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Bloggers Who Risked All In Burma
An anonymous reader sends us to the UK's TimesOnline for a story about dissident Burmese bloggers, who, with the Internet shut down in the country, are no longer posting live stories. Some of them are on the run and fearing for their lives. "Internet geeks share a common style, and Ko Latt and his four friends would not be out of place in cyber cafes across the world. They have the skinny arms and the long hair, the dark T-shirts and the jokey nicknames. But few such figures have ever taken the risks that they have in the past few weeks, or achieved so much in a noble and dangerous cause. Since last month Ko Latt, 28, his friends Arca, Eye, Sun and Superman, and scores of others like them have been the third pillar of Burma's Saffron Revolution."
...if instead of being so full of praise for people dodging bullets to overthrow a dictator in other countries, Americans got off their backsides and did something about the dictator in theirs. Some of you are such utterly brainless sheep that you still don't recognise that he is one.
Is Bush going to have to start killing you en masse the way the Burmese government is doing with its' citizens before you'll recognise that, while maybe the magnitude is different, (currently) that he is still cut from the same cloth?
>This is what real repression and censorship looks like.
They use live ammunition which is much cheaper than rubber bullets, tasers, and tear gas.
But that's really the only difference, and I consider it a *marginal* difference, between what's going on in Burma today and what happens to organized protests in the USA.
No. Bloggers make no difference. Burma has been oppressing people for decades. Decades. The first thing I ever learned about Burma in my Asian studies classes was: Burma has been oppressing people for decades. Anyone in power anywhere in the world has known about it.
Simply put: "Sucks to be them." Same as with Iraq. Not that I believe going into Iraq had anything to do with oppression, but even if it had, I wouldn't have thought that a good reason to interfere. I don't want any other countries coming and telling my country how to do things; I don't expect any country does.
It is none of our business. None. We can't save everyone, so we should just stay out of it.
tl;dr
You're in denial.
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