From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 16:23:15 MST
We just had 100,000 people protesting in Adelaide yesterday (what a stunning
event, really overwhelming I must tell you). Meanwhile, Sydney had 300,000
people (yes, Melbourne's record is beaten already, a very Sydney-Melbourne
thing), and Brisbane had 100,000. This is a LOT of people, given we are a
country of only 19 million.
Also, I saw reports of 2 MILLION people gathering in London. Yow!
--- <flamebait> This talk about the moral imperative to remove dictators brings up something that's been nagging at me about the holier-than-thou democracies proposing to go around kicking out other people's governments. There is a moral superiority granted to these governments (by themselves), deriving from their democratic basis. However, when you attack another country, you are not a democratic government with respect to the target population; you are an hostile power attempting to impose your will. When you pressure other governments, jackbootwise, into doing your bidding, you are again an hostile power imposing your will by force. When you make it clear to the world that you are comfortable with such behaviour, and in fact intend to continue in it and increase it, you are to the population of the world at large, who have no say in your election, a dictatorship. This is a dictatorship that is at best benign and at worst tyranous and somewhat murderous, even though to your own people you are a free democracy. </flamebait> Emlyn > -----Original Message----- > From: scerir [mailto:scerir@libero.it] > Sent: Monday, 17 February 2003 8:41 > To: extropians@extropy.org > Subject: Re: Giant anti-war demonstration in Melbourne > > > [demonstration? here they were singing > wide and loud this strophe] > > When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, > And the women come out to cut up what remains, > Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains > An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. > Go, go, go like a soldier, > Go, go, go like a soldier, > Go, go, go like a soldier, > So-oldier of the Queen! > > [from 'The Young British Soldier', > by Rudyard Kipling] > > > > > > *************************************************************************** Confidentiality: The contents of this email are confidential and are intended only for the named recipient. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution of the information contained in the e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please reply to us immediately and delete the document. Viruses: Any loss/damage incurred by using this material is not the sender's responsibility. Our entire liability will be limited to resupplying the material. No warranty is made that this material is free from computer virus or other defect.
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