From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Sep 06 2003 - 08:46:18 MDT
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From: Damien Broderick
>Only if he had no access to g**gle. Otherwise the little enquirer
>would find out that Taiwan was under martial law for the first 80% of
>its independent history and that its first general elections were in
>1996, by which time it was already prosperous relative to its mainland
>neighbour. You could always censor those pages, to reinforce the
>democratic message.
Yes, another beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact. Damien Broderick
Slain? Its a beautiful theory amplified by a
beautiful fact. When I said free and prosperous,
I didn't mean free to choose a leader. Leaders
are almost irrelevant; either way you get some
silly loser. I meant free to *make money* which
Taiwan was under martial law. spike
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