Putin vows to (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) hunt down reporter's killer

[rory_20_uk]

To call teh "evidence" of the iraq war legitimate is slightly optimistic. that politicians can talk in definites when intelligence was talking in probabilities is pretty damning.

Yes we can talk and scream... Little more than that. Demonstration is illegal outside Westminster.

Some countries people can't talk out. Amateurs. Here, we can talk out - just nothing really gets done about it. Even if a President or PM is caught detaining, transporting, torturing the fair and free courts can take years to point out the blindingly obvious. Then our democratically chosen stooge (from a choice of 2 in the US, 3 in the UK) does what they are told and if required legalises what was illegal.

When in the UK police arrested protesters when the head of China visited the investigation found that this was wrong... Months after he went home and of course nothing really happened.

[Lemur]

Rory, sounds like you're pretty cynical about our governments. Allow me to throw down a quote from one of your more famous contrymen: "Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

[Spino]

In bad taste but this incident reminds me of a Yakov Smirnoff joke from a 1980s beer commercial...

"In Russia you don't need to find Party Putin... Party Putin find you."