"A young blogger and a writer who disguised an attack on the country’s dictator in the form of a love poem have received heavy jail sentences, in the latest blow to opponents of Burma’s military dictatorship.You and I may feel disgust at this level of control and repression but I would not be surprised if in the minds of Brown, Straw, Mandelson and Blunkett, a little light was flickering... Could they, would they?
Nay Myo Kyaw, a 28-year old man who blogged under the name Nay Phone Latt, was sentenced to 20 years and six months in jail by a court in Rangoon.
The poet, Saw Wai, received a two year sentence for an eight-line Valentine’s Day verse published in a popular magazine. Even the lawyer representing the two men, Aung Thein, has been sent down for four months for “contempt of court” during his defence.
They join more than 2,000 other political prisoners in Burma’s jails, half of whom have been incarcerated since last September’s “Saffron Revolution”, when tens of thousands of Buddhist monks and political activists took to the streets in a failed uprising against the junta."
Tuesday 11 November 2008
Another idea that Gordon Brown may like to copy
The Times reports that:
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dare they?
I doubt they want to instegate it.
They are ready none the less. The power of the state is in their hands. They dont need it yet, the original plan called for a peaceful, slow, hidden take over.
Brown is a player but I doubt he is one of the movers. He is hoping for a promotion for doing his part.
The liblabcon scyme is to keep us as sweet as possible, but thats coming unstuck.
If we do our part to help the unstuck become more unstuck we may help to force the issue. defiance, morning, noon and night.
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