http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/3956/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/russia_enters_police_state_arms_race_draconian_new_law <p>Russia has taken an unfortunate step into its police-state past with a new law that grants the state's security service broad powers to jail people simply on suspicion that they may be about to engage in illegal activity.</p> <p>The FSB has now regained a power that its feared predecessor agency, the KGB, had under the Soviet Union. This has been a consistent pattern under Vladimir Putin, who, first as president, then as prime minister, has steadily restored the power and prestige of the security agencies, at the expense, many say, of Russia's fragile democracy.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/russia_enters_police_state_arms_race_draconian_new_law#comments kgb News Article police state Russia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:19:25 +0000 davehollis 6207 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/new_germany_seizes_scrubs_private_stasi_museum_apologetics <p>1 in 20 East Germans were informants. "The Lives of Others" is a sad and unsettling movie about what results when Soviet statism is executed with German efficiency: The Stasi. Funny how much of East German communist assets like this museum were homesteaded, and now the "kindler, gentler" western state wants to seize it all over again. Never again!</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/new_germany_seizes_scrubs_private_stasi_museum_apologetics#comments apologetics apologists communism democracy Disinformation, Lies & Propaganda eminent domain germany kgb military