Ambersun graduates to Brittney Spears level of crazazy:

“Vidas, I’m almost flattered that you care so much about my personal political opinions, but you’re also making me feel just a bit uncomfortable - like I’m being pursued by a stalker.”

Ambersun, my posting count here is rather small. Your want to avoid any and all questions relevant to personal political opinion dwarfs in comparison. I’m sorry if real questions cause you to become just a bit uncomfortable. Direct questions have that affect upon those who avoid them at all costs - as you do.

Were you going to actually address any of these questions at some point ?

“If I felt you really cared what I think about the political haps in Latvia and Lithuania, and thought you really would pay attention to what I say and ponder the wisdom of my wisdom - I’d still not break my silence to the fifth column.”

Oh, I’m sure your knowledge of political “haps” in Lithuania is quite impressive. Care to expound on that ?

Your silence ? Golden my darling Ambersun. Oh but to wish it would be real. Cause, the things you post when you arent silent are simply idiotic my dear Ambersun.

I care DEEPLY what you think about the political haps (cant help but laugh at haps) in Latvia and Lithuania Ambersun. Please share your wisdom of wisdom with us ?

“PS Can you give me an update about Russia’s response to Lithuania’s demand for acknowledgment of the occupation of Lithuania? Any mention of Estonia and Latvia?”

First question - yes I can. Second question - no, no mention. Why would there be ?

So how about answering questions posted to you ? Just once ?

Vidas

Dear ambersun:

You wish to talk about the occupation rather than the position of the current Latvian government on important security-related issues? Interesting, but I just can’t let go.

What’s Latvian government’s position on the Nord Stream gas pipeline? What’s Latvia’s position on the EU efforts to liberalize the energy market in Europe? What is Latvia’s opinion on the concluded presidential elections in Russia? And a bonus question: Why does the center-right government makes such stands? And I’ll be repeating these questions until you find the answers.

Sveiki!

Aleks wrote:

“Dear ambersun:
You wish to talk about the occupation rather than the position of the current Latvian government on important security-related issues? Interesting, but I just can’t let go.

What’s Latvian government’s position on the Nord Stream gas pipeline? What’s Latvia’s position on the EU efforts to liberalize the energy market in Europe? What is Latvia’s opinion on the concluded presidential elections in Russia? /…./”

Yet, Ambersun was crystal clear about the specific questions that you posed:

“Ambersun Posted: 07 March 2008 02:47 AM

Why would I share Latvian state secrets with you?  Do your own web-surfing and YouTubing to find the answers to Latvia’s state secrets.”

I can’t help taking this to mean that Ambersun believes that the electorate does not have a right to know the position of the LV government about the country’s energy policy, since it would violate “Latvia’s state secrets,” and instead needs to ‘read between the lines.’ But, why is the policy secret?  Should it be? Why can’t it be discussed by those whose future it affects? As the saying goes: ‘I’m not getting it.’

Jebšu nav tā?

Please do be specific, Ambersun.  You continually claim that your posts are being misrepresented in the retelling.  That failing does indeed frequently appear on LOL in the threads that you participate in.  However, I’ve yet to see that you have been the victim of such misrepresentation. 

Visu labu,

Elizabete

Ambersun wrote with great mocking sarcasm: “Why would I share Latvian state secrets with you?  Do your own web-surfing and YouTubing to find the answers to Latvia’s state secrets.” How this “joking” rebuf of my “fifth-column interrogator” would be taken seriously is beyond me.  Or....the “Latvian state secrets” are safe since I will never break when subjected to hostile, badgering “foreign” pressure.  Or.....I do not have any “Latvian state secrets.”

Elizabeta wrote:  “I can’t help taking this to mean that Ambersun believes that the electorate does not have a right to know the position of the LV government about the country’s energy policy, since it would violate “Latvia’s state secrets,” and instead needs to ‘read between the lines.’ But, why is the policy secret?  Should it be? Why can’t it be discussed by those whose future it affects? As the saying goes: ‘I’m not getting it.’ ”

Dear Elizabeta: Are you serious or are you pulling our LOL legs with such a magnificent non sequitur? Or do you really believe that I am the lone holder of “Latvian state secrets” and under an obligation to share them with Vidas, Aleksejs, and the Latvian electorate? 

I wish I could feel honored that my personal political opinions are sought so relentlessly by a few individuals, but unfortunately, as the saying goes: ‘Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.’
Vidas wrote: ”Your silence ? Golden my darling Ambersun. Oh but to wish it would be real. Cause, the things you post when you arent silent are simply idiotic my dear Ambersun.
I care DEEPLY what you think about the political haps (cant help but laugh at haps) in Latvia and Lithuania Ambersun. Please share your wisdom of wisdom with us ?”

If anyone is really interested in knowing how I feel about any number of subjects, you will find my personal political opinions already on previous LOL posts.  Help yourself.

If anyone is really serious about participating in a constructive exchange about government policies in Latvia, please begin your LOL thread “dialogue.”

About Latvia’s “energy policy” specificially, a good place to start might be with Nils Muiznieks comments the other night on the Domburs show about Latvia’s lack of a coherent government “energy policy and his listing of the elements a comprehensive energy policy would address. 

Please, feel to ‘talk among yourselves.’

Meanwhile, you may want to read the new article in Business Week (March 6, 2008), Al Capone Might Feel at Home in Latvia.I assume you (the reader, like Vidas or Aleksejs) would rather find it yourself than have me cut-and-paste.

Ambersun:

Why sudden love for Nils? Earlier you suggested no one among diaspora in California gets Nils, now suddenly you refer to him for an opinion. How come?  Is it just a convenience? You’d go to Demakova for the national identity question. To Lucas for the Russia question and to Muiznieks for the energy question? Do you have any opinions of your own?

I really want to know what YOU believe regarding Latvia’s energy policy especially as it relates to Russia. That topic hasn’t been covered here on LOL as far as I can tell. If it has, throw me a link, would you?

Also, I’d like to know what YOU believe regarding Latvia’s position on Nord Stream. What is it? Do you agree or disagree and why? And perhaps, you could shed the light why center-right government in Latvia run by ethnically Latvian parties including the Fatherlanders has been cautious in its criticism of the Russian presidential elections?

These are the Russia-related questions I’m willing to discuss because they relate to current policies we the people can still impact. Wouldn’t you agree?

Ambersun provides the following tid bit:

How Do You Prove You’re a Jew?
By GERSHOM GORENBERG
Published: March 2, 2008
One day last fall, a young Israeli woman named Sharon went with her fiancé to the Tel Aviv Rabbinate to register to marry. They are not religious, but there is no civil marriage in Israel. The rabbinate, a government bureaucracy, has a monopoly on tying the knot between Jews. The last thing Sharon expected to be told that morning was that she would have to prove — before a rabbinic court, no less — that she was Jewish. It made as much sense as someone doubting she was Sharon, telling her that the name written in her blue government-issue ID card was irrelevant, asking her to prove that she was she.

Not sure what this has to do with anything, but if the point is to show that Israel has “racial” laws which would make Jim Crow blush, then yes, its true.

Aryeh, a marginal Israeli

“Meanwhile, you may want to read the new article in Business Week (March 6, 2008), Al Capone Might Feel at Home in Latvia.I assume you (the reader, like Vidas or Aleksejs) would rather find it yourself than have me cut-and-paste.”

Ambersun - why do I need to read the opinion of Brits to gain insight on the Latvian condition ? You’re a Latvian right ? A “Real Historian” who spends “considerable” time in Latvia.

Brits dont hold all of the worlds answers - regardless of what they may feel.... I’d prefer to read the opinions of real Latvians.

So, please. When you’re finished answering Aleks’ questions - I’ll leave my humble query for your 100% true Latvian attention:

How about this - let me be so presumptuous to ask you Ambersun - to define for me what a good relationship with Russia is ?  From a Baltic Unity Today viewpoint.

Vidas

We should not forget that Russian political influence in Latvia began only a little more than a hundred years ago.  Before that, most of the cultural impact came from Baltic Germans in Kurzeme and Vidzeme, and Polish intelligentsia in Latgola.  Consequently, the Russian talk about centuries old cultural contribution, generosity and friendship between Latvians and Russians is pure blarney (or BS). If anything, Russian influence was and still is a dead weight around our necks, (or a monkey on our backs) keeping us down.

If the expression of Latvian culture makes some Russian uncomfortable, he or she can return to Russia and live in peace.  If Russians make Latvians uncomfortable, Latvians have nowhere to go, they have to take a stand and fight.

We should not forget that Russian political influence in Latvia began only a little more than a hundred years ago.

?!?!

/P