Quote Originally Posted by dml1954 View Post
This is utter rubbish. Our Government is democratically elected and elections held every four/five years. To even compare this to what goes on in Russia is an insult to the thousands of people that have died at the hands of Putin and other similar despot rulers.
He's not directly comparing our Government with the worst of what Russia does and he's not insulting anyone who's suffered at their hands. I think his point is that it's a bit rich to judge people for not protesting when they could get imprisoned for 10 years or worse, when we allow our Government to screw us over consistently without a peep, and we don't have those fears over us (although they're actually trying to clamp down on our rights to protest via the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill)