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Subject: Re: [burmanet2-l] Re: The Times - Bribery is key to life in  Burma's death jail

Are you going to practice what you preach?  Or only preach?

At 02:38 PM 9/22/99 +0000, "Stuart Albright" wrote:

>Dawn Star -- Sure, there's room for "discussion" -- let's keep talking and 
>talking and talking, as long as there's no action.
>
>OK. Why did they cancel their plans? Obvious: Rachel got a long sentence. 
>And nobody wanted to follow her lead. I don't blame them, jail is scary. But 
>still the answer is there for everybody to see in clear daylight. They were 
>scared off by SPDC. So they all retreated from the battle so they could have 
>more "discussion." Right. Let's stop pretending.
>
>SPDC clearly wanted to scare the activist community into calling off more 
>direct challenges, like James and Rachel. Guess what, they did. They won.
>
>We can pretend that we're more "resourceful" in our easy lives outside, 
>writing letters and staging protests. But that stuff is soft work, for 
>clerks and little girls. Where are the real fighters?  Not the daydreamers, 
>but the really committed people? I only see one, and he's in Kengtung jail, 
>by himself. Abandoned, basically, by his so-called comrades. Who are busy 
>having "discussions."
>
>It's been almost ten years since the election. Ten years of talking.  Let's 
>change the name of Burma Action Group to Burma Talk Group. Might as well be 
>honest.
>
>Regards, Stu