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[burmanet2-l] Re: The Times - Bribe (r)
- Subject: [burmanet2-l] Re: The Times - Bribe (r)
- From: bina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:02:00
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