On May 16, 5:10=A0am, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 15 May 2008 23:03:01 +0800, rst0wxyz wrote
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> > On May 14, 11:26=3DA0pm, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:49:04 +0800, rst0wxyz wrote
> >> (in article
> >> <de462654-031b-4c8a-bc2a-c4eac8037...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> Today, the right to vote, elections, freedom of speech, freedom of
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> >>> press,... are a luxury China can not afford to take.
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> >> Strong evidence exists that poor but free countries do better than
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> >> countries without freedom.
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> >> Compare Thailand (with its fragile but working democracy) and Burma.
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> >> two countries are similar in every respect but one -- freedom.
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> > Thailand is also a third world country in every respect.
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> Far ahead of Burma, because of its democracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand
This is what you called a "democracy"!!!.
See also: 2006 Thai coup d'=E9tat
Without meeting much resistance, a military junta overthrew the
elected government of Thaksin ****nawatra on 2006 September 19 . The
junta abrogated the constitution, dissolved Parliament and the
Constitutional Court, detained and later removed several members of
the government, declared martial law, and appointed one of the King's
Privy Counselors, General Surayud Chulanont, as the Prime Minister.
The junta later wrote a highly abbreviated interim constitution and
appointed a panel to draft a permanent constitution. The junta also
appointed a 250-member legislature, called by some critics a "chamber
of generals" and others claimed that it lacks representatives from the
poor majority.[14][15] In this interim constitution draft, the head of
the junta was allowed to remove the Prime Minister at any time. The
legislature was not allowed to hold a vote of confidence against the
Cabinet and the public was not allowed to file comments on bills.[16]
This interim constitution was later surpassed by the permanent
constitution on 24 August 2007.
Martial law was partially revoked in January 2007.
The ban on political activities was lifted in July 2007,[17] following
the 30 May dissolution of the Thai Rak Thai party. The new
constitution has been approved by a referendum on 19 August, which led
to a return to democratic elections on 23 December 2007.
Thailand remains an active member of the regional Association of
Southeast Asian Nations.
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> >> One is much richer than the other.
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> > Not much more.
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> Thailand easily adopted westernization and opened its economy through a
> policy of free enterprise;
Do you think the "westernization and opening its economy through
policy of free enterprise" is a "cure all" solution to world
problems? Don't you think their may be other ways? Don't you think
the Asians have their ways of solving their problems? instead of the
westernized ways?
> Myanmar rejected Western ways,
So what? Western ways are NOT the ways they want. Maybe they don't
want the western obscene life of lust, ***, rape, murders, street
gangs, and most of all the corruption of the youth with western ideas.
> and chose to
> isolate their nation from the global economic system.
Maybe they foreseen the end of civilization and preparing for the life
of nature and stone age living when doomsday finally arrives.
> As a result, Thailand's
> per capita GNP rose almost $3,000 in 30 years. Myanmar's per capita GNP
> raised only $600 in the same amount of time. Only the presence of the
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> market has made the economy of Myanmar tolerable.
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> http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/funda/Notes/Notes_Exam3/MyanmarThail...
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> Thailand's per capita annual GNP (PPP) $9,200 (2006 est)
> Burma's per capita annual GNP (PPP) $1,700 (2005 est.)
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> Seems to be a factor of 4.
And Thailand continues to be a third world country.
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> >> Compare North and South Korea. These two parts of one country are
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> >> similar (identical in culture, language, etc). One is an economic
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> >> and cannot feed its people. The other has an annual per capita GNP of
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> >> 25,000 US dollars (PPP calculation).
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> >> Which one is richer? The free-er one.
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> >> Freedom is not a luxury.
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> > South Korea had its dictator****p, and like the Chinese, the South
> > Koreans would flee South Korea given the chance. =A0Many educated
South
> > Koreans come to the U.S. to work as house cleaners.
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> Comparatively free-er, at all times. And substantially richer.
Let them do it their ways. Maybe they know something we don't know.
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