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Benazir Bhutto Lives On

The tragedy in Pakistan in the wake of the brutal assassination of former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan People’s Party Benazir Bhutto cannot be underscored.

But the cowards who cruelly took the life of the charismatic but controversial politician cannot stop her words and efforts to bring greater democracy to her country in the face of grave personal danger, especially since they are now forever disseminated globally on the Web.

For example, here’s an interview she did with David Frost in November, in which Bhutto discusses the first attack on her, which was unsuccessful:

And, incredibly, here is her father, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was also Prime Minister of Pakistan until a military coup of his government and who was later hanged in 1979, speaking to the youth of the country:

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work