tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post8261997859606105381..comments2024-03-24T11:22:15.548+00:00Comments on Lustig's Letter: "I am Peter Greste"Robin Lustighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578195216460807588noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post-43738259846415518112014-06-25T11:39:26.943+00:002014-06-25T11:39:26.943+00:00You are quite right Robin - all the things you sa...You are quite right Robin - all the things you say in your cover letter. Jim KABLEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07339366859747643036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post-27055426745632430322014-06-24T10:56:12.935+00:002014-06-24T10:56:12.935+00:00Its a pity that courts also tend to get involved i...Its a pity that courts also tend to get involved in politics. I wonder to how al sisi is treating the issue despite him being someone who promised to respect the rule of law, human rights and promote good governance. Am a young upcoming broadcast journalist and what happened to Peter Gretse and friends isn't only threat to media freedom in Egypt rather whole of africa and entire world. Human rights bodies are saying the sentencing "defies logic sense and any semblance of justice" which i quite agree, journalism i snot a crime . George Mkandawirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post-75278436496619501932014-06-23T15:03:47.656+00:002014-06-23T15:03:47.656+00:00You are so right, Robin. What has happened in Egyp...You are so right, Robin. What has happened in Egypt is a tragedy. Why do so many politicians, even when elected to power in believably fair elections, then behave in a 'winner takes all' manner, as if the losers, all those people who didn't vote for the winner, somehow lose their citizenship, their right to be represented & have their voice heard? It paves the way for dictators. <br /><br />And why are we in the West so politically and historically stupid? Can't we see that, when a country is ruled by a dictator, there is usually a reason for it? It may not be a good reason; we may wish the country was better governed, its people less downtrodden. But 'taking out the bad guy' is not a plausible foreign policy. <br /><br />We declare ourselves shocked when the pressure-cooker whose lid we've just removed boils over. Yet that is what we do, again and again, from Mossadeq to Assad, either through proxies or, increasingly, ourselves, judging who the bad guys are from our own narrow perspective. My own view is, this is 'global politics', the concomitant of the global economy invented by the inequality engine we (almost never) call capitalism.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03797515953397067968noreply@blogger.com