Letters to the Editor
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LeCastor
"Protest" From Morocco to Pakistan, every day the government such as it is, shuts this newspaper or that one, locks up the editors and publishers and such. Happens a great deal in Sahel and southern Africa too. And then after a few months, they sort of let everyone out of jail, ignore them for a while until the next crackdown. Doesn't anyone remember that in Iran, every 18 months or so there's a student protest movement that comes and goes mysteriously? That's almost certainly a put-up by the regime to display their 'freedoms'. Jordan does that a great deal too with their so called Parliament that has zero real power. The loyal opposition decides what to protest about, the monarch or mullah or whathave you agrees to 'dialog' with them and in a month or two it goes nowhere. Otherwise they'd have to address real issues and real change which of course is anathema to them.