” You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. “
” That’s whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through – whenever they are in the news, that’s when they exist. If you don’t see them they don’t exist. “
” Someone has said that nations have interests, they don’t have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. “
” Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. “
” On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. “
” More and more people are able to access information – thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. “
” In terms of the idea of long-term occupation – I have been reading a little bit more about this period – and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren’t aware of. “
” In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. “
” Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up – with that heroic Delta force – people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment. “
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