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- pimpbot1979, on 11/26/2007, -1/+59Don't worry, Kasparov always thinks 2 moves ahead.
- inactive, on 11/26/2007, -1/+13Kasparov got pawned.
- inactive, on 11/26/2007, -6/+15It didn't show up in the duplicate filter so it ain't my fault. Do you do a search on Digg for every single damn story you submit? I bet you don't and I don't think many do.
So don't come talking to me like I'm a noob. You got a problem? - inactive, on 11/26/2007, -1/+9Dude you are so completely full of it that I am laughing at you out loud. Garry Kasparov is a conservative who is trying to preserve democracy in Russia from an ex-communist spy (Putin) who has taken on dictatorial powers. You are an idiot and should not post comments
- inactive, on 11/26/2007, -5/+11Wait a minute, it was already well established that the arrest of Kasparov was ordered by Putin with is shadowy KGB mind games. I mean, diggers know their *****, they know 9/11 was a demolition job, or that the federal reserve is a world domination plot carried out by the jews. There is no fooling around here on Digg, we totally know what is secretly going on inside the government.
- 3rdDay, on 11/26/2007, -2/+7Sad. Russia's path to democracy is not as clear as it once was. Putin is a step backward. If it wasn't for it's mineral wealth Russia would be a failed state.
- mglukhovsky, on 11/26/2007, -2/+7God, I do hope that's sarcasm.
- phoobaar, on 11/26/2007, -2/+5O RLY? http://videos.theolympian.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/m ...
- BillyBIanks, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3True, but I believe that move 3 involves a squirt of polonium 212 into his nostril.
- cyb3rdemon, on 11/26/2007, -1/+4Buried for inaccuracy. This article makes it seem that Kasparov was arrested for his views or protesting. Nothing could be farther from the truth. He was arrested for leading a truth to violently break through police lines. He was free to march while the march was peaceful.
Anyone who wants to bury me, try and attack a cop in the US, I'd like to see that. - inactive, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2(rimshot)
- BabyWookie, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2You are so full of *****:
1. Khodorkovsky is a corrupt, douchebag oligarch who stole from the Russian people and then tried to undermine the Russian political system, using his illegally accumulated wealth and power. He's far from innocent.
2. There is still plenty of freedom of expression in Russia. I have regular contact with average Russians and watch Russian TV almost every day, seeing heated debates on the political shows, with all sides being represented and no one getting arrested afterwards.
3. Putin is mildly authoritarian, but does not even begin to compare to true modern dictators, such as Pinochet and Markos, not to mention Kim Jong Ill or Pol Pot. When thousands of Russians are being kidnapped from their homes, tortured, jailed or executed for their political belief, then I will join you in calling him an "evil dictator." Until then, Putin's Russia must be the only "dictatorship" to have ever existed that doesn't even practice the death penalty. - inactive, on 11/26/2007, -4/+6Actually, I always search by keywords and have been for many months. If the story is on frontpage already I never submit a blatant dupe.
- OwdenBowden, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2That's Putin it to him.
- pimpbot1979, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Best comment I have ever read.
- DesertDude, on 11/26/2007, -5/+7This seems outrageous now. But if you think about it, America isn't that far off from a situation like that. Check out Naomi Wolf's speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc
47 minutes long, but well worth it. I'm not an American and even I felt sick to my stomach. - cawpin, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2No, somebody else that actually pays attention has a digg account. I'm burying it for that reason AND because it was on the front page yesterday.
- gasoline, on 11/26/2007, -1/+3It's not Putin, it's Putler.
- badenglishihave, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2Checkmate.
- DesertDude, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2In addition to phoobaar's (great name, love T&C) link, I think you ought to actually view the link I posted. You people are insane if you let your democracy slip away like it is now. Trust me, I know what a fascist state is. I live in one.
- inactive, on 11/26/2007, -1/+3 Putin is anti-globalist. He may have immoral designs of his own I dont know but I do know he is an enemy of the internationalists out to plunder the Russian people. It appears Kasparov is in league with these oligarchs and other financial swindlers so it's not so simple as that he jailed a chess hero. Kasparov can also be thought of as a dangerous man to Russian. Now maybe so can Putin but things are not as cut and dry as they first seem.
The US media all agree that Putin is bad. That right there should be enough to make you want to look deeper. - spyd3rweb, on 11/26/2007, -0/+2Live Free or Die.
- ReturnToFreedom, on 11/26/2007, -5/+6Death to Fascism! Death to tyrants! Death to fascism abroad! Death to fascism here in the US! Death to the USA patriot act! Long live the Constitution!
DOWN WITH EVERY POLITICIAN WHO VOTED FOR THE PATRIOT ACT!
It's better to die free than live an entire lifetime in 1984! - masquerbate, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1I've been living in Russia for 3 years. I'm from New York, born and raised. And it really freaks me out, when i read the news from the States or Europe and what they say about Russia, because it doesn't jive with the reality here. And for someone like jpy321 to say what he says, is obvious that he's just parroting what the news media in the West wants him to believe. It makes me sick and utterly distrustful of anything I read from my home country. It's just amazing that their are so many harden beliefs from around the world about Russia from people who have never been there or know anybody there.
Other Russia, contains a bunch of disparate groups who have little support in Russia or by Russians. It contains Kasparovs group, which he is always prefaced as ex chess champion. You have to wonder why it so important for the Western media to always introduce him as ex-chess champion. Can you hear me now? It's call branding. You never hear his policy plans, only that he is anti-Putin and ex-chess champ. He was an ***** when he was chess champ and he still is. Smug, unlikeable and back by shady money.
Then there is Eduard Limonov and the NBP, National Bolshevik Party. A party of Ultra-nationalist with a mixture of Nazism, Communism and anarchist. There party logo is a black hammer and sickle set in a Nazi flag in replacement of swastika. Many of his rank and file members are skin heads. But they never tell you about that in the West. Google it and see the truth.
Then there is the People Patriotic Union, which is a fringe Communist party that spilt with the main Communist party. It is ran by former premier Mikhail Kasyanov, who was called Misha "2 Percent" because he would cut corrupt deals with anybody for a 2 percent cut. And really does the Communist party really need an off shoot party.
Then there is Union of Right Forces headed by Boris Nemtsov. He maybe the only one who has good enough credentials to run a government, but his public life and connection as Yeltsins right hand man, makes him deeply unpopular.
And as far as the arrest of Kasparov, It's a political stunt to get PR for Other Russia. As oppose to all the comments here that they ban demonstrations, they were allowed to rally and demonstrate. They had a permit to do so. So there was no ban. They did not however have a permit to march. And anybody who lives or knows Moscow, a march would clog the already traffic jammed streets. So an organized set of protester barreled through the police blockade and started to march down a main thorough fare lead by guess who Kasparov. They arrested him and he was on all the news in the back of a big bus giving the peace symbol to his supporters and news cameras. No cuffs, no beatings and 5 days in jail. No live bullets as redmonkey eludes to. In fact no live bullets in any case. Where do you come up with this stuff? Lot better treatment then say G8 Protesters got all over the world or protesters in Georgia whose a western ally, or the Pakistanis get or even the Protest against the Republican convention where hundreds protesters jailed in a bare warehouse on the west side of Manhattan without any formal charges for 3 days.
So you really have to wonder why there is such a disparity on the part of the Western news outlets or in the knowledge of Western citizens to the reality? Whose fooling who? - Markpdotcom, on 11/26/2007, -2/+3Stop wining supernova, you submit enough to digg already, get a life!
- fixedcoma, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1Well yoda you must read 1984 to understand his statement! I agree 100% RTF I too am tired of these abnormal atrocities against humanity and human rights!
- Dragoslav, on 11/26/2007, -1/+2I suppose the oligarchy under yelcin was better??
- inactive, on 11/26/2007, -1/+2I'm sure in all the stories you've submitted... there have been dupes too. I ain't doing it blatantly. I don't track the frontpage 24 and 7 and sometimes dupe happens becuz the dupe filter is broken. You don't have to be such an ass about it... whatever dude.
This sorta attitude from a fellow active digger just irritates me. xoxo. - yodaj007, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1Too ***** bad. I didn't see it the first time around.
- jpy321, on 11/26/2007, -1/+2This is just one more example (like the jailing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky) of Putin using "police" force to quash someone who might pose a challenge to his power. Freedom of the press and freedom of expression (including the freedom to congregate) are things that are taken for granted in this country and do not exist under Putin's regime. Putin seems to be like an evil dictator straight out of comic book. It amazes me that so many of these situations exist in the 21st century.
- yodaj007, on 11/26/2007, -1/+1What does this have to do with the article?
- athrasher, on 11/26/2007, -1/+1Figurehead?
- redmonkey, on 11/26/2007, -1/+1With your logic, If you antiglobalist, you could put peaple in jail, ban demonstration, ban free press,beat protester, use life amunition aginst demonstration. Your post is example why far left ideology and democracy is mutual exclusive.
- redmonkey, on 11/26/2007, -1/+1Putin just took money and gave it own friends from KGB. What about Abramovich? What about peaple in jail? What about total censorship on TV? If you like Putin so much why you are living in Australia?
- Dragoslav, on 11/27/2007, -0/+0Don't give that hillbilly lingo, 'if you don't like it you can get out' *****
First off I don't like Putin, OK. He's just one more 'mafioso' in Russian politics. There's no good or bad in this debate, just a whole lot of evil with victims in between.
Same with Iran. Their guy is an ***** but he's the lesser *****
I'm not defending Putin, you're attacking him. Thats what angers me, people who blindly attack someone without being informed of the full story and making the other side out to be swiss angels - Dragoslav, on 11/27/2007, -0/+0Neither side is good, both are bad. Its just that some are better for the masses victimized in between
It's just a matter of degree. - Darkside2984, on 11/26/2007, -2/+1Hell even Trotsky knew to get the fudge out of Russia when the ***** hit the fan. Guess being good at chess doesn't make you good at decision making.
- Markpdotcom, on 11/26/2007, -3/+2Awesome, the KGB has a digg account! :D
- crossers, on 07/22/2008, -1/+0don' t worry in his head he have many moves! ))
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http://www.chasr.org/ - Dragoslav, on 11/26/2007, -5/+3HAVE YOU PEOPLE LOST YOUR MINDS !!!!!!!!!!
Putin saved Russia from the Oligarchs and gave the Russian people what little they have. Boris Yeltsin was in league with the US and big business whoring the Russian people out to the west (and their oil).
These people he's persecuting are the Oligarchs that once ruled Russia (and ironically the ones who bankrolled his presidency). He's the hero of the people and this schmuck he's persecuting ain't ***** because he's good at chess. - mrfreeziexp, on 11/26/2007, -3/+1oh snap!
- interg12, on 11/26/2007, -5/+3good point. there isn't a 2 at the end of the address. i know i'm not aware of every story that hits the front page the previous day. digg on emobrat. also, emobrat, friend me on digg damnit!
- DeviantDragon, on 11/26/2007, -8/+3First time I agree with XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Duplicate, bury down.
- rz8472, on 11/26/2007, -6/+1Does this mean Putin is Deep Blue?
- senorsam21, on 11/26/2007, -9/+2Dude STFU, America's not even close to that... stop with the hysterics already.
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX, on 11/26/2007, -16/+7Goddamn blind digging.
This is a dupe. - inactive, on 11/26/2007, -22/+92641 diggs http://digg.com/politics/Kasparov_seized_by_Russia ...
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