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[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

http://www.thenews.pl/international/artykul146568_belarusian-kgb-interrogates-independent-journalists.html


Following last month's elections in Belarus security forces there have been rounding up journalists working for a Polish TV station claiming they helped organize opposition demonstrations.

The KGB and journalists getting hauled in for questioning are a really bad mix. Yeah, it's not a Russian-style rash of suspicious deaths and people flat out getting shot. But who knows just how bad things could get in Minsk.

Comments

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Nothing like good ol' European tradition.

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Oktoberfest and Page 3 Girls! European traditions rock!

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Next thing you know they'll be massacring Jews again, just like old times.....

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Oh look, nice North-American traditions (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/1230/Mexican-drug-traffickers-set-up-new-cells-in-Central-America) (Mexico is in North America, right?) I'd say North American traditions rock.

See what I did?

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Actually the North American tradition would be to loudly and vehemently denounce the evils of the drug trade and then be busted having made one's fortune off drug money. It's a better tradition than secret policemen and repressive states. Bar the Jim Crow South and the Integralists that's been solidly an Old World Issue.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

You certainly seem on a bash America kick today, but I still like you anyway :D

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Which part of Europe did you mean? Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ireland or maybe Azerbaijan? There are countries in Europe, you know.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

The parts of it that had experiences with totalitarian governments with midnight knock squads that took people out to be shot for crimes against the state. That would be all of it except Britain, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra, Switzerland, and Sweden.

Since people were dumb enough to think that this one-liner was serious:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

This is a type of comedy I tend to find rather funny: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadBabyComedy. This comment was not a serious one, as Lukashenko takes himself seriously though I'd be hard-pressed to think anyone else who does.

Re: Since people were dumb enough to think that this one-liner was serious:

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm dumb, but the way you so vigorously jumped to defend that argument shows me that either you're not being entirely sincere here, or it was just a knee-jerk comment that you weren't thinking while you were making, or you're just a very good actor. Given past occasions where you've gone to tremendous lengths into the same direction, you may forgive me if I still have my doubts.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

You're not helping much.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That comment was originally meant to be an over-the-top http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadBabyComedy joke. Unfortunately as the succeeding wank showed the only one that got the joke was Dvn8nation. It was a signal example of a miscommunication mistake.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

1. Cue the regular Russian apologists for a pure and secure Fatherland who'll explain this with how the ebil Juice are poisoning Madar Rasha.

2. Cue the regular Europe bashers who'll put a smug face and explain what a hell that enormous country called Erap is (actually I already seen some).

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Erap-Bashers 1, Madar-Rasha 0. So far.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

It's a long evening.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

2) Less Europe-bashing than the same kind of regular nonsense whereby unpleasant people in the USA are made to typify all of the USA past, present, and future and people like Lukashenko are never acknowledged. What goes around comes around.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I think it's just Europe bashing.

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

and people like Lukashenko are never acknowledged

Citation badly needed. Again.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

3) Cue another kicking myself moment for trusting people would be able to tell http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadBabyComedy without a smiley of some sort. I guess stupidity, like insanity, is something even the gods contend against in vain.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

This too, was a http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadBabyComedy statement because I figured that he'd missed the original statement being unserious and that he also was joking. So again, I make a mistake that creates a clusterfuck of wank and for that I apologize.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

The "regular" Europe bashers? Who ? Underlankers? And?

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

He's more than enough (sometimes sounds like more than one person - probably a platoon of bashers).

Oh wait. You didn't recognize yourself there, I hope?

[mikeyxw.livejournal.com]

Erap isn't one country, silly. It's divided into New Europe, the good side, and Old Europe, the bad side.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Disregarding the fact that a couple of misplaced remarks derailed this whole thing quite a bit into a tangential direction, it should be noted that Lukashenko's regime is the last remnant of a past that's being long forgotten in Eastern Europe; and hopes are that with his demise his people will judge him as harshly as only his own people possibly could. That's what has happened in a number of countries in the region, so it's a matter of time. Curiously, the harshest critics of Belarus are not at the western side of where the former Iron Curtain used to stay; they're on this side of it. And that shouldn't be a surprise for anyone.

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd imagine people who'd hoped this sorta bullshit was over would be the one's least happy to see someone pulling it now.