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
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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It is true we are a republic not a democracy however even if we were what does that have to do with him being arrested?!
Am I missing something? Someone accused him of rape... now true or not they have to do through a process. He wasn't arrested by the US either. I don't get the point here. Does he mean that because a country is a democracy they shouldn't attain to its own laws?
Putin's trying to imply that democracies are oppressive (too).
My reply for him is "No sh*t, Sherlock? You really picked up on that one quick."
I happily refuse to acknowledge any feelings of guilt whatsover in Assange having his you-know-what in the wringer in a country with an effective government.
Seriously?! That tells me right away that Putin and their ilk are just always on the lookout for ways to normalize and legitimize their behavior. Obviously knowing it is wrong, but that it pays by pointing out the imperfections of others they push to make a point that others are as bad as they are... Pathetic and interestingly enough how liberal of them.
But even in that case it STILL doesnt make any sense. Regardless of the charges being false or not (revenge by the two ladies or whatever), the charges WERE brought up and there IS a law that protects those charges... the charges must be investigated and proved true or false it is legal and it is right... how is it oppressive to follow the laws on the books which on face value are not meant to be oppressive at all in fact the only thing here is that the women (seemingly) are taking ADVANTAGE of the law or misusing it for their own nefarious purposes... it is the women not the law that is at fault here of any so called oppression by the state on this man.
I am all for democracy. Just so long as it doesn't get in the way of my freedom. You point about 99 percent ruining it for the other percent is spot on. But I think the margins can be as small as 51 to 49.
We're already past that point with income tax. Heritage foundation used to regularly publish a breakdown of % income tax provided by percentile of income. Its easily verified with IRS statements and a spreadsheet. Though I admit the last time I ran the numbers myself was circa 2006.
If Wikileaks has released Russian secrets there wouldn't even be a wet spot remaining of Julian Assange. Meanwhile our feckless, plastic saber wielding, community organizer is still trying to brainstorm a response.
...Or maybe President Zero is happy with Wikileaks, as he is with anything that
degrades the United States.
I would even dare say that Russia may have more stringents methods to get to a spy, deserter or traitor before he or she does much damage and in the case he or she is successful they indeed would be dead. Not only Assange but also the soldier that provided the documentation and who knows perhaps supervisors who didnt do their jobs.
I didn't take it as a slam on the US as much as it is a slam on our Administration, which is unaware of our form of government. Evidently the Harvard Law curriculum doesn't cover fifth grade civics questions.
We're not a Democracy. We're a Representative Republic. In a Democracy, if 99% vote for public lynchings, it sucks to be the other 1%. In our form of government, we vote for senators, who collect political payoff money to approve stuff like that.
However, in terms of distorting the truth, apparently rape allegations aren't that big of a deal for Vladimir Vladimirovich.
"We’re not a Democracy. We’re a Representative Republic"
A republic with new, improved bananna flavor!
Only instead of having music provided by Bananarama, we get to listen to BananaBama singing songs of class warfare..
more like Milli Vanilli with the teleprompter and all.
I have seen them "live", so to speak. They on the Club Mtv tour back in 89. Was(not was), Information Society, Milli Vanilli, & Tone Loc were on the bill. "Downtown" Julie Brown was the host, & it was a $5 ticket. It was a cheap night out with friends. BTW, I would have taken Bananarama on that line up, they would have been much better than Milli Vanilli, but then again, I got to see the biggest frauds ever in the history of music. They did'nt sing on their own album, let alone on stage.
Wubba, wubba, wubba...