Posted on 12/23/2011 12:03:58 PM PST by Steelfish
Oh yeah, let’s send Bush there so a bunch of leftists can protest his presence instead of celebrating Havel’s life. /s
I can tell you’re a lady that doesn’t beat aroud the Bush. :-)
Have I just not been paying attention or has Havel’s death and funeral been under reported?
They were real big on “stability”. And protecting us from Panama. The joke used to be, “Bush's only foreign policy failure was his inability to save communism.”
Havel wanted to appoint Frank Zappa Minister of Culture
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/Vaclav_Havel.html
His favorite album was Bongo Fury
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Bongo_Fury.html
Those were crazy and heady days in Prague
RIP President Havel... you were a man among men who gave hope to a long-suffering part of the world. Godspeed...
Yes they were... Havel was a cool guy.
I'd say it's been underreported. But given the fact he was anti-communist, in the world media's collective eye, that was a major point against him.
I think the latter. Our media aren't very interested in highlighting the accomplishments of a champion of liberty. I'm not a Clinton fan, but I think I'd rather have us represented at the state funeral by them than by the perpetually vacationing first couple.
I think the reporting on the two funerals is in proportion to the humility vs the narcissism...
The decency of Havel to the pure evil of Kimmy.
I guess bad guys make a better show.
I first visited Prague in 1971, just a few years after the Soviet invasion. It was like a living car museum with bat mobile Tatras... and cigarettes that could be bought singly (one at a time) and their great beer with no labels... and the churches packed... Very atmospheric... Everybody - 99.9% of Czeckoslvakian humanity - upon seeing I was a tourist - would sneak close and ask to buy hard currency (especially German Marks). Loudspeakers on the street making announcements and playing military music... pictures of Brevnev and Husak in every shop window... and (gulp!) some of the prettiest girls in the world.
Salute! Na sdravie (or something like that)
A life well lived. God’s speed dear man. God’s speed.
Kremlin conspicuously silent over Václav Havels death - December 19, 2011 - Neither Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, nor the countrys Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, nor Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has commented on the death of the first Czech President Václav Havel. In sharp contrast, Medvedev was quick to send his condolences to North Korea following news of the death of Kim Jong-il.
In the Russian state-controlled media there was scant mention of Havels passing. Just 28 seconds of the evening news on Russias First Chanel (Pervyi kanal, 1tv.ru) were dedicated to the news of his death, while Rossiskaya Gazeta, the official daily of the Russian government, carried a few formal lines without any comment from public figures, Russian or foreign.
Václav Havel slams undemocratic Russian regime - September 12, 2011 - Havel has described the current Russian regime as the harshest of all known forms of post-communist political systems, calling it a specific combination of old stereo types and a new business-mafia environment.
There can be no talk of democracy as long as the leaders of the state insult the dignity of citizens, control the judiciary, the mass media and manipulate election results, Havel wrote in Novaya gazeta, which has seen at least seven of its journalists and contributors killed since 2001, including Anna Politkovskaya and Anastasia Baburova.
The opposition should appeal to fellow citizens who through personal experience in the West have seen that democratic freedoms work, and call upon them to remember their roots and support the development of a civil society in their homeland, Havel concludes.
Yep, and I found the Czech people to be very cordial and pleasant.. and ditto on those beautiful women! The first phrase I learned there.. “Damci jeden pivo procim?” (May I have one beer please?”
I've heard a great deal more about that murdering monster Kim Jung-Il on the news than about Havel's life and death and his struggle to free his country from communism.
The Czech Republic may be one of my top SHTF destinations, although I’ve heard Prague has pretty much become one big tourist trap.
I’m certain Mr. Havel would be amused at the idea of a “pomp filled funeral”, what a breath of fresh air he was.
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