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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700045434/Hillary-Clinton-says-vise-of-intolerant-governments-is-crushing-global-activists.html

Intolerant governments across the globe are "slowly crushing" activist and advocacy groups that play an essential role in the development of democracy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.

She cited a broad range of countries where "the walls are closing in" on civic organizations such as unions, religious groups, rights advocates and other nongovernmental organizations that press for social change and shine a light on governments' shortcomings.

Among those she named were Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Venezuela, China and Russia.

"Some of the countries engaging in these behaviors still claim to be democracies," Clinton said at an international conference on the promotion of democracy and human rights. "Democracies don't fear their own people. They recognize that citizens must be free to come together, to advocate and agitate."

Clinton's speech came at the opening of a 10th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Community of Democracies, which has 16 members and is meant to forge international consensus on ways to support and promote democracy.

She recommended that the organization set up an independent means of monitoring repressive measures against social advocacy groups, and that the U.N. Human Rights Council do more to protect civil society. She announced that the U.S. would contributed $2 million to support the work of embattled nongovernmental groups.

Poland was a fitting setting for Clinton's address. The country escaped from decades of totalitarianism in the downfall of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in the early 1990s — thanks largely to the efforts of the Polish labor movement, Solidarity — whose founder, Lech Walesa, was in the audience for the speech. Poland was holding a presidential runoff election Sunday.

Upon her arrival from Ukraine, Clinton laid a wreath and paid her respects at the Katyn Cross, a memorial to the nearly 100 Poles killed in an April plane crash in Russia en route to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet massacre of Polish POWs in Katyn forest. Among those killed in the plane crash was Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski.

Clinton also toured the World War II-era Schindler Factory Museum, which captures in stark images and artifacts the suffering of Jews at the hands of Nazi Germany. Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, is credited with saving the lives of hundreds of Jews by bringing them to his factory in Krakow from the nearby Plaszow concentration camp.

Clinton spoke in somber tones of the haunting symbols inside the museum.

"We see here the two realities of the Holocaust," she said — the privation and slaughter of Jews, as well as the heroic efforts by some to save them from Plaszow.

She said the Obama administration would seek congressional approval of a $15 million donation, over five years, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to help finance an endowment to preserve and safeguard the remains of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. An estimated 1.1 million victims perished at the camp.


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It's frightening to see free speech and activism being crushed by government. This needs to become a front and center issue. Glad Hillary addressed it.

BTW - The US record on free speech is not as great as it used to be. We're seeing efforts currently to curtail the information to which the public has access regarding the BP oil gusher. And, as we know, in 2008, Obots worked their a**es off to shut Hillary supporters down, and with implicit permission of The One.

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The obots didn't shut me down. Or any of the fine folks who come to this forum. It's been two years, but we're still here and we're not going anywhere!

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Jen the Michigander wrote:

The obots didn't shut me down. Or any of the fine folks who come to this forum. It's been two years, but we're still here and we're not going anywhere!



Right!

It is sickening though, how little concern Obama had about his own supporters preventing people from voting at caucus polling places.  Not just the Black Panthers - which was, btw, a huge travesty, which will go unprosecuted -but other thug supporters who blocked doorways in polling places, and pulled all sorts of underhanded crap to deny Hillary supporters their right to vote.

Then we have the RBC which robbed American's of their votes.

In, 2008, a lot of things happened that made this country look more like one of the countries Hillary was referring to in her speech, than the America I grew up in.

 

 



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A little off topic, but I am starting to recieve email and wonder what you all think.

One is from Progess Network USA.........It starts off saying it was established and funded to fullfill Hillary Clinton's vision for America. They are hitting a list of Hillary's supporters,
and I know nothing about this new PAC group.

The other is title "Big Step for Health Care Reform: healthcare.gov They go on and on
about Hillary on Democracy..............and want me to become a member.

The way I see it there is no democracy, it got tossed under the bus in 2008.





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Hi Building, I saw something about the group on Face Book, and planned to check it out, but haven't had time yet. Wish I could be of more help.

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I think these dems are using Hillary's name rather Obama to gather support for Obama.

And I just read where Obama made a recess appointment with Dr. Don Berwick to head up
medicare/Medicaid, and he is a big supporter of rationed health care..........So I am not interested in becoming a member healthcare.gov

And Not so sure about Progress Network............just have to many who think Obama is their hero, while using Hillary name to get into their membership.

Nothing new here.

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Building 4112 wrote:

I think these dems are using Hillary's name rather Obama to gather support for Obama.

And I just read where Obama made a recess appointment with Dr. Don Berwick to head up medicare/Medicaid, and he is a big supporter of rationed health care..........So I am not interested in becoming a member healthcare.gov

And Not so sure about Progress Network............just have to many who think Obama is their hero, while using Hillary name to get into their membership.

Nothing new here.

Yep, I agree with you Building.  Some are Obama supporters and some are staunch far right advocates who are creaming the Hillary crop. Helps to be cautious. I am not joining either of those sites.

 



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