Subj : Re: BSG
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 13:34:57

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

>  The military has got a long history of murder, torture and rape of 
> civilians who have the unfortunate habit of either speaking up for a 
> truly democratic state, are a member of the minority Kurdish ethnic
> group or just piss them off by there very existence.
>  http://www.khrp.org/
> http://www.mtcp.co.uk/campaigns.php?id=7
>  You'll like the Mark Thomas guy, think Moore but funnier and more 
> politically astute.
>  Of course the civilian goverment is also culpable but you have to 
> remember that there were military coups in 60,71,80 and heavy
> military involvement in the 97 coup, but that one was ok because it
> got rid of the Islamic government. Of course this doesn't even begin
> to touch on Cyprus and the invasion by Turkish forces in 74.
>  Hardly the secular liberal government model that you want to follow
>  now is it?
>  Ted
> 

I would think that any military that acts on its own accord and is not 
under the control of a civilian government is only one power hungry guy 
away from siezing total control.

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