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Putin had the lawyers of his primary opposition arrested, what a dictator.
by willcipriano 3y ago
Putin had the lawyers of his primary opposition arrested, what a dictator.
- logicchains 3y agoWe're lucky to live in the west where that kind of thing doesn't happen.
- _3u10 3y ago[flagged]
- pseingatl 3y agoYou were asleep when Trump's lawyers were arrested? Or when Lynne Stewart was arrested?
- _3u10 3y agoI was being sarcastic, note the part about Putin's son bribing officials in Ukraine.
- zimpenfish 3y agoThe difference, I think, is that Trump's lawyers have committed actual crimes, not just "opposed Putin".
- joe__f 3y agoSydney Powell pleaded guilty to election interference yesterday
- Arnt 3y agoSo I had to google "trump lawyer arrested" and read that she pleaded guilty to "racketeering, conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft, trespassing and invasion of privacy, and conspiracy to defraud the state." Wow. Quite a list.
- daliusd 3y agoOh the old "в США убивают негров" shows its head.
- atoav 3y agoWe just do it differently. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2020/12/united-kingdom-un-expert-calls-immediate-release-assange-after-10-years https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2020/12/united-kingd...
- ben_w 3y agoAssange isn't a lawyer, and definitely isn't "the opposition's lawyer".
- atoav 3y agoYeah. But he was also over a decade in jail without a trial. Don't get me worng: The state of justice here is certainly better than in Russia, but we should give ourselves the same scrutiny we give to the Russians. Closing our eyes when we do obvious unlawful things is bad for our rule of law and makes us look like hypocrites when we (rightfully) point out injustices elsewhere.
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoYep. On the other hand, not even his fellow journalists do anything... They could at least do a weekly article, "assange is still in jail", because in reality, you're either "just a reporter" (who writes articles about what someone, usually from the government, said) or you could actually do some meaningful investigative work, and end up like him. I know that corporate mainstream media reports just what their owners want them to report, but even kevin mitnick had more media support and individuals asking hard questions than assange has now.
- ben_w 3y agoIf I'd been the editor of the Guardian newspaper on the day the British security services ordered the destruction of the hard drive with the Snowden archives, I would've made the next day's front page almost fully blacked-out, except for perhaps a handful of words across the whole thing reading: > ■■■ no ■■■■ ■■ ■■■■ free ■ ■■■■ ■■ ■■■■ ■■■ press ■■■■ ■ ■■ ■■■ ■ ■■■ or something else equally snarky. But Snowden still comes across as one of the "good guys", someone who was expecting to get hurt and did his thing anyway because it was the right thing to do, whereas Assange… comes across wanting to be the headline rather than be responsible for the headline. Well, came across; I've only heard statements about him or on his behalf since he left the embassy, not from his own mouth. But the old reputation stuck.
- ur-whale 3y ago> We're lucky to live in the west where that kind of thing doesn't happen. Was that a sarcastic comment or did you entirely miss out the whole Snowden affair ?
- ben_w 3y agoI think it's a reference to how Trump's lawyers keep on getting in trouble. AFAIK Snowden's lawyers have never been newsworthy — I'm sure he's got some, but I've never heard of them.
- r721 3y ago>I'm sure he's got some, but I've never heard of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Kucherena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Kucherena
- joe__f 3y agoTrump's and Navalny's lawers were fighting cases on opposite sides of democracy