At 2:49 PM -0500 3/29/04, Louis Proyect wrote:
I don't think the issue is whether you can protest in the streets in
Iraq. Obviously you can. This is not exactly Pinochet's Chile,
although down the road it might come to that.
It is really more a question of determining what Iraqis think about
the occupation, etc. As long as you shut down newspapers (even
though not murdering the editors as routinely happened in Colombia),
the citizenry is forced to rely on a limited menu. This will color
polls.
Most of the times, the point of censorship is probably not to make
all dissent impossible, which is not feasible, but to isolate those
who do have the courage to stand up, speak out, protest, resist by
force, etc. from the rest of the population who are taught the lesson
of what will happen to those who dare to dissent.
--
Yoshie
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