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.

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