Turkish model faces jail term for 'insulting Erdogan'

Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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She quoted and linked to a poem satirizing Erdogan.


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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you. :-) Couple of misspellings in there (hell plunder is missing the apostrophe, tho he's sure to make this hell on earth; also the first "fools" should be "tools") but sometimes the muse hits.
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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 2 months ago
    My post to that page...

    ANY "leader" who can't stand criticism is not a "leader."

    As I've said so many times before about SO many such "leaders"... You can force people to Appear To Show You Respect, but if you can't Earn Their Respect, You Are s FAILURE."

    Erdogan is merely another such failure.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago
    Let me make an uneducated guess. Turkey is muslim. If so, this explains it all. Muslim religion is just ignorant and controlling.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed. One day at Ford Hall Forum somebody asked Ayn Rand what right she, as an immigrant from Russia, had to lecture Americans on Americanism. She said that she had deliberately chosen to be an American. What, she asked, had the questioner done to be one, other than merely having been born here?

    Rand wrote, as far as I know, only one book in Russia, and it was a celebration of Hollywood. She certainly could not have written AS there.

    Still, we have hundred of excellent wry jokes from or about Soviet Russia. "In Soviet Russia, Party go to YOU." One of those jokes is now our Commissar-in-Chief.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 2 months ago
    Poor old Erdogan, humiliated he feels,
    As if he were walking on banana peels
    Those who write about him, he's decreed as "scum",
    Where's his Cajones? Perhaps he should grow some.

    Of course, we expect, in the U.S. of A,
    His comrade, Obama, will follow his way.
    For presently, 'tis true, we can speak as we wishes,
    He'd prefer those that do would go "sleep with the fishes".

    While that ol' constitution, it guarantees our rights,
    Repealing said document is his number one fight.
    He'll impoverish, hell plunder, he'll make us all tramps
    And then send us away to those ol' FEMA camps.

    And those in his lock-step, those toadies and fools,
    Will sooner find out they've been all played for fools.
    For to them O will promise,, will lie and cajole
    for in the end the will all join us, down in the hole.

    For that is the way of his "Power elite"
    To make us ALL grovel, to beg at their feet
    Until at the end, like an ass he will bray,
    "There is nothing else but the Obama Way"

    Over run by suffering, starvation, and blight,
    this once great country will go dark in the night.


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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago
    So much for Turkish free speech.
    What amuses (frightens?) me about the citizens of Turkey, and their ideological cousins here in the USA is that they are unable to recognize bullshit when they see it, feel it, or smell it. You can rub B.S. all over their faces and they'll say it smells like roses. How is that possible?
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 9 years, 2 months ago
    Wow. Our pres admires Erdogan, I bet. Wishes he could do the same. He would probably start with Rudi Giuliani and CJ, the kid in Texas who questioned BO's love of country.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    While I enjoy creative literature, Snezzy, and am a major fan of the discrete and oblique verbal jab...I would forgo those pleasures in exchange for not needing to say something other than directly 'what is on your mind'.

    Jan
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  • Posted by Esceptico 9 years, 2 months ago
    Keep in mind France arrested people for saying the wrong things the very day of the marches supporting Charlie Hedo. Free speech if you say the right things
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You can't bring yourself to upper case the p.... I bring myself to call him anything but bo. But you have to wonder . Once it's gone.. what's next? The Muslim brotherhood? With 70 percent of Americans in sleep mode anything could happen.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks, Possum.
    The concept of political censorship by the Marxists now at our government's helm just irks a reaction out of me.
    Guess that makes me a reactionary. Ha! Ha!
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 2 months ago
    those MEN of the muslim bent prove on a daily basis that they are an insult to the human race; but then again I believe they are the missing links.
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