Feb 1
Tears before bedtime
Ten years ago one of Africa’s least repressive states extended voting rights to its Black population. This earned months of jubilant BBC coverage bordering on hysteria. Such was the joy at Broadcasting House, I started to wonder if E had been handed out in the canteen.
The new Socialist government introduced endemic corruption, made most Blacks poorer, and saw the introduction of the highest crime and AIDS rates in the world.
This week,democracy in one of the world’s worst dictatorships was reported in tones befitting an outbreak of cholera. Such were the depressive tones of BBC reporters, I assumed an important leader had died, and a national funeral was about to begin.
Through gritted teeth, BBC reporters were forced to display jubilant crowds proudly waving their ballot papers.
Such was my sorrow for the poor state-sponsored journalists, I almost sent condolence flowers.
The Left better shape up.
To loose America to the right is understandable, but to loose two Islamist dictatorships to democracy looks like carelessness.
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Honestly, I half expected the coverage to be grim looking reporters saying “there is no sign of any voting here, everything has gone wrong, blah blah blah” while in the background jubilant people are celebrating, holding up their ink stained fingers…
So well put.
Freedom, Good Government, Freedom these are all unimportant issues to some on the left. Can it be blamed on imperialism or not? That is the real question. People are just pawns in the game.
>People are just pawns in the game.
People are now ‘the game’ in Iraq, surely that is the whole point of democracy, and incidentaly, the purpose of Islamism, Socialism and National Socialism is to prevent people from participating in ‘the game’.
Pass me the dice
I like what the French have to say on such matters:
It’s worse than a crime. It’s a mistake.