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...under pressure from his Western allies, Ben Ali set aside 20% of seats in parliament for opposition parties. The multiparty system is "the government's décor, to show the world it tolerates opposition parties," says Eric Goldstein, Middle East and North Africa research director for Human Rights Watch. "But it does its utmost to silence and marginalize them...
...These two sects are thought to be the major types of libertarianism, but the range and gradations within the system of thought are extensive. Assistant Professor of Government Eric A. Beerbohm says that “the term ‘libertarianism’ is increasingly an omnibus term. It’s grown increasingly beyond the [High-Churchman of Ayn Rand] and economics...
...That’s what Repent America has set out to do. They spend a lot of time focusing on homosexuality, which earned a great deal of ire from the crowd. “That’s not Christianity, that’s Paulianity,” said Eric, a short man in a blue sweatshirt who repeatedly challenged the validity of the Paul quotation. “Paul’s scripture is given by inspiration of God,” Tyler kept replying...
...When I asked Eric afterwards about the religious background that enabled him to engage in a fairly articulate debate about the merits of Repent America’s assertions, he explained that he grew up wanting to be a Catholic priest but began studying other religions, from paganism and masonry to the “sex mysteries of Isis and alchemies of Horus.” “What is your religion now?” I asked, tentatively. “I’m a Thelemite,” Eric said. Of course he was. Apparently, there...
...about the whole interaction was neither the doggedness of Repent America nor the humorous antagonism of the crowd. (At one point, Borat showed up and agreed that “The homosexuals, they wear blue hats, they must be execute.”) It was how concerned everyone seemed. Eric and his cohorts stayed for the full two hours debating with the man on the stepladder. I asked the man holding the less-offensive sign (John 14:6) what they hoped to accomplish by talking to a crowd of inebriated people in costume. “We?...