Russia hits back over oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky

[Peter Lemkin]

My emphasis in bold:



The "oligarchs" looted and stole the resources of Russia from ordinary Russian people during the Chicago Boyz decade of invasion, rape and plunder.

If anyone deserves to spend the rest of their lives in a contempoary Gulag Archipelago it is Khodorkovsky and his oligarch mates.

This case is not a "barometer of (Russia's) democratic progress".

Rather it demonstrates that the oligarchs were always raping and looting Mother Russia on behalf of foreign interests.

Khodorkovsky? Let him rot.

I have to take issue, in part:
1 - He and one other who had to flee to the UK were the ONLY of those granted a 'license to rob' who broke the rules, laid down overtly by Putin [Godfather of the looting mafia], 'thou shall not get involved in politics'.
2 -The two who were destroyed / to be destroyed both are critical of Putin's political dictatorship!
3 - Not forgiving their greed nor robbery deeds, they did demonstrate IMHO some level of morality in their opposition to Putin, which was articulately stated in more progressive terms, I see as mitigating circumstances on their crimes,
4 - That Czar Putin still pulls the strings on the 'Judiciary" and could delay ther sentence until he could make a public speech in which his orders for the verdict were spelled out is by far the greater crime.
5 - He is not being tried nor convicted for his real crimes [as you stated correctly, and the 'silent' Oligarchs are still committing with impunity], ONLY is he tried and convicted for his political crime of criticizing the Godfather!
6 - So, not denying his crimes; those having committed the same exact crime - but letting Czar/Godfather Putin do as he wishes, unchallenged - are NOT so convicted.