It took them one year to “research and enact a youth strategy” and what do they come out with? What are their recommendations? Those protectors of freedoms and free-thought?
1. Censor the internet
2. Censor satellite television
3. Ban youths (under 21) from entering hotels, bars and discos
Go figure.
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The parliament of restrictions
Ahhh yes! Nothing like trying to discourage negative behavior by driving it underground and opening it up for illegal activity. Anybody ever here of the failure of prohibition in the US?
Aren’t there any educated members of parliament who could expand on the reasons for undesired activities and develop a way to replace them with positive alternatives?
Salaam,
PM
The parliament of restrictions
Poop, I can’t read it. Is there a translation for the report out there. Just out of curiosity, are there minimal requirements in terms of education and experience to become a member of parliament?
The parliament of restrictions
Even worse than either these ideas or proposed restrictions to the right to assembly, is the legislation on political societies currently going through parliament.
The law’s going to be totally unworkable, threatening as it does anyone who doesn’t support the 2002 amendments with life imprisonment. Presumably the MPs have allocated a budget for the crash prison building programme necessary to house the tens of thousands of Al Wefaq and NDA members who are going to be spending the rest of their days sewing mail bags.
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[quote]Just out of curiosity, are there minimal requirements in terms of education and experience to become a member of parliament? [/quote]
I doubt there are hard and fast rules about qualifications for office, but here are the effectual ones
1- Must be educated beyond their intelligence. This would explain why MPs with primary school intellects have somehow held the reins of legislative business
2- Must have no foresightedness beyond the tips of their nose
3- Must be willing to cut off said noses (which they cannot see beyond) to spite their own faces
4- Must be fully versed in the status quo, and ONLY the status quo, ESPECIALLY if it is the status quo favorable to whomever happens to national patron du jour
5- Must not have any conscience about betraying the voting public
6- Must have the inability to discuss even the most trivial of matters without enflaming religious, ethnic and social sensitivities
7- Must put Jerry Springer to shame in the process of enflaming said sensitivities
8- Must have criminal, financial and social misdeeds on record so
a- they can protect those up the chain with dirtier hands
b- they can get good mileage out of the immunity law
9- Must have no concept of the public good
10- Must have full knowledge of economic principles, so they can blatantly violate every last one (You may think that this sort of is incompatible with point no. 1, but even a third grader knows that you can’t spend money that you don’t have)
Addendums are welcome!
[Modified by: Desert Island Boy (johnc) on November 18, 2004 01:56 PM]
The parliament of restrictions
Thanks a bunch, DIB. Just how bad is it right now? Do they actually enforce all of these restrictions? Sorry for all the questions, but I’m getting worried about all this conservatism and censorship that’s seems to have come from no where.
In many of the papers I’ve read, Bahrain seemed to be such a gem of moderacy and freedom. What the heck happened?