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Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police
J.Tatar and a number of other readers alert us to the shooting death of an anti-government webmaster while in police custody in Ingushetiya, a volatile province in southern Russia. Police took Ingushetiya.ru owner Magomed Yevloyev off a plane that had just landed in Ingushetiya. "Yevloyev ... was a prominent opponent of the pro-Kremlin president of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov [a close ally of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin]. Prosecutors have opened a preliminary manslaughter investigation after Yevloyev was shot in a police car in Narzan, the capital of volatile Ingushetia, a mostly Muslim region that borders Chechnya, Russian media reported. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office, Vladimir Markin, said 'an incident' took place after Yevloyev was taken into a police car 'resulting in a shooting injury to the head and he later died in hospital,' Interfax reported."
Just for the record, Georgia attacked South Ossetia (Russia's ally) first.
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Ah yes, the Russians should've stayed in Ossetia and whined to the international community that really doesn't give a shit because Georgia is the most flowering democratic democracy of all the democratic democracies that ever democratised. No, by no means should you ever move to take out the military infrastructure of a sovereign nation which knowingly and willingly sends its military to attack your troops.
Ossetians were forced to answer sniper fire from Georgian side.
In any case, why did Georgian even NEED snipers??
Exactly. The same people who complain that the gap between the lower and upper classes is widening are frequently the same people advocating the destruction of the middle class through taxation. There was a time I would have said "Democrats" or "Liberals" here, but nowadays it seems to be everyone except the Libertarians.
Next time a politician says "tax the wealthy", take a look at who the "wealthy" are. Most of the time they're people who are doing okay, but not by any means secure in that position and can easily be brought down. There are very few people in this country who can lose 5% of what they earn and not have their lives thrown into chaos.
But then, that's the dirty little secret of socialism, isn't it? Everyone is equal (equally poor) in socialist states, except the rich people in government who will have some sort of good excuse. In the meantime, all those middle or upper middle class people who could have started and grown small businesses are in poverty themselves. Bye bye job market, hello squalor. And if you think all of this will somehow end the tyranny of the wealthy, you're wrong. Socialism only increases the power of those who remain wealthy -- typically through means most would consider "unethical".