Posted on 01/08/2005 1:47:08 PM PST by Pikamax
Belarus president waves iron fist
Lukashenko has been in power for a decade
Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko has insisted there will be no people's revolutions, whether "rose, orange or banana", in his country. Mr Lukashenko, often described as Europe's last dictator, told a congregation at an orthodox Christmas mass in Minsk that Belarus would not witness the kind of popular protests in Georgia and Ukraine which saw the opposition rise to power.
He said his main task was to assure peace and security "no matter what it costs."
Mr Lukashenko, who has been in power for a decade, recently won a disputed referendum which allowed him to run for a third term.
The vote was held at the same time as parliamentary elections, in which not a single opposition candidate was elected to the house.
Subsequent demonstrations in the capital, Minsk, were violently dispersed.
In Ukraine, popular protests dubbed the "Orange Revolution" helped bring about a presidential re-election, in which the opposition triumphed.
Georgia meanwhile recently celebrated the anniversary of its "Rose Revolution" - protests which resulted in the president's resignation.
All in good time, Luky. They're coming for ya, commie scumbag. Your days are seriously numbered.
I have clients in Belarus. It's sad. At least half the country is very unhappy.
And know some Christians there who say they are quite happy with things and dislike the EU very much because the EU is so anti-Christian. The people I know are Protestants by the way. They have statred several new congregations and have had no problems with the authorities.
You know that right?
Because they're obviously in political harmony with them.
What if your Christian friends decide that Jesus's teachings are incompatible with dictatorship? They don't have the freedom to think for themselves. At least, hopefully, they aren't desperately unhappy like those who are capable of free thought.
Christianity (and religion in general) can be a force for freedom, but it can also be a force for social control.
No true Christian could be "happy" with political repression.
Are you conservative???
"rose, orange or banana". At least he has a sense of humor, sick, but a sense. How do you tell the people, that there will be no people's revolution? It doesn't work that way. Lukashenko has democratic Poland on one side and newly freed Ukraine on another side and authoritarian Russia on the third. People will be able to see and they will choose which way they want to go. It cannot be stopped by violence. The army, the police, the security forces are all part of the people. Will they be willing to kill their friends, neighbors and countrymen just to keep Laughing Lukashenko in power? Not for long they won't.
And he has also Baltic states in the north, he is really surrounded.
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