[1rudeboy]

The difference between the cases is that, when Breitbart and Hastings died, FReepers didn’t rush here to post that it’s ok because Putin does it. So why does Putin get the pass?

[mkjessup]

The difference between the cases is that, when Breitbart and Hastings died, FReepers didn't rush here to post that it's ok because Putin does it. So why does Putin get the pass?

I'm not giving Putin a pass on it, far from it. And I don't think any self-respecting FReeper does either.

But the fact remains that our government which once-upon-a-time was "Of the people, By the people and For the people" has lost the moral high ground, we as a Nation have adopted more Soviet-style behavior than anyone could have thought possible, and before we claim to have lily white hands to condemn Putin with, we better take a good long hard look at our own national conduct and what has been done "in our name" by the federal fascists in Washington.

[Ohioan]

Has Putin ever admitted the charges, you seem to take as givens?

The reason many of us praise Putin is that he has turned Russia back towards her religious heritage--a major need after over 70 years of Communist corruption;--has not fallen into the insanity in so much of the West, which denigrates your own identity as a people; and has not embraced the corruption of the sanctity of marriage & normal sexuality, which embraces such idiocy as the oxymoron of "same sex marriage."

Putin is certainly not perfect; but the side he is showing since he regained his high office, looks pretty good compared to what we have had the past 20+ years.