"2007: Taipei, Taiwan, where you can be held without trial for any reason, and with which most attendees' countries have no diplomatic relations whatsoever."
Hey, your description is not fair. In addition, individual freedom may have no direct relationship with diplomatic ties. Citations you can use http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=546&year=2010 http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2010 Can you guys go back to the practical matters regarding visa or entry? Thank you. On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Austin Hair <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:23 PM, matthew satchwell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is the thing with Zionists, a questions is not answered, instead a > > tirade of rhetoric, except I read from your response that you do accept > that > > there is a lack of freedom in Israel. (this is a start) > > I want to start by apologizing to the other members of this list for > feeding this. > > You talk about a lack of freedom, Matthew, but I have to wonder about > your definition. I heard nothing from you when we held Wikimania in > the following countries: > > 2005: Frankfurt, Germany, where you can be arrested for giving a Nazi > salute in public or drawing a swastika. > 2006: Cambridge, Massachusetts, where you can be held without trial on > terrorism charges. > 2007: Taipei, Taiwan, where you can be held without trial for any > reason, and with which most attendees' countries have no diplomatic > relations whatsoever. > 2008: Alexandria, Egypt, which was a police state until just a few weeks > ago. > > Argentina and Poland are also not exactly bastions of freedom, and > there were visa issues with both conferences. That's not unreasonable, > though, since every country on the planet has visa obstacles with at > least one other country. > > Oh, wait, that's not true. There is one, and only one: the Maldives, > where you can be arrested for not being Muslim. > > Austin > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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