[lbo-talk] US vs. Russian democracy

[Chris Doss]

>
>It's interesting to see the outrage! outrage!! that Michail Khodorkovsky's 
>arrest has stirred in the West.  IMHO, being a billionaire anywhere is ipso 
>facto evidence of crimes against society, but the front page of Wall Street 
>Journal today sees Khodorkovsky's arrest as a sign Russia "is heading 
>toward authoritarianism."

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They see that every time a wealthy Russian gets targeted. The Western 
media's worship of mobsters continues. The Washington Post even played the 
Jew card, saying that Kh. was targeted because he was a Jew. (They also 
called him "the last oligarch" -- what are Abramovich and Deripaska, chopped 
liver?)

Look, Kh. made his riches in the Mafia-ridden 1990s. If he's not guilty of 
embezzlement, fraud, tax evasion, maybe murder, I would be amazed. Nobody in 
the Western media seems to mention the murder charges.

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