We love the fact that extremist activity is a crime in Russia, but their foreign policy holds that anti-Israel terrorists are resistance fighters. Anyway, this is what we call a “slide into totalitarianism”:
Armed Russian law-enforcement officers raided the office of chess player-turned-opposition politician Garry Kasparov on Tuesday on suspicion of “extremist activity,” Kasparov said on Moscow radio station Ekho Moskvy. About 20 agents, both from police ranks and the Federal Security Service (FSB), a KGB successor organization, arrived at the Moscow headquarters of Kasparov’s United Civil Front party Tuesday afternoon, the youngest-ever World Chess Champion told Ekho Moskvy… It was unclear which court labelled Kasparov’s political activity extremist, or why.
We know what Putin is trying to accomplish, and we regret to inform him that it’s not going to work. If he wants the Baker commission to start appeasing him, he’s going to have to try much, much harder to be an unapologetic warmongering fascist. We suggest threatening to wipe out millions and millions of Jews. It worked for Ahmadinejad.
Previously: Memo To The World: Ahmadinejad Is A Genocidal Lunatic About To Get Nukes, The Russian Legal System Is Kind Of Silly, Chechens vs. Kaiser Soze, Advantage: Not Chechens
