Monday, June 13, 2011

lest we forget

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In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a 20-year-old woman was sentenced to a year in the slammer for reading poetry critical of the regime under which she lived.

Sometimes it is too easy to forget the easy comfort in which we live.
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2 comments:

  1. And yet Dubai is an ally of the U.S. Dubai is one of the richest and most modern monarchy's in the middle east.

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  2. I guess what i meant was pax romana rested on the suffering of the oppressed and conquered. History repeats now, not in a far flung future, and until we take responsibility for our part, will continue to do so.

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