[lit-ideas] Re: Yahoo! Traitors with Clinton Sidebar
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:45:57 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/21/2005 2:18:32 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Yahoo! Traitors with Clinton Sidebar
>
>
> extract from Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant blog at
> http://www.edrants.com/
>
>
> When You?re a Fink, You?re a Fink All the Way
>
> If you have a Yahoo email account and you eventually find yourself
> writing about something that might be considered inexplicably
> dangerous (if not now, then perhaps in the not-too-distant future),
> you may want to ensure that your personal information is fabricated.
> Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has confirmed that Yahoo provided
> journalist Shi To?s private information to Chinese authorities. The
> journalist was then sentenced to ten years in prison. What was Shi?s
> crime? He dared to spell out media restrictions in place within
> China. Former President Bill Clinton also weighed in at an Internet
> forum, saying, ?The internet, no matter what political system a
> country has, and our political system is different from yours, the
> internet is having significant political and social consequences and
> they cannot be erased.? He then went into a panegyric about how none
> of this had any negative effects on e-commerce.
>
> It?s good to know that in the Clinton and Yang vision of the
> Internet, business comes first and that political extradition and
> freedom of speech is as expungable as a spam message.
>
You're talking about the Clinton Global Initiative where Clinton has pulled
together hundreds of heads of state from around the world and committed
them to doing something positive. You want him to run to China with a
baseball bat and start smashing away. You think that's going to bring
change. Clinton was an effective president because he's charismatic and he
charms people and he knows how to get things done. He understands that
there's no way anyone can go into China and change their system of
government, but by rubbing elbows through business, making friends with the
West, eventually they may change. Doing it Bush's way, he'd run in and
start a war, make a mess and head for vacation. Clinton uses diplomacy to
get change, and I suspect that bothers you because your buddy Bush doesn't
have a clue what diplomacy is.
Andy Amago
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