Navalny's lawyer kidnapped by unidentified Putin thugs, handcuffed w a bag thrown over his head, an

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Olga Lautman
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Navalny's lawyer, Vladlen Los, was kidnapped by unidentified Putin thugs, handcuffed w a bag thrown over his head, and driven to the Belarusian border to be deported. He is not allowed to return for 5 years

[Boomerproud]

1. Dear God.

I have no words.

[Chainfire]

2. That'll teach him.

[True Dough]

3. I wonder how long it would take the ReThugs

to reach that level of autocracy if they had unbridled power here?

[dhill926]

4. one second...

[Mike 03]

5. I was going to say "not long"

Historically, these things happen quickly because they are harder to stop that way.

Dictatorship happens gradually, and then suddenly.

(With a hat tip to Hemingway, who described the process of going broke the same way)

I'm recommending Ruth Ben-Ghiat's new book Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present to people interested in reading a broad case study of the rise, reign and fall of dictators, because it is a 100-year survey capturing the similarities and some occasional differences.

[GopherGal]

7. Weren't they getting close to that

with the unmarked vans grabbing people in Portland?

[Klaralven]

6. He's a Belarussian citizen

Lucky they just deported him to his home country.