This is government
The Liberty Papers
by tarran
06/21/09
She is being called Neda. The person who uploaded the video to Youtube claims that he was nearly half a mile away from the demonstrations when a sharpshooter shot a teenage girl standing nearby with her father. Within a few seconds, she was dead, her eyes turn to the camera before being obscured by the pools blood that pour out of her mouth and nose. Many people are arguing that this is the sort of thing that democracy is supposed to prevent. Of course, democracies also shoot people opposed to the government’s policies. Why? because government, at its heart, is an organization that uses force to get its way...
http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/06/21/this-is-government/
Silence isn’t golden
The American Spectator
by Philip Klein
06/19/09
Since a wave of protests broke out in Iran last weekend following its presidential election, the American media has promoted the Obama administration’s view that it could do more to help demonstrators by staying on the sidelines than actively offering rhetorical support. The theory is that if President Obama publicly encourages those taking to the streets in Iran, it will only backfire by allowing the Islamic regime to paint protesters as tools of America. As Obama himself put it, ’sometimes the United States can be a handy political football …’ But Amir Fakhravar says this approach is dead wrong. And he speaks with authority...
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/19/silence-isnt-golden
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tarran
by tarran
06/21/09
She is being called Neda. The person who uploaded the video to Youtube claims that he was nearly half a mile away from the demonstrations when a sharpshooter shot a teenage girl standing nearby with her father. Within a few seconds, she was dead, her eyes turn to the camera before being obscured by the pools blood that pour out of her mouth and nose. Many people are arguing that this is the sort of thing that democracy is supposed to prevent. Of course, democracies also shoot people opposed to the government’s policies. Why? because government, at its heart, is an organization that uses force to get its way...
http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/06/21/this-is-government/
Silence isn’t golden
The American Spectator
by Philip Klein
06/19/09
Since a wave of protests broke out in Iran last weekend following its presidential election, the American media has promoted the Obama administration’s view that it could do more to help demonstrators by staying on the sidelines than actively offering rhetorical support. The theory is that if President Obama publicly encourages those taking to the streets in Iran, it will only backfire by allowing the Islamic regime to paint protesters as tools of America. As Obama himself put it, ’sometimes the United States can be a handy political football …’ But Amir Fakhravar says this approach is dead wrong. And he speaks with authority...
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/19/silence-isnt-golden
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tarran
rudkla - 22. Jun, 09:30
