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Originally Posted by Dreadnought
No offense but are free and open elections that much to ask from a government? There is no double standard we have seen this time and time again and its ALWAYS the little people that suffer. Chavez doesnt want open and free elections and looking at this neither does Putin. I have no quarems with Russia being on the up and up economy,social etc wise. But threatening to remove basic necessities in peoples eveyday lives if the choose not to vote for them? Please, who the hell sold Russia to Putin and Venezuala to Chavez?  It belongs to the people as much as their right to vote in whomever they choose without fear of retribution from those that would certainly loose their high elevations in free elections.
You want to know what makes America so powerfull? Its its people. The people exercising their rights to choose their leaders and remove them all the same if they wish to do so. And no matter where it is on the globe that you come from if you become a citizen then your voice counts as much as our own.
By the people, For the people! Lets see Putin and Chavez make that claim with a straight face. We wont hold our breath waiting trust me. |
You probably are surprised, but at all of us also.
I can vote against Putin if I want, I can create political party. Look at those parties that go on elections, them more than 20 and they are oppositional to Putin and its party. You think them somebody pursues? Parties LDPR and KPRF exist since 93-96 years, and they always were against Putin or Yeltsin. Unless something has occured to them since then? Them somehow restrained? No.
There are only the some people, Kasparov's type. They live owing to noise around of them. Here these constantly make something to look as martyrs of the government. An example - on November, 24th when they have made an application on meeting in the certain place. But they did not begin to observe the law (and own application) and have arranged a march, with the purpose to block movement on the prospectus. After that their leaders have detained, and now they shout about their political prosecution.