On 4/2/14 11:05 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > > The only interesting item in this is the following: >> Pavel Gubarev who has been detained by the Ukrainian security >> services for his separatist activities. > which reveals that in the oh-so-not-fascist Ukraine of today > "separatism,"--the advocacy of or organization for national > self-determination by a minority nationality like the Scots, Basques, > Catalans, Corsicans, Tibetans, Uighurs, Chechens, Papuans, or > Puertoricans--is a crime. A political crime, a thought crime. As in so > many other Popular Democracies! > >
He was not arrested for his ideas but for taking part in a sit-in at the City Hall in Donetsk. That is why the article referred to "activities". If I sat in at City Hall in NYC, I would be arrested as well. This is generally what happens with civil disobedience. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
