tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post5183836772027809735..comments2024-03-16T09:11:27.097-04:00Comments on GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD: "Promoting Superstitions"GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09760252542953109449noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-81375309823351173242008-07-31T19:12:00.000-04:002008-07-31T19:12:00.000-04:00The fairness doctrine in action.The fairness doctrine in action.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-24792692416855136482008-07-29T18:16:00.000-04:002008-07-29T18:16:00.000-04:00Malaysia is also 'working on a clampdown'.http://w...Malaysia is also 'working on a clampdown'.<BR/><BR/>http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019758.phpkevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658957686218001026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-71484429163098099432008-07-29T15:03:00.000-04:002008-07-29T15:03:00.000-04:00But we can sit down with them and talk to them rea...But we can sit down with them and talk to them reasonably ... at least Obama thinks so.<BR/><BR/>Debbie Hamilton<BR/><A HREF="http://www.righttruth.typepad.com" REL="nofollow">Right Truth</A>Right Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18274108313586611205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-23012109964499915632008-07-28T23:53:00.000-04:002008-07-28T23:53:00.000-04:00Ah, but perhaps shutting down these magazines was ...Ah, but perhaps shutting down these magazines was justified. I mean, they were showing women's hair! And who knows what else they may have done. Perhaps they implied that women should read. Or interviewed somebody named "David." What if they published Danish cartoons? Or maybe, just maybe, there was a reference to McDonalds.Khaki Elephanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09042470098012648139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-81366531194081909272008-07-28T14:13:00.000-04:002008-07-28T14:13:00.000-04:00When a dictatorship cannot control the media it wi...When a dictatorship cannot control the media it will fall. Censorship of the masses is necessary to ensure that the masses stay loyal.Findalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02881549378886491540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-33676335453082437882008-07-28T01:38:00.000-04:002008-07-28T01:38:00.000-04:00Crazy, Courtney.What a sad, cowardly, pathetic lit...Crazy, Courtney.<BR/><BR/>What a sad, cowardly, pathetic little regime. <BR/><BR/>Every petty tyrant who thinks that their power is threatened by the slightest bit of freedom or just ordinary humanity thinks repression like this will save them and their people from the evil that freedom supposedly engenders. And, every time, the evil of their repressive efforts far surpasses anything that they were afraid might be unleashed by a respect for that freedom. And peoples who take freedom seriously almost always and inevitably end up being the good guys.<BR/><BR/>Ahmadinejad, Mugabe, Jong Il, Castro, Than Shwe, al-Bashir. Bin Laden, Nasrallah, Haniyah. It's all the same ball of wax, in the big picture.<BR/><BR/>I look at situations like this and wonder why it is so hard for the people of Iran or any similar nation to see that this way of running a country is fool's gold. And then I remember all the fear that shapes how they look at everything and the tendency to try to persistantly confirm that such fears are warranted because of their fear that doubting this means shaking their faith - in life, in humanity, in themselves, all of it - that is, ironically, reinforced by such doubt not shaken by it.<BR/><BR/>It's all such senseless tragedy. Nothing new. Just no less tragic, despite its long history.<BR/><BR/>Just a couple of magazines closed down, this time. Not the worst they could do, the regime reassures its people, I'm sure. Clever, aren't they? Almost makes you want to give them a gold star, if it all weren't so dishonest and wrong.<BR/><BR/>Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Wish I'd written that. Makes for some light-hearted reflection on life. Be a little more dreary if the good guys didn't always come out on top, in the end.<BR/><BR/>Time for Iranians to work up the courage, despite their fears, and figure out that the good guys are the ones who favor freedom. <BR/><BR/>Kind of ironic that this much more fundamental superstition - that freedom, rather than repression, is the source of their most serious probems and cultural ills -animates a regime pretending to combat superstition.<BR/><BR/>Then again nothing surprises me with this sad little government.Ben Sutherlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14193389264010365448noreply@blogger.com