We Now Know More About the Apparent Poisoning of the Pussy Riot Member
At this point, are we really surprised at the way some people who perceive themselves as above the law (apply this to any political or commercial leaders you see fit) will behave?<p>We have passed a turning point at which previously reprehensible behaviors have become tolerated.  And as an English speaker living in the Netherlands has come to learn, some of us have an ingrained inclination to avoid directly calling out what to most people would be an obvious problem (to avoid potentially offending).<p>Putin's Russia kills people.  It imprisons people.  It poisons people.  It cheats, it steals (from masses of poor people).  It lies in the face of the world (bare chested).  For some reason we now tolerate this without calling it for what it is.<p>And now we have an American government that has for so long not only avoided calling it out but instead has celebrated non-virtues while avoiding contagious fatal flaws that we forget how wrong for civilization the behavior is.  Not only that, but we've begun to celebrate the virtues of dictators - not benevolent ones (if they exist), but previously-OBVIOUS horrible self-serving ones.<p>So, trying to shut the rant down, it's all quite f-d up.  We should not only not be surprised, we should be up in arms.  Ironically, the people who should be up in arms are the ones who wisely have realized that arming the civilians is a net-negative.  But at least in the US, the right to bear arms is exactly to undo situations like the one we are clearly headed toward.