A new Bill submitted to the Duma, the Russian parliament, on Friday will leave people vulnerable to prosecution for acts considered to threaten not only national security but also the country's constitutional order. Critics said that it was designed to intimidate opposition to the Kremlin at a time of rising economic discontent.Guess what would happen to some journalist who threw a shoe at one of the officers of the Russian government.
Details of the Bill emerged as the man accused by Britain of murdering Alexander Litvinenko, the dissident former spy, said that anyone harming the Russian State should be killed. Andrei Lugovoy, who is now a member of the Duma, said that he would order the assassination of anyone considered a traitor if he were in the Russian President's shoes.
“If someone has caused the Russian state serious damage, they should be exterminated,” Mr Lugovoy, a former KGB officer, told the Spanish newspaper El País. “Do I think someone could have killed Litvinenko in the interests of the Russian State? If you're talking about the interests of the Russian State, in the purest sense of the word, I myself would have given that order.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The true face of Russian tyranny
If you had any doubts about the yearning of the current Russian government to recreate a Soviet-level of tyranny over all dissenters, this newest move should remove all doubts.
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"A new Bill submitted to the Duma, the Russian parliament, on Friday will leave people vulnerable to prosecution for acts considered to threaten not only national security but also the country's constitutional order. Critics said that it was designed to intimidate opposition to the Kremlin at a time of rising economic discontent."
Thank heavens the GOP would never propose and pass any similar repressive law in the USA! Oh, wait ... they already did. But how would a real Patriot Act?
Well--lucky us Bill. We have an in-comming President who has no problem with home grown terrorists(AYERS,Dohrn) so I guess it will be fine for Islamic terrorists abroad to chat with their "friends" in the US with no oversight.
9/11 was all just a big misunderstanding.
Yep, those evil Republicans and a overwhelming majority of the Democrats voted to expand the definition of terrorism and codify some of the tools used by law enforcement to track down terrorists. Not one mention though of any section aimed a criminalizing any act deemed threatening to the constitutional order. But I suspect Bill B knows that and merely choses the easy sloganeering that sheds no light on difficult national issues.
And while the rest of us continue our squabbling here our patriots are already in the field of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan as volunteers.
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