Your article demonstrates the first rule of facing down oppression: ridicule the tyrants’ many aliases. Give them no room to move in the light of day. Give them no rest. Drag them through the streets of public condemnation. Look at all the little piggies, telling piggy lies!
Call Evil by its name. Contrary to myth, you do not give it strength—Buddha said so. Indeed you deny it the refuge of cowards: propaganda.
Evil is, and will act whether called out or not, but surely less so than when allowed to have its own name in silent apathy.
While we may or may not survive what we do not see before us on the path, it is what we choose to ignore that will kill us every time.
We will not allow that. We refuse to assume the position.
Thank you for not bowing down, for not assuming the position of appeasement towards these vicious, murdering tyrants. Call them by their name: Worthless Scourge.
What a gas to experience Real Journalism.

2) I am an editor with The Burma News Ladder. Launched by James Boyce during the initial junta crackdown, around 25 days ago, we have quickly become almost the largest HUMAN aggregated News Site for all articles on Burma. I just posted this article. Please check us out and join in the work. The site is fairly self-explanatory.

3) Here’s a letter I sent to Al Gore and have been sending around in the hopes of generating momentum for all the Noble Laureates to go to Burma Now and together support their imprisoned fellow laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Dear Albert Gore,
Congratulations on being awarded such a high honor!

Can you now, as your first order of business, call President Carter and the other Nobel laureates to gather together in Burma and demand en mass to meet with fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi?
You must be prepared to remain in Burma until she is released from 12 years of imprisonment, the monks are released from torture, the people are free to assemble and Democracy is restored.

This is a situation which surely requires direct and timely action from the Nobel Peace Prize community. We must be able to respond faster than this or we will forever be on the defensive against such oppression.

You guys have the world watching and need to strike now.
I know that you must have each others telephone numbers.

Aside from her years under house arrest and in prison, as a fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is under intense pressure by the brutal junta to meet with them under their conditions, and therefore legitimize their massacre of the people and monks. The junta continues to spin and deny this heinous assault on human rights with rallies and expensive PR.

What is the point of having the Peace Prize if y’all can’t come to the aid of a fellow laureate who is imprisoned for being democratically elected?

If this illegal junta can get away with this then why can’t any other regime imprison any one of you any time, any place, for however long they want, as evidenced with Aung San Suu Kyi?
If you don’t believe me then go and ask them. Demand a meeting with your fellow Nobel Laureate. Now.

Please gather together, all of you Nobel Laureates, and go to Burma and support Aung San Suu Kyi,
demand justice for the people there, before we have to demand justice for all of you over here.

I don’t mean to sound flippant but if you guy’s can’t stand up to this now, then we are all lost…Foxtrot Uniform Bravo Alpha Romeo!

Thank you again for your hard work,
om mani padme hum,
écrasez l’infâme
from the back hand path

Like Sam. I also feel helpless and as if I were watching a murder in excrudiating slow motion.

Th silence is a scream!