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Au-delà de la liberté | Jean Louis Normandin | TEDxVannes


ben Thank you for coming to
my birthday I’m 30 I know that
is not seen but I was born there
thirty 30 years I was very
very thin beard I had just spent 6
128 days depending on you two meters
chain which is short my release
it is a second birth
Thirty years is the best age is to
the less time it takes is the age
it takes to start
tell a story that has trouble
want to say I understood I
you talk about freedom or lack of
freedom I have that chance here there
always means to ask or negotiate
to renegotiate the limits of its
freedom and dignity
the Universal Declaration of Human
man 10 states that the
Men are born free and equal in
rights and dignity
this means that man can not
treat the man himself say or
as other means but as an
end
it is precisely this that his
dignity is our very identity
it is our DNA
it does not actually negotiable
I want to talk about dignity
since man stood up
is part of a long quest
dignity
the liberation of the liberation
Nelson Mandela, for example at the end of
the slavery of battles to fight
where the vote for women parity
Gender late for work
Children 12 years in the mines
many small white pebbles in
the other way democracy is
anyway that we invented
better to live together is what
it is not the guarantor of our
our freedom freedom in
democracy is obviously more
easy but as I said there
always means to ask or negotiate
to renegotiate the limits of its
freedom and dignity as
See I covered
I have known many of the countries at war
Rwanda kosovo the Somali bosnia the
lebanon course of the warring countries
the only law that at times it is the law
the highest law of the better armed
When I was arrested in Beirut 8
March 1986 there were no
panicked at first it was
just a routine check by
example this could be it was
the expression of the law of the strongest or
Militia showing his muscles that we
intercepts with my colleagues but
is never immune from the worst
after a few days
I was in a closed room and
a group of armed blind type and
hooded enter the room with a
chain packet in the arm
that’s where my eyes were
like points
Question now is the time to
disbelief moment of stupor
this is the point when everything changes made
this is when the man – free
becomes a means and not an end as
said the Bill of Rights
the man
I became a hostage hostage
policy
So I’ll tell you about lack of
freedom
this is where I actually was
I really experienced the arbitrary the
in absolute deprivation
freedom but think always go to
same questioning is what this
circumstances bring me to love the
issues without rubbing my brain
and always keeps a few questions
as what solution it is suicide
fights like hell
look at the shooter in eyes
when at the time and feel
understand when she arrived
last time these
considerations lead me
always at least one point
appointment I had to be ready
I had to try to be worthy
padlock but because I had
ducks with chain was detached
three times a day it was time to
walk to the toilet and meal
depending on the mood of the guard was
never in the same order
course and then from time to time
walk or tea meal I had ap
tried to be honest anyway
because I have to tell you you had
proclaims a true measure of humanity in the
manner of tasks and canes according
yet you still have to understand
as a margin between the two have
ankles and wrists attached
each of them with a padlock
it’s 4 a day and padlock
next day just the two pins
attached each by a
padlock both cases has to kannad
save that it is always hello
yes because it’s not all
this is too easy not really there
something very evil in this
This kind of situation is not a prison
this kind of detention and one side
perverse of you have learned as I
why and how to kill them
dèche does not seem too stressed
at the videos I have no
actually looked frozen prepared
making this mock executions
which means that the day of execution
actual convicts exiled
are not expect to be killed
Me there was also one side
it
friendly it was an attempt a
will misinformed me from myself
disconnect from reality
the few words which proceeded out of
behind the masks
it was therefore lies father is
more with your mother and me for example
show the east-day coverage
the east-the day is the daily
Lebanese in French there was
a picture of my father with a lady
the wife of our hostage in fact be
the adverse press comment here
where it hurts
know his own father in roads
going to war to get his sound
own son that was really painful
one day I was standing or two but
put two strings and station
return with his Kalashnikov
he snaps his fingers he said was sleeping
as you would a medium dog
heroes I’m not
quietly I say no equally
calmly and I had created actually
without knowing
this time the strongest of
levers on the way to my resilience
on the way to my dignity on
way to my survival as my survival
during detention
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this is the time actually where I
move the lines in my report to
the other in my report to the guards
also how they me
treated after year the best
evidence
we did not believe I was going to
cinema every night after that but
nevertheless there was a small thing
that changes accepted but not
abandon this was my mantra because
Freedom addition if we do not use
accept is to begin to create his
Freedom does not give it
register in time because they
field as possible after 2 m shon
nam homo does not aspire to mortal life
but exhaust the possible field
this is not mine
that sentence Art Greek poets months
Nevertheless, I spoke to my soul
during the war during my detention
I spoke to my pain I
ask to be quiet and I have
recognize that this distancing
author was a true virtue
therapeutic
you noticed in life was
tend to face all the time
turning back this profile master
pain the accident took his truth
and I think that the weak
be considered as having the real
the need to face is to begin
to gain freedom
Be the captain of your soul say
Mandela in my wildest dreams
it is forbidden after meter
put two strings game I had the
the most beautiful women the boats
I was the sweetest travel
more beautiful and especially so
I had an incredible gaming sensation
could fly I was flying from the
scented countryside landscapes
beautiful and nothing could
stop
more concretely the blast
Area shooting souls gunfire
automatic weapons monstrous noises
caterpillars armored stress
guards bring me back to what I was
to my fragile frail provided
suspended the goodwill of
international negotiations in good or
the bad luck you have to say
in the same sentence that one is
remained attached too long because
in the same sentence he talks about the
and its real good albatross flight
agree it’s true I stayed
attached too long it is in
this time I was able to build a bridge
between one who grounded and
head in the stars
one who accepts but is not
so it does not abandon his voice is
that being captain is sonam
make sense
the answer oh my response to the
Guardian is the result of this quest
Working as personal sense of
time it is called white voice
of that flowing through the desert
one that crosses all fears
Fears of terror to those who remain
stuck in the mouth because the
fear as a yes of course
I must tell you the applications for custody
because my answer was confident
armed and hooded is chained kind
shaggy beard had to say no
he left the room your standards it
had gone to his superiors and
returned several armed masked
I confess that I was leading off by
sit cross-legged around me and
in fact this is where everything changes where
everything changes because there is a
Conversation between me and them almost
civil and courteous almost surreal
I could extend my firmness
posture with the guard being
determined on a non-negotiable
it was my dignity so I also
lucky the presence of mind
Read concessions to tell the good
guys you see on a hostage model I
not make hysterics but there
a limit and the limit is I who
laying there thinking of the man who
is not free is almost the same as
that of the free man and his crooked 2
asperities hope and dignity
because there is something else beyond
life beyond love beyond
freedom and dignity even there
the dignity of man
our status as human dignity
man standing with a large h
because we may be worthy pond
deprived of liberty
I think we can not be free
the private pond of freedom
diniz forgiveness and accepted but not
I abandoned you repeat it’s me
which raises the line it is I who asks
online thank you
[Applause]
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