Originally Posted by troung

At the end of the day I am a private citizen calling the leadership and enforcers of a violent dictatorship thugs. Same way I can call the Iranian mullahs thugs, Mugabe a thug, Bashir a thug, Kamirov a thug and so forth - they is what they is. If these vile regimes get offended that in some nations private citizens have a right to say these things, a right to protest and have a free media which brings light to oppression then maybe they should change their behavior but free people sure as **** shouldn't be muzzled as to not offend vile regimes.