A Summer Day's Thoughts on Prague Spring

Being the Fourth of July, it seems particulary appropriate to mention a few updates on my earlier post, http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com/2007/12/streetnoise.html.

A few YouTube videos I'd linked to have been removed, no great loss, since there were several to choose from anyway. But...

A couple of more videos have been put up for music off Streetnoise, one hardly qualifying as a "video", but the other, is quite different. The creator put some effort into matching up some news footage of the time with "Czechoslovakia", documenting a 'loss of independence day'. I thought this was important enough to call attention to it in this seperate blog notice, to call attention for a few minutes today to the memory of Alexander Dubcek. He might not be another Milton Friedman or Ludwig von Mises, but he figured out a few decades before Mikhail Gorbachev that 'the system' was not working. For this he belongs in the international pantheon of freedom lovers, along with Jefferson, Adams, Franklin etc.

Just realized there are at least two videos for "Czechoslovakia" on YouTube.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjxRt89qFBo - the first one I was aware of.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-_S1jFhn0 - second one that slipped in :-)