Тихая сапа

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В январе 2005, на слушаниях в Сенате по утверждению ее кандидатуры госсекретаря Кондолиза Райс сослалась на тест выхода на площадь Натана Щаранского:

To be sure, in our world there remain outposts of tyranny – and America stands with oppressed people on every continent ... in Cuba, and Burma, and North Korea, and Iran, and Belarus, and Zimbabwe. The world should apply what Natan Sharansky calls the “town square test”: if a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society. We cannot rest until every person living in a “fear society” has finally won their freedom.

Россия тогда за диктатуру не считалась, и ее не приходилось называть с Северной Кореей и Ираном через запятую.

In Russia, we see that the path to democracy is uneven and that its success is not yet assured. Yet recent history shows that we can work closely with Russia on common problems. And as we do so, we will continue to press the case for democracy, and we will continue to make clear that the protection of democracy in Russia is vital to the future of US-Russia relations.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060321001347/http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2005/RiceTestimony050118.pdf



Что же касается теста Щаранского, до в самих США до "fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm" пока не дошло, но тень авторитаризма подкрадывается тихой сапой.

Женщина, позволившая себе спонтанный жест, проезжая на велосипеде мимо президентского кортежа, потеряла работу.

It was the middle-finger salute seen around the world.
Juli Briskman’s protest aimed at the presidential motorcade that roared past her while she was on her cycling path in Northern Virginia last month became an instantly viral photo.
Turns out it has now cost the 50-year-old marketing executive her job.
On Halloween, after Briskman gave her bosses at Akima LLC, a government contracting firm, a heads-up that she was the unidentified cyclist in the photo, they took her into a room and fired her, she said, escorting her out of the building with a box of her things.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/she-flipped-off-president-trump--and-got-fired-from-her-government-contracting-job/2017/11/06/4cf1af9a-c2da-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html

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Книжки

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Хиллари Клинтон продолжает поездки по стране с презентаций своей книги "What Happened".
http://hillaryclintonmemoir.com/events.html

Глава в книге, которая называется Trolls, Bots, Fake News, and Real Russians открывается эпиграфом из "Преступления и наказания" Достоевского (в оригинале "Не рассудок, так бес!").

.@HillaryClinton tells NH questioner favorite book is Dostoevsky "Brothers Karamazov" (tell Putin!) #HillaryTODAY

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) October 5, 2015

Глава начинается с рассуждения про иммунную систему демократии и про то, как ее ослабление позволило проникнуть чужеродным элементам.

In 2016 our democracy was assaulted by a foreign adversary determined to mislead our people, enflame our divisions, and throw an election to its preferred candidate. That attack succeeded because our immune system had been slowly eroded over years. Many Americans had lost faith in the institutions that previous generations relied on for objective information, including government, academia, and the press, leaving them vulnerable to a sophisticated misinformation campaign. There are many reasons why this happened, but one is that a small group of right-wing billionaires—people like the Mercer family and Charles and David Koch—recognized long ago that, as Stephen Colbert once joked, “reality has a well-known liberal bias.” More generally, the right spent a lot of time and money building an alternative reality. Think of a partisan petri dish where science is denied, lies masquerade as truth, and paranoia flourishes. Their efforts were amplified in 2016 by a presidential candidate who trafficked in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet; a candidate who deflected any criticism by attacking others with made-up facts and an uncanny gift for humiliating zingers. He helped to further blur news and entertainment, reality TV and reality.

Глава заканчивается призывом к защите демократии.

I know some will dismiss everything in this chapter as me trying to shift blame for my loss in 2016. That’s wrong. This is about the future. In the nineteenth century, nations fought two kinds of wars: on land and at sea. In the twentieth century, that expanded to the skies. In the twenty-first century, wars will increasingly be fought in cyberspace. Yet our President is too proud, too weak, or too shortsighted to face this threat head-on. No foreign power in modern history has attacked us with so few consequences, and that puts us all at risk.
I’m not saying this as a Democrat or as a former candidate. I’m saying this as someone who loves our country and will always be grateful for the blessings America has given to me and to the world. I’m worried. I’m worried about our democracy at home, with lies and corruption threatening our bedrock values, institutions, and the rule of law. And I’m worried about the future of democracy around the world. Generations of farsighted leaders on both sides of the Atlantic came together to build a new liberal order out of the ashes of World War II. They defended universal human rights, defied totalitarianism, and delivered unprecedented peace, prosperity, and freedom. As Americans, that is our inheritance. We should be proud of it and we should protect it. But now, between Trump and Putin, all that is at risk.

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