Sabri asks: >By the way, who is this Lee Kuan Yew?<
if I remember correctly, he was the dictator of Singapore (banning chewing gum and the like -- shades of the Taliban's ban on kites!) His political party used to be a member of the 2nd (social-democratic) International, which reinforces my feeling that top-down politics are shared by both the "communists" (the 3rd International, etc.) and the "social democrats."
jim
