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Jun. 1st, 2008 10:50 pm'You must come with us' | The Guardian
It's interesting that the police chief would rather implicate himself as an anti-Semite and paranoid than own up to their real motivations - as a white-collar worker albeit in the capital, I can tell you that whatever the professor found in his interviews could not have been overwhelmingly positive.
But it doesn't even have to be overwhelmingly so - besides oil, all this country has is its image, which it works extremely hard to cultivate and tolerates no blemishes on. When we run an even mildly critical story, within the week if not the next day the sheikh outlaws it or the ministry concerned declares a crackdown or a study into the situation. They convene committees, pledge funds, tighten security and perform raids. Basically, they do everything one could expect of a perfect, responsive government - not that the Emiratis are worried, whatwith their spectacularly lavish welfare state. But whether any of their pretty promises will culminate in real change will make the paper a very interesting read in the next six months to a year.
It's interesting that the police chief would rather implicate himself as an anti-Semite and paranoid than own up to their real motivations - as a white-collar worker albeit in the capital, I can tell you that whatever the professor found in his interviews could not have been overwhelmingly positive.
But it doesn't even have to be overwhelmingly so - besides oil, all this country has is its image, which it works extremely hard to cultivate and tolerates no blemishes on. When we run an even mildly critical story, within the week if not the next day the sheikh outlaws it or the ministry concerned declares a crackdown or a study into the situation. They convene committees, pledge funds, tighten security and perform raids. Basically, they do everything one could expect of a perfect, responsive government - not that the Emiratis are worried, whatwith their spectacularly lavish welfare state. But whether any of their pretty promises will culminate in real change will make the paper a very interesting read in the next six months to a year.
