[JR} --Ignoring Putin's 'Reforms'

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Ignoring Putin's 'Reforms'
» Fred Hiatt | Vladimir Putin continues to choke off freedom in Russia. President Bush can't even bring himself to acknowledge what is happening

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1. oops-here is the link (WaPost story).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/02/AR2005100200800.html?referrer=email

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2. "Bush Ignores Russia's Fading Freedom"

Silent on Putin's Slide
Bush Ignores Russia's Fading Freedom

By Fred Hiatt

Monday, October 3, 2005; Page A17

On Sept. 23, a week after President Bush had been "pleased to welcome my friend Vladimir Putin back to the White House," Putin took another step toward choking off political freedom in Russia.

He had already sent a message to business executives not to challenge him, by indicting oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and destroying his company with tax bills, forced sell-offs and other tactics of selective justice. Now, hours after Khodorkovsky's appeal had been denied in a comically brief process, and an eight-year jail term affirmed, Putin went after the lawyers.


A Canadian lawyer working on the case, Robert Amsterdam, was rousted from his hotel room at 1 a.m. by agents of what used to be called the KGB and was given 24 hours to leave the country. More seriously, prosecutors said they would seek to disbar Russian lawyers who had defended Khodorkovsky -- and in Putin's Russia, prosecutors get what they seek.

It's tempting to call these tactics Stalinist, but Putin is both less bloody and in some ways more clever than Stalin. He doesn't have a lot of people killed. But he understands that he doesn't have to. He can reimpose authoritarian rule without a gulag, simply by spreading fear through example.

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3. Emperor Bush NOT silent...he is quietly cheering

After all, Putin is merely performing a slightly modified version of the "Bush Plan" for his people.

It is virtually the same plan with some different details, as what the Busheviks are performing ON US.

I also think it should be noted here that Putin didn't begin using the Bush Plan For the Destruction of Liberty until 2001-2, when the Bush Plan For the Destruction of Liberty had unmasked Amerikan "democracy" as a rigged joke, unworthy of respect or being followed.

Bush paved the way for Putin's behavior when he delegitimized "freedom" as a hypocritical concept the Busheviks have ZERO interest in.