Those who criticize the government can expect to pay a price.

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The burden of the story was to show that many (most? all?) people who criticize big government and the welfare state are hypocrites because so many of them are recipients, in one way or another, of government largess.

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International Rivers points to the case of an Ethiopian journalist Reeyot Alemu who has been jailed for daring to criticize the government's centerpiece project.

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In the document, the hackers criticize a government they claim uses hackers internally while actively prosecuting private citizens who do the same things for their own purposes.

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We have not heard a word from our politicians as news broke of the Syrian-American blogger, Amina Abdallah, the young woman who used her popular blog, A Gay Girl in Damascus, as a platform to criticize the Syrian government, being abducted in Damascus Monday evening, forced into a car by three armed men.

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