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NEWS AND VIEWS THAT IMPACT LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Friday, March 9, 2012

Era of Supreme Happiness Declared


Under the watchful eyes of the President a voter helps establish Happiness.


Turkmenistan has announced "an era of supreme happiness" to mark the start of Kubanguly Berdymukhamedov's second term as President

  • The President of Turkmenistan waves his hand and there is "Supreme Happiness."
  • President wins 97% of the vote.
  • Comrade Obama called to congratulate him and get advice.



The US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty which has reporters in Turkmenistan reported that the slogan had been decided upon at a cabinet meeting.
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Neutral Turkmenistan, the state newspaper and mouthpiece, also published a new poem specially commissioned to mark the former Soviet state’s future under Berdymukhamedov.
Gee, that was easy.
The President of Turkmenistan
declared that Supreme Happiness exists.

The AFP news agency quoted the poem from Neutral Turkmenistan:
"In Turkmenistan a new era has begun, 
All the Earth is lit up by the light dawn, 
The glory has enveloped the heart with an aura of greatness, 
And in the mighty state a happy time has started!"
Turkmenistan is one of the most repressive countries in the world, so repressive that the main European vote monitoring watchdog declined to send an observation team to the election because there was simply no democracy.
Mr Berdymukhamedov, a former dentist, won the Feb 12 election with 97 percent of the vote.
When Mr Berdymukhamedov came to power in Feb 2007 he promised to bring in more democracy and dismantle the personality cult that his predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, had built up. Detractors, though, say he has done precisely the opposite.

(UK Telegraph)


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