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Day: February 21, 2006

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Teacup Firewall

If I hear ‘Great Firewall of China’ one more time…

China wants to suppress freedom in religion, ideas, words, actions, and so much more. The Chinese government is run by dictators who label themselves communist. They could give themselves any label. It really doesn’t matter. They are in power and that’s the way it will remain. Ideas and freedom threaten their precarious hold on over 1 billion people.

Why does their need for control and American industry’s acquiescence surprise anyone?

Why are we sorrowed at our industrial and technological giants who are looking at the potential of a vast market (yeah, 1 billion people living at subsistence level are going to on-line purchase through Google —“ hahahahahaha)?

Do you think that ideals and freedom are what these companies are all about? The only thing a company stands for is its bottom line. Actually they stand and bow to it.

Saud is in our gas tanks and ports, China is in our technology, all because someone got rich. We wouldn’t let China have a petroleum company. Why? I guess that hit to close to home for America’s ruling elite.

If there were a motivation to support the good and just, or even to do what is right for this country, we would have to get on board with annihilating these dictators and converting their followers (think natural implications here).

As it is, the teacup firewall is only as strong as our willingness to reinforce it by trading strength for weakness.

Current Events, Political

Bring back the fez

I highly recommend that you read Turkey and the Ecumenical Patriarch posted at Pontifications. I also urge you to write your elected representatives in the House and Senate.

Turkey’s outright persecution of the Ecumenical Patriarch and of Orthodoxy in general is repulsive. This persecution extends to the Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church, Roman Catholics, and evangelical Christians.

Please express to them the need to hold Turkey’s allegedly democratic feet to the fire and to hold them accountable for their outright persecution of Christians.

Based on the events of the last several months alone, the EU should be running from Turkey as fast as it can.

Let’s hope Greece, Poland, Denmark and other EU countries that have dealt with Islamofascists for a thousand plus years would work to veto any inclusion of Turkey.

The ideas of Mustafa Kemal Atatí¼rk have been destroyed in less than 100 years. Atatí¼rk said: “The major challenge facing us is to elevate our national life to the highest level of civilization and prosperity.”

While Atatí¼rk was a nationalist and while his ideas led to the participation in the wholesale slaughter of Armenians in the genocide and the expulsion of Greeks and Christians in general is reprehensible, the parts of Atatí¼rk’s philosophies that took a generally progressive and socialist attitude toward modernizing Turkish life had some value. The Ottoman state, against which he fought, was as outmoded as the rest of Arabia. Atatí¼rk resolved to lead his country out of the crumbling Islamic past into the future.

Ostensibly his program of modernization, secular government and education were positives. He, at least on paper, made religious faith a matter of individual conscience. His secular system could have allowed all in Turkey the freedom to practice their faith.

I always found the elimination of the fez to be interestingly symbolic. Since Atatí¼rk’s democratic ideals and western tendencies are generally summarized by his elimination of the fez, I hereby decree that all Turks are to begin wearing the fez once again.

If you’re going to throw off ‘democracy’ why not look the part.

Part II of my decree will include the elimination of the fez in favor of the bomb hat.

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