TSA Tyranny Causes Diplomatic Incidents With India

The US government, and especially the TSA, have got to stop being so paranoid. The TSA tried to force an Indian UN envoy to let them search his turban.

In another incident another representative of India was subjected to a random pat down simply because she was wearing a sari.

Airport security has got to be more relaxed.

Iranian Dissident Set To Be Executed!!

Right now in Iran a man named Habbibolah Latifi, 29, a Kurdish activist, is on the verge of being executed. He seem to be scheduled to be executed on December 26.

In order to make this act as difficult for the Iranian authorities as possible I would encourage you to sign this petition, We want freedom for habib latifi at (http://www.gopetition.com/petition/40470/sign.html). You can sign anonymously.

Perhaps it is too late already, but it would be good to know that we tried to make this as difficult for the Iranian authorities as possible. This is a cause worth raising our voices for.

Russia Becoming Totalitarian?

Here's a very sad story from the New York Times detailing how one opposition party was handicapped by local authorities.

This reminds me of how I read of how Yuli Martov, a prominent leader of the Mensheviks, used to be shouted down by Bolshevik operatives during governmental meetings during that brief time when rival parties were (just barely) tolerated by the Soviet government after that most infamous coup of November 1917.