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That isn’t quite how things work in the Philippines, the money is great if you want to go to the pub or buy some new shoes, or if little Gary has a cold, it is not great if you need a heart operation or a landslide has just destroyed your house, farm and everything you ever owned. Also there are a few places where those handing out the money don’t just take your word for it that you will vote for a specific candidate and things can turn nasty.
The point I am really trying to make is that democracy is a funny thing and one that can’t be exported like do-it-yourself furniture. It is not just a simple case of following the instructions on the box and you will end up with a beautiful uniform product wherever you are in the world. America spent 50 years in the Philippines, a relatively peaceful, predominately Christian country with historical links to Europe and although nominally democratic it is a long, long way from what democratic idealists must wish. Of course I don’t disagree that democracy is a great thing, I hope that it does spread throughout the world, but I believe that, in many ways as Christianity was spread before it, it will take on the shape of the country in which it finds itself, and that this is not necessarily a bad thing. After all we are not making furniture we are shaping the lives of millions of people, and don’t we think that they should be shaping their own lives?
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meddahi | Sep 11th, 2007
Poet self Mdahi holiday Tuesday, September 11, 2007
This poem from long Sea
If the language of the nation cared / / crafts distinguish good meteor
Given the culture of advanced science / / Ftnejo affairs of Alanattab
If developed mentality will rise tomorrow / / boy sterility affects of depression
How stewardship which Bamth / / sponsored order subscription
Krakb boat waves hampered / / grandparents above them much tortured
Impressed with the boy wonder people gospel / / cynically Emsegha Balaatap
If one apart from the Humane / / broadside he fillings insults
We have even imagined of thirst / / Mirage pool oasis of drink
Seen from the shadows and Arva Nkhilha / / What is the only Hage and Mirage
Ahatha and had been reflected from the sand / / Freet them from approaching
The creative writer does not have salute / / platforms nation despite Admonition
As defined on that might distinguish / / mixing between Alemtemen book
The ignorance in the land by the camp / / As far tents night fog
Why not support the pupils before / / perceptions lost in vain in the sand
Why not appreciate the loving hearts / / flowers, which disperse Despite the Odds
Our guide Rahika of Shahid / / Itrishveh after it is played
What poetry only source of water had heart / / governance which came correctness
Every question find answer / / tomorrow after the effort of young minds
Each talents can not / / unswerving desire of attraction
Attiya talents mocked before / / embryos to be Balantjab
That Fadlallah; before / / one sees blesses approaching
Nor heeded including discouraging Mwahba / / go to their Kalshab
This new poem containing the 40th house of poetry balanced Ahdiha to the whole world
Estimated literary works of the human mind it is estimated that respects creative minds
In all the critical areas that benefit all of humankind
The poetry good reason to Makarim, morality, love and tolerance among the people
He felt that should Redgrave's even a small gesture of organizations dealing with global literature and I hope my critics and poets that do little
To Mohpti Poetic which suffer from lack of funding because I have the material obtained at the Postgraduate Certificate enable me to work there - I do this heavy talent
You appreciate that very well, I need to continue to aid logical literary
I do not want palaces and tall high-class cars
But I want to recognize my Khar and some material assistance
Because the debt accumulated me Is Assistant Thank poet self
Mdahi FEAST
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