From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:4528a752{at}w3.nls.net...
>> And not a peep out of Phil.  If he wants to see all the things that he
>> claims are happening in the US really happening, just look to Russia.
>
> Phil only reassembled and powered on his email system a few minutes ago
> after a 36-hour trip to Cumbria.
>
> What I find amazing (and deeply worrying) is an ongoing trend in American
> thought that reduces the whole process of justice to a hunch.
>
> Not only are you all prepared to pronounce people guilty without trial -
> you
> now don't even appear to require an interrogation.  This is sick.
>
> You go from "Putin don't like the woman" to "strap him
on a table" in a
> heartbeat.  Assassinations of journalists are not that uncommon - both
> Eire
> and Northern Ireland had famous cases - but one thing that's universal is
> that journalists don't like their colleagues getting bumped off and
> they're
> (taken as a whole) a damned tenacious bunch - it tends to be
> counterproductive.
>
> So just let's wait until at least have a suspect, shall we?
>
>

People rallying in Pushkin Square didn't have a problem placing blame

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/08/europe/EU_GEN_Russia_Protest.php

One man held up a photograph of the 48-year-old reporter with the words
underneath: "Politkovskaya's killing and the persecution of an ethnic
minority is fascism." Another poster said: "The Kremlin has
killed freedom of speech."

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8018567
Ms Politkovskaya suffered death threats aplenty. On more than one occasion,
Russian special forces threatened to rape and kill her, leaving her body in
a ditch. Each time she talked them out of it. In 2001, she fled to Austria
after receiving a direct warning to leave Russia or else. In 2004, on her
way to the siege of a school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, where
she hoped to mediate between the Chechen hostage-takers and the Russian
military, she was poisoned, and nearly died.

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