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Turkey Censors YouTube
FM Reader writes "After a controversial mock-up video reportedly submitted by a Greek member about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, Turkish courts ordered the national ISPs to ban the online video service, YouTube. YouTube hostnames are currently redirected at the DNS level to a page that announces the court order."
The real reason it was censored was because the Turkish fundamentalist groups were sent a link of this video.
If you're debating on clicking on that link, don't worry, there's only one foul word in that entire 2 minute clip!
There are three talking points that no reasonable letter about Hon. Richard B Cheney can possibly ignore:
1. Cheney's underlings will leave us high and dry as they label everyone he doesn't like as a racist, sexist, fascist, communist, or some equally terrible "-ist".
2. It is both frustrating and frightening to observe the extreme ignorance -- no, idiocy -- present in his grievances.
3. He contributes nothing to society.
Here's the story: It is immature and stupid of him to test another formula for silencing serious opposition. It would be mature and intelligent, however, to promote peace, prosperity, and quality of life, both here and abroad, and that's why I say that if he truly wanted to be helpful, Cheney wouldn't repeat the mistakes of the past. He keeps trying to deceive us into thinking that diseases can be defeated not through standard medical research but through the creation of a new language, one that does not stigmatize certain groups and behaviors. The purpose of this deception may be to waste hours and hours in fruitless conferences and meetings. Or maybe the purpose is to meddle in everyone else's affairs. Oh what a tangled web Cheney weaves when first he practices to deceive. Whenever he tries to displace meaningful discussion of an issue's merit or demerit with hunch and emotion, so do what I call stentorian fault-finders. Similarly, whenever he attempts to introduce disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness, and want into affluent neighborhoods, the worst sorts of materialistic, yellow-bellied ragamuffins there are typically attempt the same. I do not seek to draw any causal scheme from these correlations. I mention them only because I would like to comment on his attempt to associate sectarianism with nepotism. There is no association.
In general, I can say one thing about Cheney. He understands better than any of us that psychological impact is paramount -- not facts, not anybody's principles, not right and wrong. I'm not suggesting that we behave likewise. I'm suggesting only that if Cheney thinks that he can make me become increasingly frustrated, humiliated and angry, then he's barking up the wrong tree. He is talking out of his posterior. But let's not quibble about that. When I was a child, my clergyman told me, "I find Cheney the most flagitious person in the world." If you think about it you'll see his point.
All I'm trying to do here is indicate in a rough and approximate way the amoral tendencies that make Cheney want to engulf the world in a dense miasma of incendiarism. His conclusions always follow the same pattern. He puts the desired twist on the actual facts, ignores inconvenient facts, and invents as many new "facts" as necessary to convince us that his methods of interpretation are good for the environment, human rights, and baby seals.
Cheney maintains that either authoritarianism and antipluralism are identical concepts or that divine ichor flows through his veins. Cheney denies any other possibility. Unsettling as that is, the more infuriating fact is that I have a message for him. My message is that, for the good of us all, he should never force us to bow down low before refractory quacks. He should never even try to do such a self-indulgent thing. To make myself perfectly clear, by "never", I don't mean "maybe", "sometimes", or "it depends". I mean only that a person who wants to get ahead should try to understand the long-range consequences of his/her actions. Cheney has never had that faculty. He always does what he wants to do at the moment and figures he'll be able to lie himself out of any problems that arise. He lives for one reason and for one reason only: to dominate or intimidate others. Cheney is totally gung-ho about neocolonialism because he lacks more pressing soapbox issues. It seems to me that he is both unregenerate and spiteful. Now there's a dangerous combination if I've ever seen one.
Cheney's agitprop machine is running at full throttle. (Actually, th
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