October 01, 2007 06:58 PM
The only good news coming out of Burma
Yes, AP is reporting that A U.N. envoy's session Sunday with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was "highly orchestrated." MSM is missing an important point and a big part of the UN visit: confirmation that she's alive and was not removed from the house where she has been under arrest.
BBC has more: Mr Gambari is believed to be the first foreigner to meet Ms Suu Kyi for 10 months.
Keeping a good thought here for Aung San Suu Kyi and for Mr. Gambari's efforts.
Thousands of monks detained in Burma's main city of Rangoon will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC.
About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests.
They are being held at a disused race course and a technical college.
Sources from a government-sponsored militia said they would soon be moved away from Rangoon.
The monks have been disrobed and shackled, the sources told BBC radio's Burmese service. There are reports that the monks are refusing to eat.
So, where is our "feel goody" American MSM on this one?
If I were the US President, I would have brought the Burmese ambassador into my office and shown him satellite photographs of the hundreds of military bases where our cruise missiles with conventional explosives would land if the military criminals cracked down on peaceful protesters.
Since we are supposedly in the business of freeing countries from brutal dictators, I would expect the total support of the American people and both political parties.
I believe this to be the best solution--wipe out the ability of the military to enslave the people.
I think it was the house today that had a vote condemning what is going on over there and two republicans voted against it.
here is a good article about what's really behind the 'revolution.'
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2007/09/coopting-myanmar-revolt.html
pissed off patricia @ 3:
Send those Republicans over to Myanmar in monk's clothing and let them loose.
Medical Diagnosis by Video @ 2:
I suspect Bush is thinking "now this guy could make a great future U.S. Puppet."
Here's an idea. How about we supply 1 kalashnekav and 5 hand grenades for every monk? I know it's against their principle but why not?
Medical Diagnosis by Video @ 2:
Unfortunately, the US is 'cracking down' on its protesters too. Not to the extreme like in Burma, but we are headed that way. More "Do as I say, not as I do" shit from the country who seems to have invented it. If not, we are definitely perfecting it.
L.A. Confidential @ 1:
they could be housed here but!!!!!!!theyr saveing haliburtons consintration camps for americans
Here's the bill on this issue.
MakeThis @ 10:
Passed.
I'm glad she's still alive
Medical Diagnosis by Video @ 2:
it would be more then likly bush would target the monks
The US's Silence in our Leaders and in our Media is another form of condoning the Military regime there....and yes, Repression is here- and much worse than it was than 5 years ago...the neocons here are headed down a path that is not unlike Burma...And many of those Monks that were rounded up were not even detained- they were murdered in their temples and monasteries- Asian papers have underground reports that are being snuck out...
enigma4ever @ 14:
unlucky for them they dont believe in violence ,no problem with that here
I should have said, the Thai online papers are the best source so far...for truth about the fate of the monks..
enigma4ever @ 14:
Dear God, slaughtering Buddhist monks, bad karma, real bad karma. I mean, spending an eternity as a boil on Rush Limpballs ass, bad.
Strange, if you read the bill, the language is not consitent with the US doemstic law enforcement:
Is it the sense of Congress that this should apply to Americans as well? If it does, then the Capitol Hill police needs a wakeup call: "Stop acting like Burmese military troops."
To NO 15:
They are monks, and it is their religion and spiritual belief system, they believe in non violence as a way of life, Buddhists and many religions do not find solutions in violence or guns, that should not determine their fates or explain Apathy by others.They are honorable men, they also educate all the youth in Burma-so their fate will have an impact for decades to come. Because they do not believe in violence does not mean that they should be so violently killed. There is no logic in that.
why would bush free the real elected leader of a country? he is afterall a dictator himself who stole the last two elections here in America and will probably declare martial law and stop the next election in the USA.
Of course, such an obvious (and potentially effective) fantasy that I laid out would never happen. No help from the land of hypocrites.
Tibet called for help when the Chinese invaded in 1959 and got none.
You have to have oil to get US "help" and then, it's no help at all.
Burma is lost, unless we pressure the Chinese with the threat of an actual boycott of the coming Bejing Olympics (which I would heartily support) and a boycott of Chinese products. That might
work a little.
The world is watching ...and sending this
http://mail.democrats.com/CT00021401MTY2NDExNAAA.HTML?D=2007-10-02
We've all watched in horror all week.
Who cares about this?
Thanks bluegal. I appreciate hearing updates on this situation which I think is as important, if not more, to democracy than our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Let's make Burma a case that this internet phenomenon can call a success. We are busting out knowledge and activism in a way that has never been seen in history before. We heeded the call to action on the Jena 6 case. This Burma case is looking to be the same. A case that depends on the internet to get the public awareness it deserves. Thanks.
Just think,, when the US Supreme Court decides the states have the right to deny ownership of firearms to US citizens and they then ban the ownership of them to the people, the US government can then treat us just like the Burma government is treating the people of Burma. Then we can stand around like the woman in the photograph and say;(which she was probably misquoted as saying )There will be change because all the military have are guns. What she probably said was,, There will be change because ONLY the military has guns.
Yes according to her there will be change. If you disagree with the government you may go from a standing vertical position to a prone horizontal one.... Lead poisoning,,,, Does it every time.
I offer my best wishes and good luck for the U.N. ambassadors efforts and best wishes for continued good personal health for Ms. Suu Kyi.
I don't know what else to offer... Money? Nah, don't think so.
Send money where? To who? For what exactly? Besides, if money could do it, make the hate and all the other issues go away... It would have to take more than the chump change I could offer...
As for our government getting involved as mediator? THIS U.S. administration??? Please.. not a good idea...judt ain't... So again, I can only extend my best wishes to Mr. Gambari's for his work on behalf of the Burmese people and monks.........JD
October 4th is FREE BURMA day, google it, 1000 s of blogs from around the world are blogging for Burma...also news about it over on Betmo's Life's Journey.....
And completely insignificant good news it is, too, when they are very well set up to be able to report to the public about the roles mult-national corporate entities, including Chevron and Halliburton, play in keeping the vicious junta in control of Burma.
John H @ 23: says "Who cares about this?"
You should John. A picture of your future in Amerika, under the Right Wing. Unless you're one of them.
According to a friend of mine here in Japan who is from Burma, she has said that the place where Aung San Suu Kyi is being held under house arrest is actually the psychiatric ward of a mental institution. I am not kidding.
Aung San Suu Kyi, you are a shining light to all the oppressed peoples of the world.
If our Democratic Senators were serving in Myanmar, they would have just voted the junta additional billions for weapons with which to repress the people who voted for them. I look at Aung San Suu Kyi and then at our Dem "leaders' and can only shake my head in dismay at the falling off there is from her to them.
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
with the full support of the msm, who just can't bring themselves to show the story before oj and brittany.
It really does look like the Myanmar ladership is auditioning for negroponte and boosh.
Here's one of my favorite song's, written by Damien Rice about Aung San Suu Kyi. (Unplayed Piano)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgnOrHMWw5M
the good son @ 34:
grenada was erstwhile toughguy and booshpuppet raygun.
bosnia was clinton.
booshjr has haiti, afghanistan and iraq and bases in 3 countries around russia. I guess it IS about the oil, eh?
Grenada came the day after Ronnie Raygun got all those Marines blown up in Lebanon.
Bosnia was more complex; although Iraq is beginning to look like the former Yugoslavia. I know a few Serbs who think it was a big set up in Dayton. I don't pretend to know the whole story. But it was Clinton who put NATO in, against fierce Rethug opposition, the same ones who are all behind Bush now.
Of course, there have never been greater hypocrites in this world than the US Republicans.
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Yes - well they know that when it comes to Aung San Suu Kyi - the whole world is watching.
God - I just love that poster. Where can I get one?
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Wow. Nancy Pelosi looks a bit like her ~
Can't compare the two of course.
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BBC's coverage of this has been uniformly excellent. Isn't it a pity that the only source of accurate and in-depth media reporting on any issue has to come form a foreigtn source? Maybe Europe could help us out a little and start a Radio Free channel we could all tune into to find out what's reaaly happening in the world. Even NPR's coverage was shallow and pathetic (no surprise).
While most of the world looked away the butchers of Burma carried out the slaughtering of innocent people. Govt. Bill Richardson could have helped himself
greatly by flying to Burma with UN envoy Gambari to help persuade the Junta leadership to go into exile, instead he seems to have shelved the diplomatic skills
he is campaigning on. What good is having something that can be beneficial to other people if you don't use it when the occasion arise. Doing what is right does not need permission.
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