08-12-2012, 04:33 PM
Agreed Jan, while Putin and the FSU's intelligence apparat are nothing to drool/croon/applaud over [actually, things to condemn firmly!], the 'West' led by the USA and their Poodle-in-Chief [the UK] are also guilty of the exact same things - and perhaps more so outside of their national boundaries, at this time in history. The old trick of tyranny, whoever and wherever it is, is to point at others to divert attention from what they are doing themselves. 
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass