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Than Shwe, the dictator of Burma, caused it to be announced today that a constitutional referendum "was overwhelmingly approved" – when in fact a huge portion of the Burmese are dead or lying injured and homeless from the cyclone and tsunami which hit the Irrawaddy delta rice growing region almost 13 days ago…and were unable to drink clean water, let alone vote. Than Shwe’s referendum casts in concrete in perpetuity, more of the brutality and egotistical offal that Burma has suffered in the nearly four decades of military rule under and from Than Shwe. Than Shwe claims his referendum document was voted in by 92.4 percent of the 22 million eligible voters last Saturday. His henchman, named Aung Toe, head of the Referendum Holding Committee, touted such on state radio, saying the voter turnout was more than 99 percent. Please forgive me, but this all reminds me of the grotesqueries of Elena Ceausescu, the headscarf and overcoat and thick heeled shoe wearing wife of the dictator of Romania, Nikolai Ceausescu. While her dictator husband appointed himself, literally, Geniul din Carpa?i, 'Genius of the Carpathians,' she appointed herself Commissioner Head of Sciences. She also appointed herself the equivalent of 'Highest Director of National Arts.' Elena Ceausescu held daily three-hour long television shows of herself expounding to the vastly intelligent Romanian people, her stunted and ignorant ‘knowledge’ of the arts and ’scientific matters’. No one with even a baby pea-brain believed a word she said. But her abject dimness of heart and hubris made her believe others were somehow stupid and would never see through her. Read »