expended massive efforts on cultivating local and re­ Why do the separatists insist so fanatically on the right to gional dialects, under the guise of protecting threatened lan­ speak a local dialect, often known to only a few thousand guages, and have lobbied to gain legislative equality vis-a­ souls, rather than maintain the communicative means afford­ vis the national tongue, as the first step toward outright au­ ed by a national language? Such insistence is not only a tonomy. By fostering the use of such parochialized and lim­ further indication of the intellectual backwardness of sepa­ ited dialects, they have effectively condemned entire popu­ ratist leaders such as Aureli Argemi and Ivan Illich; it also lations to backwardness. Among the leadership strata of sep­ identifies a conscious plan to subvert. the integrity of the aratist organizations, local dialects are used as veritable nation-state, through the destruction of its language. brainwashing programs, to maintain top-down cQntrol over Dante Alighieri was the father of the Italian language, hard-core terrorist components. and as such, the spiritual father of the unity of Italians in the The importance of linguistics for separatismis underlined Italian nation. His explicit aim, through his poem the Com­ by the fact that Barcelona's Ciemen center for ethnic minor­ media, as well as his groundbreaking theoretical treatises on ities, on the initiative of Benedictine leader Argemi, will language (De Vulgari Eloquentia. Il Convivio), was to over­ dedicate its next annual conference to "Semiotics and Social come the state of isolation and backwardness imposed by the Language" (Aug. 16-22,1984). continuing existence of thousands of regional and local dia­ It should come as no surprise that the think tanks dedi­ lects along the 13th-century peninsula. He knew that there cated to spreading dialect use are integrally connected to

would be no hope for Italians to create a nation if they were I those running separatism and terrorism. Under the overall straitjacketed by dialects shaped by brutish sounds, like the control of the United Nations' UNESCO,which has financed "sad speech" of the Romans, the "ugliest of all Italian ver­ and staffed studies of local dialects (even of tiny communi­ naculars," or the Sardinian dialect, which "imitates Latin, ties, like the 700-person Occitanian-speaking region of Cal­ just as monkeys imitate men," or the Genoese, whose sound abria!), the major associations involved are the Ciemen and system offends the ear. Dante sought to develop the illus­ the Gesellschaft fUr bedrohte V 6lker (Society for Threatened trious vernacular, Italian, as the national language which Peoples, GfBV),as well as the Association for the Defense "appears in every city but rests in none," that is, which is of Threatened Tongues. The principal areas of activity of common to every local area but limited to no single one. It is Ciemen are the dialects of France, Spain, and Italy. In addi­ only through such a language, polished and ordered through tion to Ciemen secretary Aureli Argemi's personal linguistic

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© 1983 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. studies on Corsican-Genoese and Sardinian,Ciemen concen­ a Catalan separatist collaborating with the Academia, is the trates on the Occitanian dialects, on the Basque (Euskera), author of numerous pro-terrorist articles published in the and on Venetian. Basque paper EGIN, which supports the terrorist ETA. In Milan, Italy, Ciemen shares its offices with the maga­ Several of the directors of EGIN have been called upon zine Etnie, whose founders include Roberto Sonaglia, a par­ to testify in ETA murder cases and have been fined by the tisan of the Movimento Federale Padano, and Guido Aghina. interior ministry. Federico Krutwig, who has presided over Aghina is the city councilman responsible for cultural affairs the Academia, is also reportedly linked to ETA assassins in in Milan for the Italian Socialist Party, whose links with Paris and Brussels.. The case of Krutwig is particularly sig­ terrorism have been amply documented. nificant. Son of the representative of Krupp in the Basque, Jesuit linguistic ian Ivan Illich's Center for Intercultural Krutwig is said to be fluent in most WesternEuropean, Mid­ Documentation (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, which dle Eastern,and Slavic languages. In 1942 he was elected to works with the Ciemen networks through the GfBV and the the Academia de la Lengua Vasca, but was forced into exile Club of Rome, is dedicated to undermining national lan­ in 1953. At the World Basque Congress of 1956, it was guages in the North and South American continents, pro­ Krutwig who pushed for the creation of a guerrilla movement moting the revival of Indian dialects. Illich takes his attack to fightfor autonomy. In 1965 he traveled to Brussels,where against Spanish to extreme lengths, targetting Elio Antonio he worked for the Chinese Embassy, translating the texts of de Nebrija, the 15th-century humanist collaborator of Eras­ Mao Tse-tung into Euskera. In exchange, the Chinese For­ mus, who circulated the first Spanish grammar among the eign Language Institute of Peking translated his books on the dominions of Queen Isabella. Illich attempts to destroy first Basque question. Krutwigis a close associate of ErnestMan­ the national language, then all language. His claim is that in del, the leader of the Trotskyist Fourth International; both the medieval world, to which he and the Club of Rome want were linked to top Spanish terrorist Jose Maria Escubi. to return,languages are unnecessary. "In the essentially sun­ Linguistics is deeply rooted in ETA's history. One of the powered cultures of the past, there was no need for language group's co-founders was Alvarez Emparanza (code name production. Language : .. was learned from the encounter Gxillardegui),a linguist who wrote in Euskera. It was he who with people whom the learner could smell and touch, love or succeeded in 1965-66 in convincing the Bishopric of San hate." Sebastian to ordain priests only if they knew the Euskera language. In June 1965 he wrote a letter to ETA stressing the Basque: language for feudal backwardness importance of language in the separatist struggle,saying that Basque separatism actually began with a language project those who could not speak Basque should be cast aside as headed by a Pamplona lawyer named ArturoCampion. Writ­ "prostitutes" and that only those fluentin the language could ing in 1876, Campion stated: "So long as Euskadi [Basques] work to recruit peasants. keep their original and personal tongue,there need be no fear Despite the massive input into Basque studies, the lan­ that their passion for their envied feudal privileges should guage has not spread very rapidly. There are an estimated decrease,for each word they pronounce will remind them of 600, 000 speakers in Spain and only 100,000 in France. Of the political and social condition of their ancestors, and will the 22 percent of the Spanish Basques who speak the lan­ encourage them never to falter in the claims to their undeni­ guage, only 56 percent of them (or 12 percent of the total) able rights." Another lawyer,Sabino Arana y Goiri, f

50 International EIR October 25, 1983 Ivan Illich, the Jesuit linguistician who wants to eliminate the national languages of North and South America.

The two institutions which work with Ciemen through On the French side of the Occitan operation, the Ciemen, the Defense et Promotion des Langues de France organiza­ whose Italian operations are based in Milan, also works to tion are the Barcelona-based Institut d'Estudis Catalans and "promote the development of the consciousness of Occitan­ its French offshoot, the Institut d'Estudis Occitans, both ded­ ians that they are Occitanians. " Ciemen also operates in Car­ icated to literary and linguistic studies of Catalan history. cassone and Montpellier. In Beziers, France, they have a Links to terrorism are run through the Catalan-Proven�al Centre Internationale de Documentation Occitane, which is theatre group called Els Joglas, in Barcelona. slated to become the "national library of Occitania." Other One member, Andres Solsona, was arrested in July 1983 institutions of Ciemen are the Conservatoire Occitan, the for harboring an ETA terrorist in his home. He was also a Centre d'Estudes Occitanes Universita Paul Valery,in Mont­ member of the Liga Comunista Revolucionaria, a Trotskyist pellier, the Escola Occitana d'Estiu Villeneuve-sur-Lot, all group promoting separatism on both sides of the Spanish­ of which study and teach Occitan. The Universite Ardechoise French border. d'Ete at Aubenas in the Ardeche is run by a collective review called Vivares, Terra Occitana. Another Occitanian group Occitania: a proliferation operating in Toulouse and Barcelona is the CAOC,dedicated of dialects to reuniting the paisos cantans (France and Spain). Occitania, whose name was coined by a Benedictine monk Closely linked to the Occitans is the Franco-Proven�al in the 17th century, is a Franco-Italian region stretching across movement. Spread throughout France, Switzerland, and It­ about 190,000 square kilometers, and home of 12 million aly (Piedmont), they are valley populations speaking a mix­ people. Known as the region of the langue d' OC, Occitania ture of langue d' oc and langue d' oil. According to Franco­ proliferates with dialects, including Proven�al, Delfinis, Proven�al linguistician Edoardo Ballone, "It is a neo-Latin Guinese, Limbuine, Auvergnat, and Guascon. The Movi­ tongue of an ancient population who lived, in the dark night mento Autonomista Occitano (MAO),or Occitan Autonomy of time, in a part of the western Alpine region. " Movement, works closely with Ciemen and with the Pied­ Organized in the research and study institute know as mont regional government, both of �hich are promoting EFFEPI, the Franco-Proven�als organize cultural events to study and use of the langue d' oc as the common language. bring together the disparate valley populations and to create Occitan was· the language of the religious sect founded in them a sense of common Franco-Proven�al·or "patois" by Pietro Valdes, until the Synod of Chanforan in 1532. In culture. Ornella de Paoli, secretary of EFFEPI, organized the this century, Fran�ois Fontan rehabilitated the old Valdes ian first such event in Val Soana in 1980, gathering people from language and founded the Parti Nationalist Occitan.· After the Aosta, the Savoy, and Switzerland. She wrote, "It was a death of Fontan in 1979, the Parti, which had won a seat in moment of rediscovery of collective consciousness, a redis­

the Cuneo city council, became the MAO, under the leader­ covery of our own ethnia. . . . " ship of Ignes Cavalcanti. Cavalcanti led the mobilization to The Turin University Linguistics Department is instru­ have the Italian parliament recognize the use of Occitan in mental in promoting the patois cause. Under the leadership the region, and to gain the same legal status that Sicily enjoys. of Prof. Gianrenzo Clivio (who also teaches at Toronto Uni­ ' The dialect is now taught in elementary schools throughout versity),the departmenthas put out a Linguistic Italian Atlas, the Italian Occitan Valleys. Children who learn Occitan are the atlas for the patois. assigned to reconstruct the history of their valleys by inter­ In addition to the major linguistic separatist operations rogating their grandparents. Vittorio Caraglio, who initiated mentioned above, the Ciemen and Piedmont regional asso­ the project, motivated it as a means of "rebuilding Occitan­ ciations are also actively engaged in promoting "linguistic ia," after a history of exploitation and looting. consciousness" of other ethnic group languges, including

EIR October 25, 1983 International 51 among speakers of Sardinian, Calabri­ ic proce'ss lagged, bilingualism was es­ neer the destruction of the European na­ an, Corsican, Slovenian, Alemany tablished de facto, rendering legal ac­ tion states. On May 26, 1981, the Coun­ (South Tyrol), and Albanian. The last tion essentially superfluous. cil of Europe Parliamentary Assembly is particularly promoted by Ciemen, The Partito Sardo d' Azione, recent­ unanimously adopted a resolution on the through the Palermo-based Associa­ ly elected to the national parliament, Catalan separatists. Entitled "Lengues zione de Insegnanti Arbesch, which has demanded that parliamentary de­ Minoritaries i Dialectes a Europa," the aims to unite the estimated 80,0 00 Al­ bate be carried out in dialects. The Liga document, authored by Spanish senator banian speakers spread throughout Veneta, which has entered national par­ Cirici i Pellicer, included the following southern Italy. liament for the first time, is also de­ demands: 1) the progressive adoption Other university institutions which manding recognition of the local dia­ of the correct forms of toponymy (place are involved in the Ciemen network in­ lect. The umbrella group which orga­ names) from the original language of clude the Philology Department of Mil­ nizes such legislative actions in Italy is each territory, no matter how small; 2) an State University, the Oriental Insti­ the Association for the Defense of progressive adoption of the maternal tute of Naples, and the Language De­ Threatened Tongues, headed by Prof. language in the education of children partment of Venice University (whose Alessandro Pizzorusso, of the Univer­ (use of dialect orally in the pre-school halls were recently given to the KGB­ sity of Pisa. Pizzorusso has prepared a stage and the normalized forms of the controlled Pugwash Conference bill which would allow !1landatory dia­ mother tongue in primary education proceedings) . lect teaching in elementary schools, op­ during which the majority language of tional instructionat the university level, the country will be gradually intro­ Separatists make gains use of minority dialects in courts, pub­ duced; 3) p�blic assistance fot the local The separatist linguisticians have lic offices, and banks. use of the normalized minority lan­ been at the forefront of a drive to legis­ But the ultimate court for airing the guages in higher education and com­ late ethnic autonomy. In Italy, after the complaints of the separatists is the Eu­ munications media of concerned terri­ national Parliament institutionalized re­ ropean Parliament in Strassbourg, itself tories according to the will of the com­ gional relatively autonomous govern­ a synthetic institution created to engi- munities which speak them. ment in 1970, the push for linguistic independence was accelerated. First to strive for special status was Sardinia, whose dialect was the first to be offi­ cially proclaimed a language. �AL�AC[LL As far the Sardinians are concerned, it was at Heidelberg University in West SOURCE OF EXCELLENCE Germany that the earliest linguistic re­ BIOTECHNOLOGY search was carried out, on which the separatist movement was built. Prof. Alfacell introduces tomorrow's biological products today. 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