Comments on: Making the law http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/737/making-the-law/ Serpentine Percipience Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:22:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tom_Schmit http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/737/making-the-law/comment-page-1/#comment-2285 Tom_Schmit Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:06:05 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=737#comment-2285 Pierre and Lat We N Trash, At work and school and in the streets I see the changes. People want miracles and sudden answers from the sky. Unfortunately, it does not work that way. We also seem to think that some grand gesture from "the people" is needed to force govt to become responsive. Again, it is not needed (would be nice). This is a version of the old saying "think globally and act locally." Day by day, some people pound away at govt. We (Pro Futuro LV) for example go to every education ministry meeting or conference or whatever that we can to just say "we know." We know that the system sucks, that it is weakening Latvia and that there is a better way. This means that we make choices. Neither my wife nor I can/will take on more work that would take us out of our 3 room flat into the house we would like. Our kid doesn't get all the toys he wants and we eat lots of potatoes. That is our decision. We see that the future of LV (the place where our kid lives) depends on us being there day after day. No eloquent acts- just day after day, meeting after meeting, letter after letter, complaint after complaint. When we sink into the cynicism of tiredness and drunkness and helplesness the bastards win. I do not ever want my kid to see us concede. Pierre and Lat We N Trash,

At work and school and in the streets I see the changes. People want miracles and sudden answers from the sky. Unfortunately, it does not work that way. We also seem to think that some grand gesture from “the people” is needed to force govt to become responsive. Again, it is not needed (would be nice).

This is a version of the old saying “think globally and act locally.” Day by day, some people pound away at govt. We (Pro Futuro LV) for example go to every education ministry meeting or conference or whatever that we can to just say “we know.” We know that the system sucks, that it is weakening Latvia and that there is a better way. This means that we make choices. Neither my wife nor I can/will take on more work that would take us out of our 3 room flat into the house we would like. Our kid doesn’t get all the toys he wants and we eat lots of potatoes. That is our decision. We see that the future of LV (the place where our kid lives) depends on us being there day after day. No eloquent acts- just day after day, meeting after meeting, letter after letter, complaint after complaint.

When we sink into the cynicism of tiredness and drunkness and helplesness the bastards win. I do not ever want my kid to see us concede.

]]> By: foypi http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/737/making-the-law/comment-page-1/#comment-2282 foypi Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:15:08 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=737#comment-2282 Piedodiet. I misunderstood your statement and apologise if I offended you. You make a good point. My wife's family in Latvia are among the people you cite fighting for their survival and have little time to fight back to defend their rights. I guess Latvia needs a bigger and stronger middle class to take on this fight, but the current economic situation is making this difficult and the government, nevermind the oligarchs, is not helping at all. Pierre Piedodiet. I misunderstood your statement and apologise if I offended you. You make a good point. My wife’s family in Latvia are among the people you cite fighting for their survival and have little time to fight back to defend their rights. I guess Latvia needs a bigger and stronger middle class to take on this fight, but the current economic situation is making this difficult and the government, nevermind the oligarchs, is not helping at all.

Pierre

]]> By: Lat We N Trash http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/737/making-the-law/comment-page-1/#comment-2281 Lat We N Trash Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:28:53 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=737#comment-2281 "Freedom of speech is a luxury we can dispense with in times of crisis" -nope -i don't think that this is any kind of luxury what we can dispense or not -usually i m too busy, too tired or too drunk to care about another political cynicism from my government -actually most of the time i feel so helpless about it that only way seems to go and crash the windows of parliament building (but i can't do that because i've got a family to feed) -sometimes it maybe looks like people here are too inert politically to change something (postsoviet mentality and al this kind of blahblahblah) but actually people are too busy to survive -so busy that thinking of your own party or human rights or freedom of speech is as much useful for your daily routine as metaphysics the real luxury here is time what you can spend for thinking what is really important for yourself as active member of society and things what you can give to others or your state -most of the people would bankrupt after first month when they didn't get their salary -so you can't really blame them there is really thin line of middle class (about 7-10%) who can really understand and take care about values like this -while others are doomed to live out their rat race like lives -this is how actually oligarchy rules and works “Freedom of speech is a luxury we can dispense with in times of crisis”
-nope -i don’t think that this is any kind of luxury what we can dispense or not
-usually i m too busy, too tired or too drunk to care about another political cynicism from my government
-actually most of the time i feel so helpless about it that only way seems to go and crash the windows of parliament building (but i can’t do that because i’ve got a family to feed)
-sometimes it maybe looks like people here are too inert politically to change something (postsoviet mentality and al this kind of blahblahblah) but actually people are too busy to survive -so busy that thinking of your own party or human rights or freedom of speech is as much useful for your daily routine as metaphysics

the real luxury here is time what you can spend for thinking what is really important for yourself as active member of society and things what you can give to others or your state -most of the people would bankrupt after first month when they didn’t get their salary -so you can’t really blame them

there is really thin line of middle class (about 7-10%) who can really understand and take care about values like this -while others are doomed to live out their rat race like lives -this is how actually oligarchy rules and works

]]> By: foypi http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/737/making-the-law/comment-page-1/#comment-2280 foypi Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:03:31 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=737#comment-2280 <i>"yeah -freedom of speech ... whatever…</i> I guess your government agrees with you. Freedom of speech is a luxury we can dispense with in times of crisis. Pierre “yeah -freedom of speech … whatever…

I guess your government agrees with you. Freedom of speech is a luxury we can dispense with in times of crisis.

Pierre

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