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Welcome to the USSA | 49 comments (49 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Show trials:
USSR: Andrei Sakharov
USA: José Padilla

You're comparing a world-class physicist [more similar to Israel's Mordechai Vanunu in the reason for his imprisonment] with some random guy caught in Bush's gulag? How about replacing Padilla with Wen Ho Lee? Oh, wait, the judge didn't want to play along with that one.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 6th, 2007 at 06:55:24 AM EST

Re: Welcome to the USSA (4.00 / 4)

Oh, and Sakharov was never sent to the gulag - that was Solzhenitsin.

Maybe you would like to compare Sakharov to Chomsky, or something?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 6th, 2007 at 07:45:29 AM EST
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Sakharov (4.00 / 3)

was sent to monitored residency (not sure what the right term is) in Gorki (now Nijni-Novgorod), then a forbidden city.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Fri Jul 6th, 2007 at 08:04:04 AM EST
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Re: Sakharov (none / 1)

House arrest?

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jul 6th, 2007 at 01:58:10 PM EST
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Re: Welcome to the USSA (3.66 / 3)

At least, the Soviets had some sense of style when picking their targets. Those Bushies are just so pedestrian :>

by Francois in Paris on Fri Jul 6th, 2007 at 02:59:05 PM EST
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