And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free
(Ok, technically, I'm not an American. Yet.)
Vladimir Putin continues to prove that everything old is new again by cracking down hard on dissent within his new Czarist Russia.
New legislation backed by Vladimir Putin's government that human rights activists say could throw Russia back to the days of the Great Terror.Them pesky Methodists. I *knew* they all were nothing but spies.
The legislation, outspoken government critic and rights activist Lev Ponomaryov charged Wednesday, creates "a base for a totalitarian state." Government supporters and Kremlin-allied lawmakers said the bill — submitted to the Kremlin-friendly parliament last week — will tighten up current law. Supporters say prosecutors often have trouble gaining convictions because of ambiguities in the definition of state treason.
The bill would add non-governmental organizations based anywhere in the world that have an office in Russia to the list of banned recipients of state secrets. The government has repeatedly accused foreign spy agencies of using NGOs as a cover to foment dissent.
But that's happening in far-off Russia. There's no way that the media could suppress bad news about our leaders in America, right?
Right?
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One of the bigger blogs could make a ton if they took on ads that weren't so... positive (steering away from ones by the kooks)
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