Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Bringing Democracy To Iraq (X Thousand Ruined Lives & Broken Families Later)

The paper of record sees the future:

[T]he Iraqi government moves to ban sites deemed harmful to the public, to require Internet cafes to register with the authorities and to press publishers to censor books.

The government, which has been proceeding quietly on the new censorship laws, said prohibitions were necessary because material currently available in the country had had the effect of encouraging sectarian violence in the fragile democracy and of warping the minds of the young.

As long as they're keeping the minds of the young from being warped by non-approved thoughts (or thought itself) we're fine w/ it. Of course, we may be hasty in our judgement. This may be just the sort of "democracy" the Bush Admin. wanted for their Iraqi colony. It's pretty much what they wanted for their fiefdom here in the United Snakes.
Simplicity = Not Falling Into Sin
And, a peep inside the fundamentalist mind (or the authoritarian reactions that pass for mental activity in the drooling Islamic or Xian believer's mind).
“We want to go back,” said Yosra Marwan, a 24-year-old student. “I do not like cellphones and the Internet and satellite television. Please tell people I am one of the Iraqis who dream of living in simplicity to avoid falling into sin.”
Unlike most of America's fundamentals, sad young fuck Marwan will probably not be dying soon.

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