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- DCMacHead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Were you expecting Buddhist monks with K-Bar knives clenched in their teeth blowing away everything that moves with AK-47s?
- fakingbush, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I am in China, and the TV report the protests is for high gas price. sad......
- DCMacHead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11It's fascinating to see this unfold and modern technology makes stuff like this very difficult to cover up or spin.
- evilregis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10...but it will always be Burma to me.
- davidwasman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11These monks are fighting the system in a highly oppressive country under the cloud of possible death and life incarceration...yet we live in a free country and all of us are sitting on our collective asses not holding anyone accountable.
Namaste, you fine brave men. - fancypantscz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10As much as religion is slagged for being the cause of much violence and division the recent actions in Burma should remind us that religion is a necessary part of almost any political revolution. I view traditional religions as an ancient form of human organization that often fails to successfully adapt to free and secular societies of today that are science based. This is most notable in the post industrial 'west' where a Christian world view oversimplified and dictated as good vs. evil often causes extremely poor decision making. However, we should remember that in the face of oppression, religion has created strength among the otherwise powerless and I argue that free societies everywhere have benefited from this aspect. It is how the power of religion is then corrupted after social freedom is achieved that remains troubling.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7wow, there's 5 dead right now, probabaly more between the time I post this and the time you read it. Those pictures don't tell that story.
- jlhoben, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6looks like they deserve their freedoms more than we do
- justo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6If peaceful monks can do this, what about the american people under dictatorship?
- revital9, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Also on video: http://tinyurl.com/289dv2
It's good that the media isn't letting the subject go yet. Let's hope the coverage keeps on. - sovereign3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Please tell me you don't really believe that. Burma is one of the most brutal military dictatorships still in existence.
- Danial, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5We invaded the wrong country to spread democracy.
- geddon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Which is more dangerous: A brutal military dictatorship or a global empire committed to military domination? Which is more inspiring: A peaceful protest of monks that moves a nation, or an apathetic country that barely cares enough to complain about the $500,000 per minute that is spent on war?
- NSMike, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Isn't it Myanmar now?
- tulpe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5the shooting has started
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSB588599 ... - Danial, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Uh, the actions of people do not make a religion.
- Danial, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Who cares? I refer to it as Burma. Always have, always will.
***** the military dictatorship! - arjie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I agree completely. Coincidentally, we had an argument in college today where my professor took exactly the stand that fancypantscz is taking. Very close to identical, even.I don't think religion is necessary, you just have to have a set of values that you can adhere to.
- kotatsu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Religion has caused the death and suffering of countless millions through the ages, and continues to do so to this day. The peaceful protest of a few monks does not in any way make religion valid, logical, justifiable, or rational, nor does it in any way prove that peaceful protest cannot happen through any other organization or belief system.
- andrewcsayer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Let us all hope that it doesn't come to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Quang_Duc
- yomamaisfat, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6Dugg for the massive Pet Rock in the first picture.
- brotherfranciz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Looks pretty quite what?
- libertinette, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Many people don't recognize the name change as they feel it's from the illegitimate government. At least that's what two activists on CBC radio said yesterday. I had no idea either.
- arjie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Wait, so these people went out and said, "You aren't Atheists! Die infidels!"? Oh yeah, I thought so, they didn't kill in the name of Atheism, did they? Whereas the Crusades, and the Jihads, these are religious wars.
- nadeau, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Do you know what is he holding ? A rock, a bowl... By the way he is holding it, it seems to be important...
http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorize ... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hitler was not an Atheist.
- vertinox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Whoah... Let me stop you right there. Hitler never came out and truly say if he believed in a Christian god or not. And secondly he got his anti-Jewish ideas from a preist.
Thirdly, Christian German anti-Jewish sentiment had been around for a thousands years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Crusade%2C_109 ...
Hitler didn't wake up one day and say... "Oh! I hate the Jews!" but rather average Christian Germans hated them two and it had been a part of their culture (To be fair... The British hated the Jews so much they massacred them all off in 1200AD and then the Spanish did the same things in the 1500s) The stuff didn't happen in a vacuum.
And to be fair, the Papal Pope condemned the German Crusades against the Jews, but many German Christian leaders were very anti-Jewish. Hell... Even German Martin Luther (the father of protestantism) wrote that they should destroy the homes of Jews and expel them. Hitler just latched onto the idea because it was a popular meme of your average German... Most who were Christian. - akula696969, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2yeah super logic there.....if someone is worse off than you, that makes you free.........idiot.
- hammerpants, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1All hail rock.
- jeuhrn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why is the guy posting the name of the photographer? It's dangerous running around with a camera down there these days.
- j1337, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Some people ignore headlines without "[Pics]" at the end of them, so I added it. I felt this story needed the extra attention.
- arjie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's a bomb dude. He's a terrorist! Atleast that's what they'll claim if they shoot people like him.
- hammerpants, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Page not found.
- Cymrubeats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSB588599 ... Digg, in all its wisdom (again), chopped your URL. WTF is with that?
- topace3000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes, the US is definitely worse than a military dictatorship. Also that is relevant.
- eastbrook, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not that I am a big believer in online petitions, but here's hoping that the message gets back to the people of Burma that we're at least paying attention. http://new.petitiononline.com/9848/petition.html
- matude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1it's like they are glowing in the second photo..
- shreela, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Situations like this are the reason for Tor, but police don't seem to understand that when they harass people running Tor servers.
- nadeau, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Do you know what is he holding ? A rock, a bowl... By the way he is holding it, it seems to be important...
http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorize ... - Snuff99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15 killed when the military did show. Is that not enough for you?
- fancypantscz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Well, thanks... for filling me in.
I dugg the story.
I hate the dictatorship there.
Go monks!
WHAT? - topace3000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If only we had private and state systems in our democracies to support the poor. "no country with democracy is doing good overall"? Stupidest comment today.
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- MinaLiyu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Dugg, cause I believe in freedom for al mankind!
My heart goes out to the people of Burma, and I hope, for once, that the Chinese and the Russians in the UN will see that freedom is more important than money&power. -
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