Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Not Always So Easy To Be Unhappy With Your Government
As these poor chaps found out the hard way, criticizing your government may earn you the black bag (has anyone seen V for Vendetta?):
MOSCOW, July 11 - The Russian security officers, in plain clothes, arrived in the late afternoon at a hotel where a pro-democracy conference was being held, witnesses said.Sometimes I forget what it means to be an American, and how it was people just like the ones mentioned above who fought and bled for the exact same ideals; and won them for me.
They swiftly seized four members of a political movement opposed to President Vladimir V. Putin, handcuffed them and rushed them away. Then they turned on a German magazine correspondent who tried to photograph the arrests. One of the officers snatched his camera and left with it, too.
