Okay, so maybe this is a marginal figure, not representative of the “orange” mainstream

Okay, so maybe this is a marginal figure, not representative of the “orange” mainstream.” Nope. In

this little biography, Lukyanenko is described as not only a member of the Rada, but a former

ambassador to Canada and a founding member of the Helsinki Watch Group, not to mention “the co-author

of the Declaration of Ukrainian National Sovereignty and the author of the Act of the Proclamation of

Ukrainian Independence.” On April 20, he was presented with the title “Hero of Ukraine” by President

Viktor Yushchenko.

As if the slaughter unleashed by Uzbekistan’s Islam Karimov, a staunch American ally in the “war on

terrorism,” wasn’t enough, another pro-MBT commie dictator, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, is mowing down

protestors in the streets: 22 dead, so far, dozens wounded, and opposition leaders are in jail.

The protestors, many of them students, were outraged that the MBT appeared to have rigged the election

returns. Ethiopia’s recent election, marked by a complete absence of transparency and fairness, was

widely touted as a “test of democracy.” I give Ethiopian “president” Zenawi an F-minus.

Sharansky paled, and muttered that the Palestinians are out to “destroy us.” If the case for

democracy in his own part of the world is vague, at best, it dissolves into mist when it comes to

Uzbekistan, however. The Forward reports Sharansky’s outlandish praise for the regime of Islam

Karimov, the mass-murderering dictator of Uzbekistan:

“In an interview with the Israeli daily Novosti Nedeli last August, Sharansky said that terrorism

threats were a reminder that Karimov’s uncompromising stance against extremists was justified,

according to the BBC monitoring service.