Dear Gregg Keller
For officially deciding that GOProud can’t take part in an “official” capacity at CPAC, I would like to say to you the following:
A shame. I was actually hoping to attend this year.
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- narciso: www.dailywire.com/news/21362/new-york-times-omits-key-details-about-identities-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=092117-news&utm_campaign=position1
- Frederick: This is a very good explanation for why “Russian adoptions” is connected to the Magnitsky Act. Who could object to “talking about adoption”? It’s the same kind of misleading label our media uses here–who could object, for example, to “refugee* women* and children*”? *Most of whom seem to be young men of military age looking for work in Europe. Browder’s logic does trouble me in one aspect: “…In recent years Russia had restricted most American adoptions to sick children — those with HIV, Down syndrome, and spina bifida, among many other disorders. Some of these children wouldn’t survive without the medical care they would receive from their new American families. This meant that in addition to punishing American families who were waiting for Russian children to join them, Putin was also punishing, and potentially killing, defenseless orphans in his own country…” First, it doesn’t sound like Russia had any good motive in allowing only sick children to be adopted, sounds like they preferred to be rid of the expense. Secondly if we apply that logic across the board, that any sick child who isn’t allowed to go to America is being “punished” or “killed”, then does the US now have some kind of moral (and financial) obligation to all the sick children of the world, and if so why the US particularly? There are any number of other Western nations with the ability to provide care to these orphans, which have nothing to do with the Magnitsky Act. None of that of course impeaches anything Browder is saying about Putin’s evil deeds, or evil motives; he’s speaking the language a lot of people nowadays speak, either because he believes it or because he thinks he’s more likely to get a hearing if he adopts it.
- Patterico: I don't make any claims about election rigging. The series fleshes out the background of the Magnitsky Act and at most shows Veselnitskaya's ties to the Kremlin and demonstrates that she wasn't just interested in talking adoption.
- nk: He beat the Ludovico Technique?
- SPQR: Yep. https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/09/20/london-tube-bomber-part-deradicalization-program/
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