So far we have the disturbing claims of one of sides [Hotovely] at the meeting. We need to understand what the other side YouTube/Google think they agreed to, and what they do in practice.
While a lot of very good sense in what you say, I take issue with you when you say "Gaddafi was behind the blowing up of a civilian aircraft over Britain".
Just read some of the voluminous reports published by Professor Robert Black (the architect of the Lockerbie trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands), on his blog post link to lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk; or the judgement of scottish criminal review commission - and it is rapidly obvious that the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is unsound.
With his conviction being unsound, it is less obvious (though not impossible) that Gadaffi is implicated.
Not-withstanding all the good points above - a case can be made for demography. Look at the predictions made in New Scientist in May 2012 in the article: "Egypt: Arab Spring could be wasted in youthful nations" at link to newscientist.com
It references work by the demographer Richard Cincotta which notes in summary that "Autocracies with a median population age of over 30 years old are most likely to become liberal democracies – Egypt may need a few years to mature ... If the pattern holds, Tunisia - with a median age of 30 - is the Arab Spring country most likely to hold a democracy permanently. "
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So far we have the disturbing claims of one of sides [Hotovely] at the meeting. We need to understand what the other side YouTube/Google think they agreed to, and what they do in practice.
Well said
While a lot of very good sense in what you say, I take issue with you when you say "Gaddafi was behind the blowing up of a civilian aircraft over Britain".
Just read some of the voluminous reports published by Professor Robert Black (the architect of the Lockerbie trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands), on his blog post link to lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk; or the judgement of scottish criminal review commission - and it is rapidly obvious that the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is unsound.
With his conviction being unsound, it is less obvious (though not impossible) that Gadaffi is implicated.
Not-withstanding all the good points above - a case can be made for demography. Look at the predictions made in New Scientist in May 2012 in the article: "Egypt: Arab Spring could be wasted in youthful nations" at
link to newscientist.com
It references work by the demographer Richard Cincotta which notes in summary that "Autocracies with a median population age of over 30 years old are most likely to become liberal democracies – Egypt may need a few years to mature ... If the pattern holds, Tunisia - with a median age of 30 - is the Arab Spring country most likely to hold a democracy permanently. "
Thanks for the ongoing excellent work. It's good that you have a wide demographic.
Always a worthwhile read
David
[Scotland]