Word: dictatorship
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...academy yielded to the Catholic League and censored Kathy Griffin's Emmy Awards speech because she said she didn't thank Jesus Christ [Sept. 24]. It is a very painful reminder that we are losing our democratic freedom of religion, speech and the press and are moving toward a dictatorship in which organized religion controls what we hear and see. Next, the Catholic League will censor the media from reporting sex crimes by priests and the resulting multimillion-dollar lawsuits. Alton Hardman Altus, Okla...
...academy yielded to the Catholic League and censored Kathy Griffin's Emmy Awards speech because she said she didn't thank Jesus Christ [Sept.24]. It is a very painful reminder that we are losing our democratic freedom of religion, speech and the press and are moving toward a dictatorship in which organized religion controls what we hear and see. Next, the Catholic League will censor the media from reporting sex crimes by priests and the resulting multimillion-dollar lawsuits. Alton Hardman, ALTUS, OKLA...
...expect China to go easy on thuggish dictatorships such as Burma's because China is a dictatorship itself. But what about Asia's other rising power India, the world's biggest democracy? Surely Delhi has joined the rest of the world in condemning Burma's violent crackdown on anti-government protesters over the past few days...
...like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. But Eva was a unique phenomenon in Argentine history, so I'm not foolish enough to compare myself with her. Women of my generation owe her a debt: When we came of age during the dark [military] dictatorship of the 1970s, we had her example of passion and combativeness to get us through...
...your husband have also been aggressive about prosecuting human rights cases from Argentina's "dirty war" and the bloody 1976-83 military dictatorship that killed or "disappeared" up to 30,000 people - including friends from your own Peronist party. And in fact, one of those who recently testified, Jorge Julio Lopez, has gone missing himself. How do you plan to help Argentina battle that legacy? By focusing on three main values: truth, memory and justice. Some Argentines believe today that combating human rights abuses is a thing of the past or just a thing that only leftists and progressives worry...