tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post115669770643698228..comments2024-03-13T03:13:59.610+01:00Comments on the beatroot: Free speech in Poland must mean free speech for everyonebeatroothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-62179273543304700412011-10-23T23:30:01.336+02:002011-10-23T23:30:01.336+02:00I fully match with whatever thing you've prese...I fully match with whatever thing you've presented.muebleshttp://www.muebles.cnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-72164620835613691662009-11-22T22:19:30.514+01:002009-11-22T22:19:30.514+01:00[url=http://firgonbares.net/][img]http://firgonbar...[url=http://firgonbares.net/][img]http://firgonbares.net/img-add/euro2.jpg[/img][/url]<br />[b]software selling website, [url=http://firgonbares.net/]software store pictures[/url]<br />[url=http://firgonbares.net/][/url] order pro software children educational software<br />autocad map 3d 2009 lock up on opening [url=http://firgonbares.net/]filemaker pro 10 windows torrent[/url] mobile software price<br />[url=http://firgonbares.net/]message store software[/url] price tags software<br />[url=http://firgonbares.net/]selling educational software[/url] buy sell signals software<br />software cheapest price [url=http://firgonbares.net/]nero coupon[/b]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-75990872437711057392009-11-12T10:52:28.543+01:002009-11-12T10:52:28.543+01:00Nice Read ! thanks for the post
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Depends what you mean...<I>democracy just doesn't work. </I><BR/><BR/>Depends what you mean by 'working'. Is democracy and messy business whereby the best most rational decisions are not taken? Well, of course. They don;t in totalitarian societies either. <BR/><BR/>The way democracy should be judged is if it enables individuals and groups to take part in the decisions that affect them. On that basis democracy 'work's better than most...beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1157003791665975742006-08-31T07:56:00.000+02:002006-08-31T07:56:00.000+02:00"democracy just doesn't work"Well, there is a theo..."democracy just doesn't work"<BR/><BR/>Well, there is a theory of something called a democracy threshhold. Basically, the theory goes:<BR/><BR/>There needs to be a certain level of education across society and a certain level of material well-being before democracy can work in any given society. The uneducated (in broad formal terms) and those who live hand to mouth do not make good choices at the ballot box.<BR/>FWIW Poland in the 90's was at the economic margin of the threshhold though safely over the education threshhold.<BR/>Worryingly, the percentage of the country well under both threshholds (from my perspective) has increased somewhat over the last 15 years or so.<BR/>The two divides in the last election were urban/rural and more-educated/less-educated.<BR/><BR/>Cultural factors come into play as well and sadly, the more-educated are much more likely in Poland to not vote as being interested in politics in and of itself is seen as uncouth and simple, two things that most Polish people (who are mostly of very recent peasant stock) are very sensitive about.michael farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232229721381140090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156976498216295522006-08-31T00:21:00.000+02:002006-08-31T00:21:00.000+02:00All true, Ignacy, which proves, as Kent Brockman o...All true, Ignacy, which proves, as Kent Brockman once said, democracy just doesn't work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156950157990787242006-08-30T17:02:00.000+02:002006-08-30T17:02:00.000+02:00And the same should then be said more amply of Ame...And the same should then be said more amply of Americans and others as well. Thing is, Wierzchejski's (sic)party got about what... 15% of the vote, whereas Bush got 50-plus percent. Oh yea, and only 21% of Polish voters voted in the European parliamentary elections where the jerk obtained his seat to very unfortunately represent all Poles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156946166022410572006-08-30T15:56:00.000+02:002006-08-30T15:56:00.000+02:00TC can generalise in this case since the speaker (...TC can generalise in this case since the speaker (Wierzchejski) was and remains a democratically elected member of parliament. If Poles keep on electing fascists it indicates that they have not learned from the past.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156941952148414332006-08-30T14:45:00.000+02:002006-08-30T14:45:00.000+02:00Chicago, 1968. Nixon.Chicago, 1968. Nixon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156873840996110952006-08-29T19:50:00.000+02:002006-08-29T19:50:00.000+02:00Demos Many people think that going on a demonstrat...Demos <BR/><BR/>Many people think that going on a demonstration will push governments to change the course of action, policy. That does happens sometimes but rarely.<BR/><BR/>Loads of people get shocked and despondent when it doesn’t change anything. (Most of the millions of people at the anti-Iraq war in London were demonstration virgins’. They expected Blair to stop the war. He didn’t. They gave up). <BR/><BR/>The purposes of demonstrations are much broader than that.<BR/><BR/>It gets the thing you are demonstrating about in the media. Violent demonstrations gets even more media but can have positive or negative affects on the campaign. Depends what kind of violence. Context. <BR/><BR/>It encourages people who have committed themselves in someway to ‘the cause’…makes you feel you are not alone….gives a feeling of solidarity…encourages you to do the same again.<BR/><BR/>It increases membership of certain organizations, parties. Gets some deeper involved. <BR/><BR/>So demonstrations are part of a process, they are not an end in themselves. <BR/><BR/>Most importantly it forces issues out in the open. And you can’t resolve something unless it is out in the open, people are talking about it and being exposed to new (and old) ideas.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156873510060769172006-08-29T19:45:00.000+02:002006-08-29T19:45:00.000+02:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156872108912578332006-08-29T19:21:00.000+02:002006-08-29T19:21:00.000+02:00Isn't it "History can help us to recognize the pow...Isn't it "History can help us to recognize the power of unintended consequences,”?<BR/><BR/>So not that history is determined by unintended consequences...but that the <I> study of history can help us see the pattern and form</I> in unintended consequences.<BR/><BR/>A couple of words in a sentence can make all the difference.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156857190995312312006-08-29T15:13:00.000+02:002006-08-29T15:13:00.000+02:00Do demonstrations actually move other folks toward...Do demonstrations actually move other folks towards the intended objective, or do they have the opposite effect?<BR/><BR/>I really don't know.<BR/><BR/>History is a tangle of unintended consequences -- somebody else said that but I can't recall who...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156799293499412472006-08-28T23:08:00.000+02:002006-08-28T23:08:00.000+02:00Lucyna meant that there have been attacks on gays ...Lucyna meant that there have been attacks on gays in Moscow and there was that demonstration in St Petersberg where the police went apeshit. Much worse than Poznan even. <BR/><BR/>But taking legal action against prejudiced speeck is counterproductive. When you fighting for basic freedoms it is not wise to try and deny others them. More freedom of speech not less is what is needed.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156785527141959862006-08-28T19:18:00.000+02:002006-08-28T19:18:00.000+02:00You're right. I'm sorry. I can't generalize.You're right. I'm sorry. I can't generalize.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156781350511262482006-08-28T18:09:00.000+02:002006-08-28T18:09:00.000+02:00TC: So, based on what one idiot who represents a s...TC: So, based on what one idiot who represents a small political party said, you are extrapolating and saying that "this is what *the Poles* have learned from the Holaucost." (sic)<BR/><BR/>Bigotry and idiocy comes in many forms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156774933338569742006-08-28T16:22:00.000+02:002006-08-28T16:22:00.000+02:00Before the Tolerance Parade this summer Wojciech W...Before the Tolerance Parade this summer Wojciech Wierzejski, spokesman for League of Polish Families, said that if ‘deviants begin to demonstrate they should be beaten (bludgeoned) with batons’. <BR/><BR/>Sounds like a tip to Jedwabne all over again. This is what the Poles have learned from the Holaucost. <BR/>Brilliant!<BR/><BR/>TCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-1156737725853637212006-08-28T06:02:00.000+02:002006-08-28T06:02:00.000+02:00Gosh, those gay activists are really going for it ...Gosh, those gay activists are really going for it in Poland, aren't they? I wonder if they'd try the same thing in Russia.Lucia Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10485990994973953860noreply@blogger.com