If you think the Patriot Act is bad

[Sgt_Shellback]

Putin said he would propose legislation abolishing the election of local governors by popular vote. Instead they would be nominated by the president and confirmed by local legislatures — removing the last vestiges of local autonomy.

Now that's a crack down... Imagine if the US Federal Govt. stopped State elections for Governor and said they were going to hand pick them from Washington.

(Maybe someone more familiar with a system of Paralment would put this in a correct analogy for the UK folks)

 

[DarkStar]

Putin's KGB roots are definitely showing through lately.

 

[blahblahblah]

link please

 

[The Mullinator]

... And the fast decline of Russian politics causing a come back of the Soviet Union era government continues.

Putin is having a really easy time getting all of this.

 

[Sgt_Shellback]

link please

Here ya go... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=4&u=/ap/20040913/ap_on_re_eu/russia_security

You can see that they've taken some of the same steps the US did but man-o-man did they take them far.

 

[clarky003]

not nice to speculate about, but I can see it could very well go along similar lines with the US federal government. But would people allow it?

 

[DoctorGordon]

Putin said he would propose legislation abolishing the election of local governors by popular vote. Instead they would be nominated by the president and confirmed by local legislatures — removing the last vestiges of local autonomy.

Sounds good, people will no longer be tricked into electing boneheads

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Sounds good, people will no longer be tricked into electing boneheads

Yeah, the boneheads will be hand-picked for them instead.

 

[Waffles]

Sounds good, people will no longer be tricked into electing boneheads

Yeah, the boneheads will be hand-picked for them instead.

Ouch, burn.

 

[dkelly]

Yeah, the boneheads will be hand-picked for them instead.

By other boneheads

 

[CyberSh33p]

can't wait to see what happens. either we get a new tyrant ruling over russia and some sweet cold war stuff or we get a strong central government there which isn't scared to take action and is beneficial for russia.

either way, I get a free t-shirt.