We hate to admit it, but we’ve come to like Vladimir Putin in a weird sort of way. He hunts, he drives race-cars, he competes in judo tournaments and he doesn’t – like some world leaders we could mention – wear dorky helmets on bicycle rides, throw like a girl or frolic about the White House Lawn with a plastic light-saber.
But then we are reminded of his authoritarian side and are brought back to reality.
We can credit ABC News with this latest intervention:
Assange’s arrest in London earlier this week indicated that the West isn’t as democratic as it thinks it is, Putin suggested.
“If there is democracy, it must be a full one. Why did they jail Mr. Assange? Is that democracy?” Putin said at a news conference Thursday. “You know what our villagers say: while someone’s cow is mooing, yours better be silent.” The Russian expression is loosely equivalent to the pot calling the kettle black.
Putin would do well to remember there are worse things than a trial by a jury. Like, for example, a cup of tea fortified with a shot of Polonium 210. That’s how notorious Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko met his untimely end. With a cup of Polonim 210-spiked tea that might very well have been brewed in a pot or a kettle. We don’t know if Putin recalls the specific color of these items.
Sadly this irony was lost on ABC News.
– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com
Source: ABC News
