The million dollar question: Would you rather be a free sex maniac or a slave to the government?
My answer: As the government will screw us anyway, it's better to be a maniac than a sex slave.
On June 12, Turkey will go to the ballot for
one of the most crucial elections of our time.
It is crucial, because AKP, the ruling party, may get the required majority in the parliament to create a new constitution solely by itself.
You can't know what their own constitution would be like.
Will it be the complete package of AKP's advanced democracy?
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On August 22, more than 10.000 websites that Turks are already banned to access will start multiplying geometrically.
Imagine: Even the word "banned" will be banned from all Turkish domain names then.
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Naturally, even
TUSIAD, the association of Turkish employers who supported AKP in its first years in power, reacted against these Orwellian measures of the government.
Umit Boyner, TUSIAD's head, had told that the Internet filter was an intervention against freedoms. Bulent Arinc, AKP's Vice Prime Minister,
has answered her today:
"I've never heard a critical comment from Umit Boyner, regarding the economic policies of the government. She tries to find other topics to criticize the government. The constitution gives the government certain missions, including the protection of the family and the youth. We want to raise healthy people. There must be measures against websites that may turn people into sex maniacs. That's what we are doing."
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All the "liberals" and other external AKP supporters who voted "Yes" in
the latest referendum are quite while such neo-fascist statements and practices keep coming from the government.
Meanwhile, Serpil Timuray, Vodafone's CEO in Turkey, has reportedly announced that they "supported the internet filter." After the huge reaction in the social media, Vodafone published
an official statement, claiming that Timuray's words have been misinterpreted. In the same statement, Vodafone emphasized that they support free communication, "but like all other telecom companies, they must follow the law."
Let's remember:
"Following the law" was what big corporations, whether German ones like Krupp or American ones like IBM, during the Holocaust era were also resorting as an excuse for their collaboration with the Nazis.
Ironically, Vodafone somehow made all websites to delete prior statements of Timuray.
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All in all, this is the defining moment of Islamism in Turkey, just like it was for Nazism in 1930s' Germany and fascism in 1920s' Italy, as it grew to the threshold of absolute power, thanks to the collaboration of certain elements of finance capital and local "intelligentsia" in a suitable national and global conjuncture. If AKP will be able to write a new constitution, replacing the parliamentary democracy with presidential system, then brace for real 'change.'
There is no need for Vodafone to be concerned, though, as such multinational companies are chameleons unlike us, humans, as they are able to fit the new environment even in dictatorships or -in worst scenario- migrate to more suitable climates. And the international mass media which is being controlled by such conglomerates may keep praising AKP like they have been doing so -as long as AKP doesn't criticize the United States and Israel.
The people who must be concerned are us, Turks and especially Turkish journalists, probably including sex maniacs. In this regard, being anti-AKP is not unprofessional partisanship for a journalist in Turkey. In fact, it is a duty for all journalists. The alternative is being a sex slave.
One, two, three... More sex maniacs!
