Mynamar Arrests Blogger for Government Bashing….Hmmm

Just wondering…How would bloggers from here fare in Myanmar? Let’s say George Bush was the president of Mynamar. Hmmm…a little sketchy to do some Bush bashing on your blog about George’s erroneously perceived “suppression of freedoms.”

Or even to just call him “dumb”…a favorite among Bush-hating blogger termanology. Hmmm…

This from Associated Press:

BANGKOK, Thailand — Myanmar’s junta has stepped up surveillance of the Internet, arresting one blogger who wrote about the stifling of free expression in the military-ruled nation, a media advocacy group said.

The blogger, Nay Myo Latt, was taken into custody in Yangon on Wednesday after writing about the suppression of freedoms following last fall’s crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations, Reporters Without Borders said.

Despite international condemnation and pressure following the demonstrations, there is little evidence that the junta is easing its repressive rule or moving closer to reconciliation with pro-democracy forces led by Suu Kyi.

The arrested blogger, a member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, owns three Internet cafes, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in a release seen Thursday… MORE

Blog Opens with ‘A Bright Light’

Blog debuts with devotionals from well-known Christian authors, blogger’s own observations

This from Alexander:

A BRIGHT LIGHT

Suddenly, there was a bright light in the cell, and an angel of the Lord stood before Peter. The angel tapped him on the side to awaken him and said, “Quick! Get up!” And the chains fell off his wrists. – Acts 12:7 NLT

In the late summer of 1994, I knew something was wrong. For a few days, my brain was trying to digest a court order given to me as the result of a driving under the influence arrest. I was to pay a fine and attend 20 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for the offense.

Sometime between when that court order was in my hand and my first AA meeting in early September I had an awakening… a life changing one.

I counted my failures, the ones that really stung. I had just filed for a divorce in a marriage that lasted just half a year. Not long before that, I had filed a personal bankruptcy. However, it was another inventory item of my life that really convinced me that I had come to the end of myself: I was uncomfortable inside my own skin. Anxiety was drowning me.

That was three strikes against me I reckoned and it was time to face life somehow differently. I didn’t know how to or what to change, but I knew something had to be done.

I had reasoned that the AA meetings couldn’t hurt, maybe they were the beginning of a solution. Maybe attending the meetings were the starting point of finding what I could become. And maybe… just maybe, becoming someone that didn’t hurt so bad inside.

The chains were beginning to fall off my wrists.

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Alexander is a writer and blogger in the spiritual battlefield. Find devotionals from well-known Christian authors, including devotionals by Alexander on his blog.

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