CNN has front page coverage that
Gary Kasparov was arrested during protests in Moscow. He has been sentenced five days in jail. The last time
Kasparov was arrested, I had to search CNN to find coverage and it never made the front page. According to the NY Times, the
protests are continuing and
Boris Nimtsov was also arrested.
The CNN article, like most western articles on Kasparov and
Other Russia, leaves out that
Other Russia includes the Bolshevik Party:
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Authorities have been cracking down on a growing coalition of Soviet-era dissidents, leftists and democrats who are demanding that next Saturday's elections be fair.
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The funniest part of the article is the caption showing stating that Gary is showing the Victory sign as he is hauled off. Victory for what? Was arrest Kasparov's goal?
I am a supporter of free speech and I doubt that Kasparov truly deserved to be arrested. What continues to perplex me is he is no real threat to Putin or his legacy, so why bother with Kasparov? He has no real chance of ever being elected in Russia and
Boiris Berezovsky continues to do Kasparov no favor by claiming to fund the opposition.
By the way, Kasparov is not the only protester being arrested these days. An
anti-war protester was given 30 days in jail for staying to long in a Colorado congressman's office. Another protester,
Eva Tetaz, received seven days in jail. Over
100 people were arrested at a protest in San Francisco. A
priest received five months in jail for his protests. These are just some examples of why one should not be too quick to condemn the Russian government for arresting protesters. There may have been a valid reason for the arrests -- especially if arrest was the goal of the protest. Or maybe the goal was selling more of his latest book...
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