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GLD 445.60-10.1%Jan 30 4:00 PM EST

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (106025)5/8/2014 10:42:22 PM
From: GPS Info  Read Replies (1) of 219951
 
GPS, the Russians are amateurs.

At what? Killing people, suppressing ideas of individual rights and/or general dissent? I think they were very “professional” at constructing gulags for dissenters and institutionalizing writers in psychiatric wards, collectivizing farms, starving millions, forcing people in and out of territory for political purposes.

If you read books, you may consider this one for a better perspective:

amazon.com

It's silly to accuse Russia and Putin of fascism if we consider the trends in the "free" world over decades.

You constantly make the point of people leaving one country for another. Hawk made very good points about the general drain of people out of Russia. Do you think people are really debating about leaving some idealized homeland/motherland for someplace worse in the west? Are Russians emigrating en masse to China or Egypt or Syria or Afghanistan? Do they want to trade one autocracy for another?

With the various police shootings of people and SWAT home invasions of wrong addresses and excess in general,

I see a very common mistake by people: they are confused between official government policies and those for individual violations of constitutional rights. I don’t believe there are government policies to invade homes of the wrong people, or shoot campers outside of designated campsites. I could be wrong, so you could educate us.

with Homeland Security treating people like herds of compliant sheep,

I wonder if you actually know why this was thought necessary.

we read little about the USA lecturing and hectoring China about human rights.

I’m not sure what you intend by this. Are you saying that China doesn’t have a human rights problem? Should Amnesty International be doing the hectoring? Would that be more effective than the US trying to move the needle?

Free speech, despite having specific constitutional protection, is increasingly limited.

In your view, how does the “limited” free speech in the US compare to China?

I may have time to review this:
en.wikipedia.org
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