By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
PACIFIC DAILY NEWS
Apologies are in order to some readers who may feel I repeated some points in my columns in the Pacific Daily News. As these columns online also are read by non-English speakers, some secretly in Cambodia, a rehash drives some points home.Rote learning is not without its usefulness. Not everyone understands something encountered only once.
The pages of the PDN are not for my propaganda. An educator, I thank the editors and the publisher for the opportunity they provide me to share information and opinions and to provoke discussion. The newspaper is a wall-less classroom where I can describe, explain, analyze and suggest.
As those making up the loose organization calling itself Professional Cambodian Voices in the northwest United States examine the concept of freedom, they might include in their discussion the "four essential human freedoms" described by President Franklin Roosevelt: Freedom to speak and express, freedom to worship; and freedoms from want, and from fear.
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