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Subject: Re: The abject poverty of the Burmese people

How many people does it take to run a dictatorship? What do government
workers do, at 3 dollars a month? Is there any work? Or its just a
title, like a movie ticket, to say you've been there, party member, part
of the government machine at 3 dollars a month?

People around the world are shaking their heads at the Burmese enslaved
population. It used to be said, by socialist workers, that working for
wages, was slavery. Well, three dollars a month, when the head of
Merrill Lynch, the banking company that pushed Total Fina to takeover
Elf, makes over a hundred million dollars a year, there is definitely
something very insanely upside down about the passivity, the indolence,
the indifference, the soulless, wanton lost character about the burmese
slaves. 

Johnny Rebel of the Student Warriors tried to shake them up. Perhaps
there is nothing inside to shake up. I don't know what has happened to
these people who think life is worth living at 3 dollars a month.
Perhaps they are just waiting for eternity. If thats the case, they
might just as well be dead. And take up the fight, to live, or die.

Nothing less when they got nothing to lose. 

Think about it. 


By the way, the head of the money trail, one of them, chairman of
Merrill Lynch, DAvid H Komansky, with a sagging chin and bulging neck so
fat you wonder if he has a neck at all, or maybe his face might just
dissolve into one fat blob of excess and greed, 
says this: 

"Now that we are entering a new century, and a new millennium, I find
myself more optimistic than ever before in my life." 

And he doesnt give a shit about Burma. And neither does Total Fina, or
the French government of Chirac, Jospin, and their rich business
friends.  Think about that too. 

In the future, no one is really going to give a damn about the Burmese
people if they dont fight for their own liberty. The junta is getting so
much money pumped in through the back door pipeline. This drug
production is definitely NOT going away. You can expect it to double
soon. There is so much money in drugs, and money laundering. 

Until there is a genuine revolution in the spirit, until the people take
up their will and disarm the bastards, its three dollars a month, or
less. 

Nobody can put a price on a human life. Not for three dollars. 

ds*

 
> Attention:
> 
> The average government worker in Burma only brings in 1000 kyat a month.
> That is only $3 US! Not enough to pay electric bills, much less food, rent,
> transportation and the other myriad fees that aflict one in a modern
> society. Is the SPDC trying to deliberately cause its own employees to
> wallow in squalor? Or does it openly expect them to suplement their living
> through forcing bribes from the honest people. Seems like a Catch-22 to me.
> Either me honest and starve or hop on the SPDC corruption bandwagon full
> tilt.
> 
> Maybe if you're a spy against your own people like Okkar, MGM, and JM you
> can live confortably (Plenty of bones to eat). For those who aren't stealing
> from the populace, however, the Burma road is nothing but speed bumps and
> potholes.
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