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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."
to realize how powerful, brutal and savage governments are. When this happens in the usa, what will you do diffrently?
Given the humanitarian crisis in the US (high homelessness, education policy that deliberately places high quality education out of reach of the masses, health policy that deliberately keeps healthcare out of reach of the masses, financial system that fleeces everyone but the super elite, a government that uses the military to prop up an expansionist and harmful foreign policy etc etc) perhaps you'd support China invading the US to liberate the oppressed population there?
I don't support oppression, however it's a little silly for Westerners to point fingers, given that we've essentially given our governmental systems (note, I did not say governments, as governments hide behind partisan shows to give the illusion that the whole thing isn't a total farce) carte blanche to run their lives and take from their pockets at will. Our problems are as big as theirs. Perhaps bigger, as most people over here don't even know it, whereas there, its plain for all to see. A wise man once said that none are so hopelessly enslaved as those who truly believe they are free.
I hate printers.
step 1 create a universal danger to scare your populace.
step 2 get laws passed to speed up defending against the universal danger.
step 3 convince the populace that their freedoms are helping the danger and must be removed.
step 4 convince the populace that weapons also help the danger and must be removed for your safety.
step 5 show the steps are not going far enough, get populace believing that the danger is near!
step 6 remove ALL judicial protections in the name of security.
step 7 legalize total government secrecy in the name of security.
step 8 convince that term limits are bad and help terrorists and exacerbate the danger.
step 9 have populace elect a new easily controlled patsy as president.
step 10 invoke martial law.
you have successfully converted a democratic free nation into a fascist dictatorship.
The united states is currently on step 4 and step 5.
what is happening in Burma to the vocal dissidents will start to happen here. It already happens in the military as ground troops over there that are vocally against what is happening suddenly turn into government loving " we are doing the right thing, GW bush is awesome" drones in their blogs. That has been even covered here.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Is to regurgitate a decades old book, then you need to expand your horizons a bit.
"Of course, we've always been at war with Eastasia."
There is no "eastasia", it's fake. See that? F-A-K-E. Not Real. Made up. And stupidly mixing fiction with your opinion indicates how unqualified you are to discuss this subject.
1984 is as much fiction as Star Wars, but for some stupid fucking reason you political trolls rush to whore karma by quoting it.
Well, a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...
I only go to buffets for the unlimited soft serve.