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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 70218 12-28-2011 07:10 PM

Munchaab Wrote:

Turkey is not the country that most/many think it is - unfortunately it is becoming far from the Republic envisaged by Kemal Atatürk...

There are no non-Government owned or pawnd free channels left - and of 3 satalite channels that report 'away from the party line' - the owners of two of them are in gaol...

More and more journalist etc here are being detained...

Is this happening elsewhere - anyone seeing this in their country?

It's called censorship. And tyranny.

It's happening all over the "free world". Europe, America, Canada, everywhere.

It's happening right here on this forum.

And it's getting more and more blatant by the day.

And it's probably only going to get worse.

**Crazycanuck**

tropicsky Wrote:

It sounds very similar to the Philippine political climate in the 70s-mid 80s under Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos. They and their cronies owned/seized all big business and all media as the country was put under martial law. It was a time of midnight curfews and ambush killings and torture of political prisoners by the army/police. Anyone who told the confronted or circulated the truth about the "high ups" and their misdeeds" was labeled an insurgent. It was also a time when rumors were more believable than the news. The rumor then was much CIA manipulations were going on as the marcoses were accumulating ill gotten wealth.

Having grown up in such a climate of fear then "new hope" in the form of "peaceful revolutions", then a new government, then some coup de tas, then impeachments, people's revolutions1,2 AND 3 and all thru this, politicians stole, our forests, mines and marine resources abused by the foreign bidders who made the best deals with politicos, the poor got poorer, justice died and the rich got richer and society stagnated.

I hate politics and the people who thrive on it. May this kind of political cycle be broken.

My sentiments exactly.....but, alas, it has been going on for thousands and thousands of years, it just plays out faster these days. Or, as a wise T-shirt one said, "same old shit, different asshole."
Srjceahd

**Mohammed**

Munchaab Wrote:

Turkey is not the country that most/many think it is - unfortunately it is becoming far from the Republic envisaged by Kemal Atatürk...

Yes, I agree. I rather admire Kemal Ataturk. Turkey could have been a really fine country, but it is doomed to become a crapper.

**tropicsky** lop guest User ID: 67729 12-28-2011 08:32 PM

My sentiments exactly.....but, alas, it has been going on for thousands and thousands of years, it just plays out faster these days. Or, as a wise T-shirt one said, "same old shit, different asshole."
Srjceahd

I'm not a fan of toilet humor but this bit of "toilet wisdom" is fantastic! chuckle