MORE PROOF THAT PUTIN'S RUSSIA IS MARCHING BACK TOWARD TYRANNY

NYTIMES:

Western election observers on Friday pulled out of a mission to monitor Russia’s Dec. 2 parliamentary vote, citing restrictions imposed by the Kremlin on their work.

The cancellation by the election-monitoring arm of the 56-member Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe means the elections being held by President Vladimir V. Putin’s government may not be seen as legitimate by Western Europe and the United States.

The group’s decision to withdraw from the monitoring mission was the first such occurrence in Russia since the country undertook to hold free and fair elections and to allow access for observers to monitor them in 1990, as the Soviet Union was disintegrating. It will probably be seen as another breach between the government of Mr. Putin and the West.

The group, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, or O.D.I.H.R., cited what it called unacceptable Russian demands to limit the mission’s size, making it impossible to determine whether the elections are marred by fraud.

NO ONE FROM THE KGB SHOULD EVER BE TRUSTED:

• THE KGB CREATED ARAFAT - (MORE HERE). STEERED THE VIETNAM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT - (MORE HERE), AND SPREAD THE TERROR WHICH ENABLED THE POLITBURO TO TYRANNIZE RUSSIA AND IT'S SATELLITES AND THE CAPTIVES OF EASTERN EUROPE.

• AS LONG AS PUTIN AND HIS KGB GANG IS IN CONTROL, RUSSIA IS A MAJOR THREAT. THEY'RE BAD PEOPLE WHO CELEBRATE DECEIT, MISCHIEF AND TERROR.

• UNLESS WE GET TOUGHER, THESE THUGS WILL CONTINUE TO AID IRAN, SYRIA AND THE FOES OF DEMOCRACY. AND TO ASSASSINATE THOSE WHO SEEK TO STOP IT.

• TO DIMINISH THE POWER OF RUSSIA - AND OUR OTHER ENEMIES, WE SHOULD BE OIL-DRILLING OFF OUR COASTS AND IN ALASKA - INCLUDING ANWR, AND BUILDING COAL-BURNING AND NUCLEAR POWER-PLANTS.

• THE LEFT HERE IN THE USA IS PREVENTING THESE POLICIES -AND THEREBY STRENGTHENING THE RUSSIAN TYRANTS.

• WHICH IS A VERY FAMILIAR ROLE FOR THEM.

WHICH IS WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT WE MUST DEFEAT THE LEFT AT HOME IOF WE WANT TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY ABROAD.

• TODAY, THE ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY AND FREE ENTERPRISE ARE THE SOCIALISTS AND THE JIHADISTS.

• TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY AND FREE ENTERPRISE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME, WE MUST STOP THEM BOTH. EVERYWHERE.

NOW.