Posted on 06/14/2021 10:46:23 AM PDT by John Semmens
A court in Moscow has ruled that Alexey Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) he heads are "dangerous extremists" and placed them in the same "terrorist" category as ISIS and the Taliban. Navalny is currently in jail while other members of FBK have gone underground or fled the country.
Russia's criminalization of political opponents was sharply criticized by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken who characterized it as "despotic and tyrannical." Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov dismissed Blinken's comments, calling them "ironic. The Biden Administration's position on political opposition is the same as ours. President Biden himself declared that right-wing extremists are more dangerous than Islamic terrorists."
"They have declared the ragtag group of unarmed Trump supporters who vandalized the Capitol in January to be 'insurrectionists,'" Lavrov added. "These criminals are now being held in solitary confinement. Meanwhile, people who fought with police, looted businesses, and burned down buildings in so-called 'peaceful protests' are walking free because their politics agree with those of the Biden regime."
"Finally, even non-extremist political speech is routinely censored by the Regime's allies in the media and the social network oligarchs," Lavrov pointed out. "Members of the legal opposition party—senators, congressmen, and even former President Trump—are silenced, all with the approval of the ruling Democrat Party. So, you will have to pardon me if I don't take Secretary Blinken's criticism seriously."
In related news, Google's YouTube has censored a video of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc) questioning the medical bureaucracy's suppression of inexpensive treatments for COVID. More specifically, Johnson wondered "why the early uses of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were bad-mouthed by Dr. Fauci and blocked by governors in so many states when doctors using these drugs were reporting high rates of success." Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained that "it is important that everyone be unified around a single strategy rather that having individuals go off on different tangents. Blocking the voices that contribute to disunity is the function we can perform for the collective well-being of humanity."
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Political opposition has been basically illegal in Russia for centuries.
The goal of 98% of Democrat politicians is to establish a Soviet style system which enables them to silence, outlaw and punish the opposition. They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
I guess I’ll just have to be satisfied being a “deplorable”.
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