As far as the "silence" from the protesters and their relatives and friends, I've got this very weird sneaking suspicion (you heard it here first!) that most or all of them don't exist. The arrests, unlawful detention, abuse, etc, are all just to frighten the public.
The same howling silence is all around the issue. Where are their families, friends and lawyers making public statements and being interviewed by alt-media? Shouldn't there be show trials? Isn't there a single govt whistleblower who bailed out after becoming worried about personally getting in trouble for all this? Nope, just a slow drip, drip of "right or wrong, everyone better watch their step or you'll end up like these poor fucks."
Personally, I think Russia knows all this and trolled the US government. They came out with a statement about the 400 and whatever number of political prisoners the US was holding. First I ever heard a specific number, actually.
So what's the US supposed to say? "Hey, you're wrong, it's all a psyop on our own citizens!", or "Yeah, we do have political prisoners because we're totalitarians like the Bolsheviks!" No, if what I think is correct there's nothing they could say. And what did they actually say? Nothing.
As far as the "silence" from the protesters and their relatives and friends, I've got this very weird sneaking suspicion (you heard it here first!) that most or all of them don't exist. The arrests, unlawful detention, abuse, etc, are all just to frighten the public.
The same howling silence is all around the issue. Where are their families, friends and lawyers making public statements and being interviewed by alt-media? Shouldn't there be show trials? Isn't there a single govt whistleblower who bailed out after becoming worried about personally getting in trouble for all this? Nope, just a slow drip, drip of "right or wrong, everyone better watch their step or you'll end up like these poor fucks."
Personally, I think Russia knows all this and trolled the US government. They came out with a statement about the 400 and whatever number of political prisoners the US was holding. First I ever heard a specific number, actually.
So what's the US supposed to say? "Hey, you're wrong, it's all a psyop on our own citizens!", or "Yeah, we do have political prisoners because we're totalitarians like the Bolsheviks!" No, if what I think is correct there's nothing they could say. And what did they actually say? Nothing.