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5 months ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 5:43PM
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Vaclav Havel was a great man and an unlikely leader of a revolution. May he rest in peace.
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5 months ago ::
Dec 29, 2011 - 1:18PM
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6 months ago ::
Dec 21, 2011 - 8:04PM
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I liked his plays. I loved "The Garden Party" Shirley
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6 months ago ::
Dec 21, 2011 - 6:21PM
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He was a good man, a force for good, and he changed the world for the better.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 18, 2011 - 3:22PM
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Havel was a genuinely, good man, and an honest and courageous politician who served the people of Czechoslavakia, and then the Czech Republic well. His open opposition to the evil that as Soviet Communism, and later communism everywhere cost him time in prison, but also helped hasten the fall of the Soviet Union. It's too bad he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. Others far less qualified have received it. His example is one to be followed. Rest in Peace. Ken
Conservative, Libertarian, Life member of the NRA and VFW
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6 months ago ::
Dec 18, 2011 - 12:30PM
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I am embarassed that I did not know much about him. But he sounds like he was a good person. May he rest in Peace.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato..
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" Jackie Robinson
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6 months ago ::
Dec 18, 2011 - 11:48AM
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CNN reports that playwright, political dissident, and former Czech president Václav Havel has died. He was 75. According to his spokesperson, Havel died peacefully in his sleep Sunday morning in the presence of his wife Dagmar. Havel was a puckish, absurdist playwright turned political activist. One of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s, he spent four and a half years in prison for opposing Czechslovakia's Communist government. He later emerged as a leader of the Velvet Revolution that swept the government aside in 1989. He went on to become president of Czechoslovakia, and of the Czech Republic when the country split in two at the end of 1992. Havel was a deeply serious thinker given to long, rambling statements in presidential speeches and conversation. He also had an impish sense of humor, reportedly whizzing through the long corridors of Prague Castle on a scooter after becoming president. According to CNN, it was Havel's love of rock and roll as much as his moral outrage at the Communist system that brought him to prominence. He co-wrote the influential Charter 77 anti-Communist declaration in protest at the arrest of a Czech rock band, the Plastic People of the Universe. A perennial contender for the Nobel Peace Prize, Havel never won but remained active in anti-Communist causes from Cuba to China until his death. Prague Castle, the office of the Czech president, is flying a black flag today. The Czech government will meet in emergency session tomorrow to consider declaring a day of national mourning.
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