Putin foe Khodorkovsky says Russia is lying about Ukraine

Former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, addressing thousands of people at the cradle of the uprising against Ukraine's Moscow-backed leader, accused Russia on Sunday of being complicit in police violence against protesters.

To chants of "Russia, rise up", Khodorkovsky, who was jailed for a decade under President Vladimir Putin, told the crowd the Kremlin was lying to its own people by portraying the protesters as "neo-fascists" bent on violence.

Wearing a simple dark anorak and jeans, he addressed the crowd from a stage in Kiev's Independence Square, occupied by protesters since November despite police trying to oust them with force which resulted in about 100 deaths.

"I have been shown what the authorities did here. They did this in agreement with the Russian authorities - more than 100 dead, more than 5,000 wounded," Khodorkovsky told the crowd, who waved back with Ukrainian flags.

And there are bozos here on this conservative site who seem as a cool dude despite the fact that he’s an obvious autocrat and an expatiationistic chauvinist.

Shouldn't be a surprise, given the support demonstrated here for authoritarian policies like the Drug War, the Patriot Act, militarizing the border and local police, foreign military adventurism, Internet censorship, and "good old capitalist" multinational corporations.

A majority of people among all political stripes want a "man on horseback" leader like Putin and the Big Government apparatus he wields, as long as they get to use that apparatus against people they don't like. So a majority of people vote for either Big Government Faction, (D) or (R) - only to find that they themselves eventually end up being the Uniparty's real targets. Mitch McConnell was unusually candid the other day when he publicly swore to destroy the Tea Party.

Being a principled supporter of Constitutional liberty is much harder. That's why so few of them are to be found, these days - and most get labeled by one or both Factions as nuts.

Euromaidan is not a peoples revolution,. It is a bought and paid for enterprise of the US State Dept and its NGO allies. NATO assistance is used as heavy muscle. If the US has its way, Ukraine will end up like Serbia - the stopming grounds for home brew Islamic Armies bent on destruction of civilization as we know it.

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