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RE: Why good people have bad politics
One more thing. I bet some people in Turkey wished they had a constitution right about now. I mean I assume they have but not a good one ...
One more thing. I bet some people in Turkey wished they had a constitution right about now. I mean I assume they have but not a good one ...
They do have a constitution but they also have a Padishah who does not give a fig about a piece of paper because, to use his words, he is "a martyr for Allah" and, thus, he feels he has every right to suppress, arrest, brutalize, and kill people because they do not agree with his Islamic madness. Turkish "modern democracy" was always a joke, but what we still call "the West" chose to ignore the facts in favor of "geopolitical reasons" and "security interests." Right now, the Padishah is dancing a dervish's whirling dance around freakin' idiots like Merkel and the Brussels mandarins... because of that early choice...