Comments on: Burmese blogger receives 20-years prison for poem about dictator http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 20:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327698 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327698 That's why it's a short list. The idea isn't punishment, it's to remove their evil from the world so that things can get better. Margaret Thatcher is NOT on the list, because while she's plenty evil, she's not an ongoing source of harm at this point. That’s why it’s a short list. The idea isn’t punishment, it’s to remove their evil from the world so that things can get better. Margaret Thatcher is NOT on the list, because while she’s plenty evil, she’s not an ongoing source of harm at this point.

]]> By: demidan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327721 demidan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327721 Is the poet a Vogon? Is the poet a Vogon?

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327737 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327737 nope,but his hosts are nope,but his hosts are

]]> By: LeavingHalfway http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-328004 LeavingHalfway Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-328004 to the pain. to the pain.

]]> By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327751 Antinous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327751 I hate to one-up someone on repression, but: Fourteen "88 Generation" activists in Burma have been given jail sentences of up to 65 years over their role in anti-government rallies last year...<b>They were convicted of four counts of illegally using electronic media and given 15 years on each charge</b>, plus five years for forming an illegal organisation - 65 years in total. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7721589.stm I hate to one-up someone on repression, but:

Fourteen “88 Generation” activists in Burma have been given jail sentences of up to 65 years over their role in anti-government rallies last year…They were convicted of four counts of illegally using electronic media and given 15 years on each charge, plus five years for forming an illegal organisation – 65 years in total.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7721589.stm

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327760 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327760 they are talking against Suu Kyi. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/11/burma-aung-san-suu-kyi this will end in a bloodbath. I hope every general dies slowly. they are talking against Suu Kyi.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/11/burma-aung-san-suu-kyi

this will end in a bloodbath. I hope every general dies slowly.

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327778 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327778 Death? Why not a fate worse than death for these people, powerlessness and public mockery? Less bloody to laugh at powerless ex-tyrants... Blogger busted, And not to See the light of freedom and Truth for so long, Almost an age - Rage against the generals! Devils really, Spawn of the lowest Hell. ! Death? Why not a fate worse than death for these people, powerlessness and public mockery? Less bloody to laugh at powerless ex-tyrants…
Blogger busted,
And not to
See the light of freedom and
Truth for so long,
Almost an age –
Rage against the generals!
Devils really,
Spawn of the lowest Hell.
!

]]> By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327587 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327587 Than Shwe and the other Burmese generals are on my list of people whose death I would not hesitate to cause, were I given power over their lives. Just sayin'. Than Shwe and the other Burmese generals are on my list of people whose death I would not hesitate to cause, were I given power over their lives.

Just sayin’.

]]> By: erissian http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-328356 erissian Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-328356 "Mr Valentine's magazine can love, But the General charged." The secret message from the quote :) “Mr Valentine’s magazine can love, But the General charged.”

The secret message from the quote :)

]]> By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327588 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327588 Um, I should probably say that it's a very short list...Al Qaeda, people like that. Um, I should probably say that it’s a very short list…Al Qaeda, people like that.

]]> By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327600 Antinous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327600 I pity even the orcs. I pity even the orcs.

]]> By: andyhavens http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-328887 andyhavens Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-328887 In times of trouble, challenge or unrest, many choose the low road as their way. Perhaps subconsciously abandoning the best, essential nature we all share in better days. Anyone may stumble, trip and fall. Can we expect perfection in one man? Humility demands that we judge all good intentions fairly. Yet we can eaily forget that signs are there, obvious to see and to convey rigorous attention to the glare governing the laws we all obey. Each sign that sends another to a fall will sign our trust is misplaced overall. In times of trouble, challenge or unrest,
many choose the low road as their way.
Perhaps subconsciously abandoning the best,
essential nature we all share in better days.

Anyone may stumble, trip and fall.
Can we expect perfection in one man?
Humility demands that we judge all
good intentions fairly. Yet we can

eaily forget that signs are there,
obvious to see and to convey
rigorous attention to the glare
governing the laws we all obey.

Each sign that sends another to a fall
will sign our trust is misplaced overall.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327607 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327607 This is very similar to another incident that took place in 1991 in which a poet hid the message <a href="http://sniggle.net/snicker.php">“Li Peng Must Step Down to Appease the People’s Anger”</a> in a poem in the overseas edition of China’s Communist Party newspaper, the “People’s Daily”. This is very similar to another incident that took place in 1991 in which a poet hid the message “Li Peng Must Step Down to Appease the People’s Anger” in a poem in the overseas edition of China’s Communist Party newspaper, the “People’s Daily”.

]]> By: GuidoDavid http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327610 GuidoDavid Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327610 I am not sure I would be able to do anything physical to him, but when this monster dies I am going to be extremely happy. I am not sure I would be able to do anything physical to him, but when this monster dies I am going to be extremely happy.

]]> By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327632 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327632 I was talking about the red-button scenario. You know, where if you press the red button some person or group of people will drop dead, and you have to decide whether you'd do it. (It assumes you know for sure what the red button does etc.) So my list is the ones I'd press the red button to eliminate. Not clear I'd actually throttle them with my bare hands. I was talking about the red-button scenario. You know, where if you press the red button some person or group of people will drop dead, and you have to decide whether you’d do it. (It assumes you know for sure what the red button does etc.)

So my list is the ones I’d press the red button to eliminate. Not clear I’d actually throttle them with my bare hands.

]]> By: chanmyasoe http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-375795 chanmyasoe Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-375795 That was Nay Phone Latt, not Saw Wai. pls correct it!!! That was Nay Phone Latt, not Saw Wai. pls correct it!!!

]]> By: Cool Products http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-328183 Cool Products Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-328183 A 20-year prison sentence for "disturbing the peace"? Well, now I know where I'M going for Spring Break '09. A 20-year prison sentence for “disturbing the peace”? Well, now I know where I’M going for Spring Break ’09.

]]> By: dculberson http://boingboing.net/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-rece.html#comment-327673 dculberson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-327673 "Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?" “Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?”

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