Pussy Riot Get Exact Same Sentence As Tim deChristopher

The Obama regime threw environmental activist Tim deChristopher into the Federal gulag for 2 years. His "crime"? He bid at a Federal auction for oil leases during the Bush regime, even though he wasn't actually an oil driller. (The Obama regime subsequently cancelled the auction anyway.) For this symbolic political act, he's being given the usual harsh treatment that political prisoners get in the Federal gulag.

Interestingly, that's the same sentence the Russian female punk rock group Pussy Riot just got, to great tongue-clucking from the Western media propagandists. The New York Times actually put the news on the top of page A1!! I.e. that was the most important news in the world in their august judgment. Tim deChristopher has never been on the top of page A1. Indeed, he's rarely (if ever) been mentioned in the NY Times, or the rest of the Western media, which is just so concerned with human rights in adversary and enemies countries.

Not that I begrudge Pussy Riot the attention. I wish they hadn't been persecuted at all. (Persecuted is the correct word. I grant no legitimacy to persecutions carried under color of repressive law, like in Russia and the U.S., by calling them "prosecutions.")

As in Soviet days, the Russians never point out the hypocrisy, or lead noisy crusades on behalf of persecuted Western dissidents. They merely assume a defensive crouch, and decry "interference in internal affairs," the line the Chinese use too. Although both those nations seem not to care much about Western tut-tutting these days.

Maybe they feel that in the Age of Torture and Guantanamo Bay, global publics don't take Western bombast about "human rights" as seriously as they might have once. (Although given the horrible record of Western Imperialism's depredations in the world, the numerous slaughters and so on going back about 500 years - this is referred to as the glorious "Age of Discovery" in Western propaganda and pseudo-history, it's weird that anyone would ever have taken such gush seriously. What did they "discover" anyway, that they could subjugate, murder, and exploit "backward" peoples who were inhabiting the lands the conquerors- oops, I mean "explorers"- "discovered"? Let's see, the Belgian Congo, Spanish and Portuguese invasions of the Western Hemisphere, the Europeans dividing up Africa and Asia, the U.S.- well, there's a long list for the U.S., enough to fill books, which in fact has been done.)