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[dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Subject: Re: The abject poverty of the Burmese people

To Heiko and others, the point of my posting was to highlight the
incredible disparity
between the exploiters and masters, and the downtrodden slaves and
supporters of oppression. Anyone working in Burma today affiliated with
the regime, is supporting that regime, and extending its presence and
duration, for whatever reason, to get on with their meager poor life, to
take a bribe, to further cheap false values and corruption,and it is
sad, wrong and i condemn it. unless of course they are working in the
interest of democracy, to further the cause of democracy, from within,
gathering information, building contacts, underground networks,
penetrating the structure, finding its weakest points and seeint it
sabatoging itself, this corrupt regime, letting it destroy itself. of
course, the regime calls anyone and anything a threat, a terrorist, but
this is silly, as we all know the regime is destroying itself and is
bent on self destruction, and so is itself the purveyor of state
terrorism. everyone knows this. 

but of course, people who talk only to themselves and their crony
friends, only hear the same old tune, over and over and over again.

this is why to help the regime destroy itself, its good to give it a
little push... 
for three dollars a month, surely anyone could do this.

if they heeded the call to live without fear, and courage.

This is the only way. There can be no change or revolution without
destroying this regime and putting it in the dustbin of history. 

Heiko Schaefer wrote:
> 
> Dear Dawn Star,
> 
> please don't mistake all government workers or civil servants as
> pro-SPDC. Some reasons for taking 3 Dollars are reduced rice prices,
> sometimes a bit more access to news, extrem easy work and the
> oppurtunity to take bribes which enhance the 3 Dollar to 30 Dollars a
> month.
> 
> There are a lot of people who take a job in the government just for this
> reasons. I would not say, all of them are pro-SPDC by heart. Many of
> them pretend and take such jobs just for the opportunity to get a few
> privileges more.
> 
> The people we need to take care of, are the people who are working in
> the ministries and there also not the secretaries, but the decision
> makers.
> 
> BTW: Officially a general is earning 50 Dollars a month :-)
> BTW2: My wife was one of the 3-Dollar earners (1500 Kyat). She was an
> assistant lecturer at the RIT. She took part in the 1988 demonstrations
> and is now a democracy activist.
> 
> Regards
> Heiko
> 
> Dawn Star wrote:
> >
> > How many people does it take to run a dictatorship? What do government
> > workers do, at 3 dollars a month? Is there any work? Or its just a
> > title, like a movie ticket, to say you've been there, party member, part
> > of the government machine at 3 dollars a month?
> >
> > People around the world are shaking their heads at the Burmese enslaved
> > population. It used to be said, by socialist workers, that working for
> > wages, was slavery. Well, three dollars a month, when the head of
> > Merrill Lynch, the banking company that pushed Total Fina to takeover
> > Elf, makes over a hundred million dollars a year, there is definitely
> > something very insanely upside down about the passivity, the indolence,
> > the indifference, the soulless, wanton lost character about the burmese
> > slaves.
> >
> > Johnny Rebel of the Student Warriors tried to shake them up. Perhaps
> > there is nothing inside to shake up. I don't know what has happened to
> > these people who think life is worth living at 3 dollars a month.
> > Perhaps they are just waiting for eternity. If thats the case, they
> > might just as well be dead. And take up the fight, to live, or die.
> >
> > Nothing less when they got nothing to lose.
> >
> > Think about it.
> >
> > By the way, the head of the money trail, one of them, chairman of
> > Merrill Lynch, DAvid H Komansky, with a sagging chin and bulging neck so
> > fat you wonder if he has a neck at all, or maybe his face might just
> > dissolve into one fat blob of excess and greed,
> > says this:
> >
> > "Now that we are entering a new century, and a new millennium, I find
> > myself more optimistic than ever before in my life."
> >
> > And he doesnt give a shit about Burma. And neither does Total Fina, or
> > the French government of Chirac, Jospin, and their rich business
> > friends.  Think about that too.
> >
> > In the future, no one is really going to give a damn about the Burmese
> > people if they dont fight for their own liberty. The junta is getting so
> > much money pumped in through the back door pipeline. This drug
> > production is definitely NOT going away. You can expect it to double
> > soon. There is so much money in drugs, and money laundering.
> >
> > Until there is a genuine revolution in the spirit, until the people take
> > up their will and disarm the bastards, its three dollars a month, or
> > less.
> >
> > Nobody can put a price on a human life. Not for three dollars.
> >
> > ds*
> 
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