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sabrina 1

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31. You're working hard to discredit a country which under the current president
Mon Jul 2, 2012, 01:19 PM
Jul 2012

would never have arrested Joe Wilson and probably would have supported him in fact.

There are hundreds of thousands of Sarah Palin types and even more Rushbo types in Ecuador, yet none of them have been arrested.

The police were taking bribes from a foreign nation. What would this government do to public employees who were taking bribes from a foreign nation?

Maybe you should check out Ecuador's Right Wing Corporate Controlled media before assuming wrongly, that Correa would arrest the Right Wing Blowhards who fill their airwaves, slamming the left every day.

What's puzzling to me about your attacks on this country is that their government is now the quivalant of what would be a Progressive Democratic Government here. In doing so your are supporting the far Right Wing elements in Ecuador.

Correa eg supports the LGBT and Women's rights in a country that is 95% Catholic. His open support for minorities is well known and has paved the way for Latin America to move forward these issues.

But if want Ecuador back in the hands of the regressive right wing, that is truly very sad indeed. To want to set back the clock for Latin America to the days where Progressives were tortured and disappeared all with the approval of Kissinger and his ilk.

Me, I'm a democrat and I support every effort being made by Latin America to make sure those elements never return to power and that the region continues to progress as it has been doing over the past decade.

This Government should be ecstatic over the progress made in South America and should be encouraging the freedom and democracy established over the past few years, IF they mean it when they claim to support democracy.

Instead we are allies with some of the worst dictatorships in the world, such as Bahrain, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia while continuing to try to destabilize real democracies like Ecuador. Maybe you support that too, I don't know, but I support Progressive Democracy here and elsewhere.

"..because our country is a peaceful territory committed to justice and truth” Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2012 #1
So true. :( IcyMint Jul 2012 #24
Some info treestar Jul 2012 #2
I guess you know that any report on human rights by the US State Dept. on other sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #4
I knew someone would do that treestar Jul 2012 #5
The US still operates through its rightwing contacts sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #6
Ecuador is not a good place to hold up as the pinnacle of human rights treestar Jul 2012 #8
Actually most Latin American countries, now struggling to overcome their sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #10
However, looking at the Amnesty report, we learn treestar Jul 2012 #11
The US is much better? girl gone mad Jul 2012 #12
Indeed. Routine torture in prisons, massive numbers imprisoned, prosecution of whistleblowers, Luminous Animal Jul 2012 #14
Nothing like described in my prior post treestar Jul 2012 #18
Protesters in the US have been arrested for going to a Bush rally wearing sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #23
Joe Wilson could have been arrested in Ecuador treestar Jul 2012 #29
You're working hard to discredit a country which under the current president sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #31
There is power to arrest people who insult the President there treestar Jul 2012 #35
Ecuador's laws re libel and slander are similar to those in the UK. sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #39
Nobody has called for his death treestar Jul 2012 #40
So you admit he is correct when he claims the US is attempting to prosecute him. sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #43
UN Secretary General, Ban commends Ecuador’s efforts on democracy, human rights, environment sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #15
Amnesty is Wrong? treestar Jul 2012 #19
They are not infallible. sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #22
But the US government is completely fallible treestar Jul 2012 #28
You said that, not I. sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #30
Huh? Have you ever admitted this country ever did anything right? treestar Jul 2012 #36
Yes, many times, all the time. What this country did right sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #37
Meant to add, and ask, who are these police? The US funded ones sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #17
The US is at fault? treestar Jul 2012 #20
No, he has the power, as does any leader of a Democratic nation, to hold accountable sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #21
The POTUS does not have any such power treestar Jul 2012 #27
Occupy fared well in the US?? Are you serious? In a coordinated sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #32
I am merely telling you what the state department and Amnesty observed treestar Jul 2012 #34
Sigh, the 'Nato Three' still in jail, accused of terrorism sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #38
If that is true and not exaggeration treestar Jul 2012 #41
No link, so I don't know where you got that. sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #42
+1 nt MADem Jul 2012 #25
This is a great interview Assange did with Correa sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #3
Thanks for adding the link, sabrina. I've watched all of Assange's shows. Luminous Animal Jul 2012 #7
Interesting link. freshwest Jul 2012 #9
Feinstein renews calls for Assange to be prosecuted for espionage. Luminous Animal Jul 2012 #13
It's a disgrace, really. Elected of officials, especially democrats, sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #16
+1 KoKo Jul 2012 #33
Du rec. Nt xchrom Jul 2012 #26
DU rec and a link you will probably find interesting: inna Jul 2012 #44
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