so interview there's these mass protest rain at least two thousand people showed
up for the most recent one per good reason there's two issues that are
significant one is that the government is
pushing for it has already passed but it needs approval the president the prime
minister whose
really a power in Turkey has already approved it but the
and and his party passage through Parliament but now the president just
has 15 days to
give the final stamp of approval on it what it would do is it would largely
time the controls on the Internet meaning that if you're opposing Voice
the Turkish government
well perhaps you're not gonna be heard quite as much
right and the second issue is that in Turkey about what they did was is
ridiculous trials where they said
a whole host of generals we're planning a coup
agence the current prime minister hard on well
it turns out that the special courts they had put in place that we're outside
of the regular courts were ridiculous
the whole evidence was ridiculous in one piece of evidence
it was such a clear forgery that they used
from a.m. a computer program
that was not available at the time that the documents indicated
they were written so it was up botched forgery
it was botched all or all over but the in that case the Prime Minister didn't
want the military have
now a lot of power so we try to cut their power through this
show trials now it turns out he's a military
today for other reasons we'll get to that in a second but in the midst of
this
we had a fascinating and development which is in the middle of a protest not
only were there firing tear gas which is fairly normal not just in Turkish
I'll protest but in others as well but as you see there
in that picture they also started firing water cannons
what in the world is in the water cannon why is it red
ingenious tactic they put red pepper spray
in the water can and so
that fire water you're looking at right there is blasting
ever Porter on the sea they knocked her off her feet with that
choose this in their reporting in the mill the protests
and they unleash that matter on hers was a protesters
when you are you miss it was effective yes I
saw the video where they were driven back in obviously the reporter was
knocked down
as you saw their she was on a gas mask I mean
ok what kind of a situation arian where we got reporters with gas mask we got
pepper-sprayed
water cannons and this is your own people ban if you
I mean look at that recipe
if you weren't already a pressing your own people perhaps we would have gotten
this place
i'd and look he claims of course the Prime Minister does everyone up on a
poner una amiga clapping dante
on the internet now all or no no no I'm actually trying to make
turkey freer what you'll get that explanation the second as well
first he says this are governors absolutely
not a government of corruption this a slander and those whose slaying the
slander will pay the price
and also those who are the subject of this letter would pay the price for the
combines
within the confines of white look here's the says I got from
that quote everybody's paying a price okay pepper spray water cannons for
everybody
the people doing the slender the people get this letter I don't know why people
getting slated up to pay the price even repaid
but in this case it basically what he's saying is
if you speak out against my government I will consider it slander
are make sure that %uh censor the internet so that doesn't get out and
then on prison you
for good measure so gee I wonder why people are concerned about this look
it by the way if you're unfamiliar with the latest developments in Turkey
he his government is facing massive corruption charges
and the response over the prime minister to those corruption charges
was to take out a lot of the police and the prosecutors are involved
and move them either fire them or move them to different remote parts a turkey
all you like to buy corruption charge against by government well it now you'll
be living
on Telugu and mountain in North eastern Turkey good luck to you
okay so that's how they've handled it now look yet understand there's a lot of
complicated Forcier this the military
which in the case a turkey has been pro secular and the good guys
and im then you got the prime minister who
iraq has a right wing government who apparently likes so
fire water cannons crybaby and well what is not interested in
anybody opposing them especially in the press right
or online and then you gotta third factor which makes the situation really
interesting
which is so fundamentalist religious leader
who actually resides in the United States of America
who's now who used to be in cahoots with the Prime Minister
and his fundamentalist government but now they're fighting and he controls
a lot though the the prosecutors the legal system
and the cops and that's why the cops and the government are
fighting I know its massive right but for those of you who are not familiar
with this policy and understand it
the in the fight between add-on England who who's the other
a religious leader that I was referring to there are no good guys
it's basically the problem here in America the Tea Party fighting with
a you know Republican Party establishment
whose controlled by the multinational corporations so
it no one wins in that fight so now
what is of course even more problematic is when you rest the military on false
charges
and especially when they have been in historically in Turkey the protectors
are the people
and that's I know it sounds weird everyone else but that's been the
history
and in Turkey and and then
you have everyone trying to explain the internet censorship for everyone else
he says these regulations do not impose censorship
out all on the Internet on the contrary
they make it safer and freer I
so when I pass a law that says I can control goes online
I'm just kinda preview bring you into a jail cell if you savings at all I Inc
in fact I'll Jazeera reports
and as our journalist and blogger was reported on Friday from Turkey because
his message on Twitter
criticizing the government according to his newspaper is among males amman is
controlled
by the fineman was good and I told you about
and so you know you can take that with a grain of salt because these guys are
battling one another but the guy was kicked our country pursuits %uh me said
on Twitter
but I'm sorry I made he was made freer
free to leave the country right and then if you don't rest
as a model I hear you on that but I'll Jazeera has broader sources and they say
US by base right through Freedom House said that over the past year
dozens of journalists have been fired because of government pressure
and government officials threats against journalists have become common
Turkey for a long time has been a shining light
ago democracy in secular government in the Middle East
and and in the Muslim world and we here in America have often put them
up as the example to follow and they have been and for a while
even this right-wing government over arrow on
actually done a decent job with the economy and a decent job a foreign
policy
now they've been in power for a very long time
and as we see here in the US and all over the world power corrupts and
absolute power corrupts absolutely
so now they're looking to get rid of all the sand they've got these massive
corruption charges against them
huge protests in the street for different reasons and their responses
more censorship and more pepper spray
water cannons not mine really the response of someone
who's in the right now if he wasn't already drunk on power
that might make prime minister at a1 rethink your strategy
doesn't appear he's gonna head in that direction