Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005

Harold Pinter is the man who won Nobel Prize for literature in 2005. His Nobel Lecture was E X P L O S I V E ... to say the least.

An excerpt:
Do we think about the inhabitants of Guantanamo Bay? What does the media say about them? They pop up occasionally - a small item on page six. They have been consigned to a no man's land from which indeed they may never return. At present many are on hunger strike, being force-fed, including British residents. No niceties in these force-feeding procedures. No sedative or anaesthetic. Just a tube stuck up your nose and into your throat. You vomit blood. This is torture. What has the British Foreign Secretary said about this? Nothing. What has the British Prime Minister said about this? Nothing. Why not? Because the United States has said: to criticise our conduct in Guantanamo Bay constitutes an unfriendly act. You're either with us or against us. So Blair shuts up.

If you wish to read the original – here is the link - http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html

P. S : For non-literature-buffs...the political part of the speech starts with the sentence "As every single person here knows, the justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed a highly dangerous body of weapons of mass destruction, some of which could be fired in 45 minutes, bringing about appalling devastation."