<DIV>Yes, this is the problem. Even in America, citizens with little 'pull' are reluctant to excessively criticize the powerful for fear of retaliation. After all, one is free to publically criticise a criminal, but that criminal is free to ask an underling to pour sugar in one's gas tank. This is something few talk about, it is a peril of oligarchy, as opposed to the guaranteed violence of a dictatorship. Here is an historical example of someone who paid a dear price for an expose: in the 1950s Victor Riesel had acid thrown in his face, blinding him, after his radio show went too far in exposing crime.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><EM>>Quite a few journalists have tried to give us that<BR>>coverage. They tend to get arrested or shot by the<BR>>same dictators for their efforts...<BR></DIV></EM><p>
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