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Comment Re:Europe... (Score 1) 199

It's terrific that Russia runs to protect "minorities", except that it doesn't really care about minorities as a whole (witness the plight of the Maris in Russia itself as an example), but it does very much care that there are russians in pretty much every country in the world - always a nice excuse to claim some sort of mistreatment, fund extremists, react to an inevitable crackdown by the foreign government with sanctions, etc.

Comment Re:Europe... (Score 1) 199

So let's see, first Russia supplies weapons and finances to "rebels" within Georgia (ossetian and abkhazi) in the 1990s, because you know, rebels must be aided and such, Russia is so nice and supports minorities all over.

Then Russia has its own rebel problems in Chechnya, yet somehow these are not the good rebels, they must be murdered. So of course after accusing Georgia of harboring some of them, they conduct an air raid in Georgian territory in 2002 and then deny it (this is something of a recurring theme, as in the 2008 bombing of Georgia, Mr. Medvedev also at first claimed Russia didn't bomb anyone and if anything some eager pilots took matters into their own hands)

Then there's the matter of the Russian military. Georgia became independent again in 1991, yet it took 16 years (until 2007) for the Russian military to withdraw from a sovereign country. Now of course there's plans to reoccupy military bases on Georgian territory again, to establish a Black Sea presence. Coincides nicely with the fact that the Russian navy is finally getting kicked out of Ukraine, but then you'd know all about that mr. frustrated russian living in Ukraine :)

Comment Re:Prostitution is not illegal... (Score 1) 695

Read the lawsuit, it says nothing about his jurisdiction other than to recount his submitted evidence. The sheriff is asking the court to grant a permanent injuction preventing Craigslist from "engaging in the conduct complained of herein". No mention of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, United States, etc.

Further, in the next point, the lawsuit asks the court to order Craigslist to comply with federal, state and municipal laws related to facilitating prostitution. Fine and well, but what that would essentially mean is that for every country/state/city specific page that Craigslist has, they'd be required to specifically research what is allowed and what isn't. If you order them to do this regarding prostitution, why not regarding the sale of any service or good? After all, there are plenty of laws on the books regulating those as well, wildly different in different areas of the world/US/state.

A silly example could be made - we all know the antiquated laws different bodies of law have on the books, or even some very specific small-town regulations. Say Madeuptown, Madeupstate has a municipal law preventing someone from owning more than 1 horse. If that person now buys 2 horses on Craigslist, it would follow that Craigslist is in violation of the court order brought on by sheriff's lawsuit (assuming he had won).

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