North Korea...
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I'm sure they're keeping the NK athletes sequestered so as to not see the relative opulence of SK but as the old song goes,
"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?"
The protest banners should have pictures of life in SK. To taunt them with what they probably know/fear already will only make them defensive. Kill 'em with kindness.
North Korea threatened to pull out of the World University Games on Sunday after a brawl between North Korean reporters and human rights activists protesting the communist country's leader.
http://espn.go.com/oly/news/2003/0824/1602021.html?partnersite=espn
"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?"
The protest banners should have pictures of life in SK. To taunt them with what they probably know/fear already will only make them defensive. Kill 'em with kindness.
North Korea threatened to pull out of the World University Games on Sunday after a brawl between North Korean reporters and human rights activists protesting the communist country's leader.
http://espn.go.com/oly/news/2003/0824/1602021.html?partnersite=espn
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Malachi's arguments about all of this, and his claimed support for communism was put in sharp relief for me today while reading a book review in the NYTimes. The reviewer was recounting a debate sometime in mid 50's, I think it was after the Kruschev De-Stalinization speech, where Earl Browder (Sp?) -- an un-reconstructed American Communist who had been expelled from the Party on orders from Moscow but who still ardently defended not only Communism but the Party and the Soviet model -- was debating Max Schenctman (sp?) a former Communist who had dropped away as the truth about Stalinism (and indeed the global Communist movement) became unavoidably obvious. Anyway, Schenctman responded to some tirade from Browder with the line (I paraphrase): "there, but for the grace of geogrophy, sits a dead man..." To which Browder could find little in the way of reply.
For our dear friend M: there but for the grace of time and geography, writes a dead man...for clearly where he to be living in any state striving to build a "communist" Utopia, he would either be one of the purged or the purging ... and as all Communist states have shown, the purgers -- who submit to the inherently un-democratic ways of a party that inevitably raises the will of one man or one very small group above the will of the entire people -- will someday become the purged.
For our dear friend M: there but for the grace of time and geography, writes a dead man...for clearly where he to be living in any state striving to build a "communist" Utopia, he would either be one of the purged or the purging ... and as all Communist states have shown, the purgers -- who submit to the inherently un-democratic ways of a party that inevitably raises the will of one man or one very small group above the will of the entire people -- will someday become the purged.