Report: Top Putin opponent Alexei Navalny has disappeared from Russian prison system. Unlike other Putin opponents, who fell out of windows or glowed in the dark from polonium 210, Navalny was already in prison. But he was to be transferred to another prison, and family and friends have lost contact.
Putin is hardly my role model, but he is the role model of Democrats. They politicized the FBI and Justice Dept. They handed out long prison sentences for walking through an open Capitol door on Jan. 6. They dehumanize political opponents as “Nazis” and try to shut down conservative media. Come to think of it, where is Tucker Carlson? Seeing what happened to him, if you had a media platform, would you feel free to criticize the Ukraine war?
We can’t do much about Alexei Navalny disappearing. But we can – we must – do something about our First Amendment disappearing. If we are inhibited from speaking in opposition to the government, it is no longer our government, but merely the government.