Gary Kasparov Arrested Over Political Fight

geddes writes "World chess champion turned opposition leader Gary Kasparov was arrested this morning while leading an march through Moscow in opposition to Russian President Vladamir Putin. Kasporov is a leader of the 'Other Russia' coalition which has been banned by the government from appearing on TV, and had been denied a marching permit. From the New York Times: 'Essentially barred from access to television, members of Other Russia have embraced street protests as the only platform to voice their opposition ahead of parliamentary elections in December and presidential elections next March. Early this month, Mr. Kasyanov's and Mr. Kasparov's Web sites were blocked, though it was unclear by whom.' Kasparov was later released from detention, though he was still fined for participating in the event."

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deep blue

[mincognito]

Early this month, Mr. Kasyanov's and Mr. Kasparov's Web sites were blocked, though it was unclear by whom.

Deep Blue probably did that.

Re:Sorry, couldn't resist ...

[orzetto]

You are however exposed to accidents with each one of them, so you have to multiply back by 200,000,000. I would have written it better if it were not for sig length limits.

Possibly "Traffic is 80 times more dangerous than al-Quaeda" would fit better.

Re:Personally

[king-manic]

You get points in my book for at least attempting to spell "asinine". Perhaps I was under the mistaken impression that I was talking about recent events, not stuff that happened almost fifty years ago (not to imply that what happened then was unimportant).

You're right about hippies and anti-abortionists, but you present a one or a zero. Reality is shades of grey.

If you can take me to task for "not remembering the sixties" it's fair game for me to point out your apparent forgetfulness of lefty-type demonstrations in the recent past that have featured violence and general anarchy.

It actually seems you have troubles distinguishing shades of grey. You also suffer from confirmation bias. Protests occur often without much press because they lack violence. In my fair berg there was a fairly substantial anti-war rally that was peaceful and documented by the local press. 400 people in a courtyard at the locla university. Because you didn't hear of it, it did not contribute to your image of the subject. The only news you get is the ones when violence does occur, and it's often the same morons who cause riots without a cause. 1/1000 protests get violent but you onyl hear about the violent one so you form a demented picture of reality. A lot of peopel suffer from this. This is why people think "things are getting worse" when in general violent crime is down and so is the murder rate, because they have only the sensationalist and often retarded press to get info from. A political stance does not often dictate your association with violence.

The KKK is a "right-wing" movement. They love violence. The black panthers are a "left-wing" organization and they claim to love it too. The Nazi's were "right-wing" movements prone to violence, the Moaists were "left-wing" people and for a period prone to violence as well. But the "left-wiong" "right-wing" is all very subjective. The Nazi's were a "socialist" movement but their doctrine was very much "capatalist/dictatorship" with a huge conservative bent. The Maoist were "communists" but their actions were simple class inversion. The twits who were ruled, elevated to rule. Those who rule were subjigated or fled. In the end their communism was more kingdom building and popularism then any hippie ideology. Their attempts to move towards their idea of communism resulted in the greatest public policy failure that i can think of, the great leap forward. After the Central comitee effectively castrated Mao, they went on a almost free market push. There are few social service in China, few government intrusions into peoples lives... per capita. You lived or died by your own efforts. A very non-socialist communism.

in conclusion, your associating of violence with a particular political bent is mind bogglingly stupid. Violence is associated only in so far that people tend to violence under certain circumstances.