Liberty Vigil

  CNN recently posted a video about Nekoglai (Nikolai Lebedev), who was tortured by police because of a TikTok video.  A lot of the comments under the video are unbelievably callous. Many if not most are probably from russian trolls or russia sympathizers. Still, it's sad he doesn't have many defenders. Perhaps the trolls were counting on this. People don't care about russian brutality; perhaps they also blame the victim-- for a completely disproportional response. Sometimes evil is evil; cultural relativism excuses such things in the name of tolerance. But beating up someone because of a social media post-- a totally innocuous bit of free speech-- should not be tolerated. - some comments: • russia is a very rigid society with rules and expectations clearly spelled out. He should be grateful he had the opportunity to learn a lesson about appropriate behavior as an uninvited guest in a country before offending a serious no BS states such as Saudi Arabia, Thailand or Singapo...