Six years ago today on Ironies....

A long posting on US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld concluded: For the only recently repressed countries of Eastern Europe the leaders of Western Europe can only offer a return to pointless bureaucracy, stifling controls of almost every aspect of daily life, corruption up to the highest level of governance, and a steady and continuing erosion of those basic rights in Rumsfeld's list once held dear particularly in Britain namely:- Checks and Balances, Freedom of Speech, Individual rights, Equal justice under law, Protecting minorities against the tyranny of the majority, and Ultimately a government that is chosen by and answers to the people posted by Martin at 4/16/2003 04:48:00 PM