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Great post, 2H9.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Good post. It is time for Mubarek and his henchmen to go.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Bob Dylan

One of the things that saddens me is the lack of coverage by the msm of brave people worldwide who demand freedom, liberty and the rule of law from the tyrannical dictatorships that rule their countries and are imprisoned, tortured and killed for their efforts.  I Wish the paranoid fantasy people in the US would bend their efforts to support these truly brave freedom fighters rather than imagining themselves to be so persecuted…

Rob!  Great article!  Thanks for bringing the imprisonment - and God know what else - of Abdel karim Suleiman to our attention. I have just fired off an email to our state’s congressional delegation.

Why the silence? Because people aren’t conserned about real infractions of one’s right to the freedom of speech, they are only concerned if you try and shut them up, to stop them from blathering… and they probably only blather in an attempt to be shut up… so they might then have something legitimate to complain about. Maybe because they are attention deficient. Its a NIMBY thing, OBVIOUSLY.

Look what we now have… freedom of speech for every asshole (yours truly) with a keyboard to infect the loud din of information flow with so much bullshit! I know that ‘true’ is a silly idea… but nonetheless, filtering the shyte is serious work. Even then, one cannot be sure they have anything that reflects reality. I often wonder, when people fire off emails to their reps right away after reading a gloss on the SA reader blogs, how much bullshit politicians are asked to address compared to how much realshit they are asked to address. It strikes me that we will probably never be able to put our finger, even remotely, on that actual ratio… thanks to… free speech. Nonetheless, I support it. Let the politicians deal with bullshit. We all have to. To what extent… who knows.

Esra’a from Mideast Youth linked this, and said thanks to you, Rob, for having such an open blog. I encouraged her and others from their regulars to jump on into the fray here. They are for the most part a young crowd and mainly Muslim, though the authors list at MeY is a mixed bag, some Jewish and Christian posters and mostly living in the Mideast and North Africa, with a few in England and the States.

I’m going to get together another post on this subject, of a more general nature. The more I looked for articles on Karim Amer the more I found other names, people being hammered down in different countries, under different auspices.

This is one of the reasons I get so irate when some chucklehead starts whining about the Patriot Act, and demand they provide a single instance, just F**king one, of a US citizen being persecuted for their political or religious opinions under it. AARRGGHH!!!! Having seen the results of real repression with my own eyes it just hacks me off.

Sorry, thus endeth the venting.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem