Word: freedom
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...Jesus, especially in the Gospel according to Mel Gibson (Lucian takes a lashing and keeps on gnashing), and part Spartacus, come to free the slaves - or are they pets - kept by the vampire overlords. In a dungeon or on a dark redoubt, Lucian offers his surly band of rebels "freedom and immortality!" (Wasn't that Tony Blair's campaign slogan when Labour ousted the Tories...
...wooden walls, and listen to Cantonese and English recordings of the fraught verses. "Don't say that everything within is Western-style," wrote one detainee. "Even if it is built of jade, it has turned into a cage." Added another: "Imprisoned in the wooden building day after day/ My freedom is withheld; how can I bear to talk about it?/ I look to see who is happy but they only sit quietly...
...including many members of the opposition party, say the purported charge is erroneous because the government, led by the Grand National Party, did indeed ask for dollar buying to be reined in. They further allege that the move reflects a concerted effort by the current conservative government to suppress freedom of speech in cyberspace, especially if it is anti-government in nature. "It's back to the past" says Song Yong Gil, a member of the opposition Democratic Party...
...Park's case awaits trial, law experts in Korea see this case as an opportunity to clean the books of laws that restrict freedom of speech, statutes they claim are aimed at rooting out the opposition. Says Park Kyungsin, a professor of law at Korea University, "There's definitely elements of authoritarianism in the nooks and crannies of our legal system...
...Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1999 for his work in Northern Ireland...