When Kozlovsky Met Barry (and Sigourney)
A little over two years ago, right here on PJ Media, I introduced the world to a young Russian opposition leader named Oleg Kozlovsky. Much has changed for him since then.
At the time, Kozlovsky had been illegally drafted into the army in a brazen, shameless effort to silence his heroic work pushing back against the Putin regime’s encroachments on democracy and civil society. The Kremlin seriously underestimated the young man, and furious lobbying and legal efforts on his behalf soon had him out of its hands and back to work. But for all his efforts, he was totally unknown in the West, and because of the Kremlin’s chokehold on Russian mainstream media, hardly a household name in his own country either.
The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune both picked up the story and ran major news items, and Kozlovsky was able to use this attention as a springboard to a bold op-ed in the Post condemning Putin’s “gulag stability.” When the op-ed hit the streets, Kozlovsky was cooling his heels in prison after being preemptively arrested to stop him from participating in a major opposition demonstration.
The next thing you knew, Kozlovsky had started blogging in English and come to the attention of the major U.S.-based human rights organizations and the D.C. think tanks interested in Russia, particularly the conservative American Enterprise Institute. He traveled to the nation’s capital for meetings with many of them and successfully carried his campaign into the West.
Kozlovsky wasn’t done yet. In October 2008 he was given a major human rights award for his work in Russia by Human Rights First at a red-carpet ceremony in Manhattan. His award was handed to him by Hollywood superstar Sigourney Weaver.
And it didn’t end there by a long shot. Since then, Kozlovsky has started Twittering in English, defeated a neo-Soviet KGB effort to withdraw his passport to block his foreign relations, and made several more visits to the U.S. for further meetings with rights organizations, think tanks, and universities. On February 18, he made yet another sojourn to Washington, this time to attend the 2010 Washington Human Rights Summit. He was part of a group of delegates that visited the White House and met with President Barack Obama.
Russia may …”slip back into the totalitarian abyss”.
They haven’t climbed out of it since Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Hordes and Tartars and Huns dug it for them.
Words like “Mother Russia” frighten even Russians outside the Moscovite core — as “Mother Gargoyle” would you.
God bless and protect Kozlovsky. Send him some Hollywood Hotties like Sigourney to keep him warm up there, and bring him out to chat at the Algonquin table once in a while to prove he’s alive.
The claim that Obama dose not have core beliefs is repeated over and over, but is this claim really true. Why is it so hard to believe that his core belief is at heart Marxist, all of his influences seem to embrace Marx from his grandparents and parents to his teen mentor Frank Marshal Davis. By his own admission during collage he sought out these people. After graduating ACORN and into the arms of Rev. Wright and an association with Weather Underground Marxist Bill Ayers. Look at the backgrounds of a lot of his appointments. Obama has a core belief it just dose not happen to be that of patriotic American by the standard of the constitution and the founding fathers but in Obama’s world view men like Jefferson, Washington, and Adams are dead, racist, European, white guys and as such were incapable of perceiving the utopia to be achieved through government programs.
Obama has core beliefs it is just that his are shared with Hugo Chavez, Mao, Castro and a host of other Socialist/Marxist totalitarians throughout history.
#1 pelaut:
The Golden Horde was not totalitarian. The only requirements from Chinghis Khan were yearly tribute and conscripts for wars. Beyond that, people were allowed to live as they wished.
It was this tolerance, especially concerning religion, that led St. Alexander Nevsky to stand against the Livonian Teutonic Knights sent from Poland, who wanted to bring Rus’ into Catholicism.
did Brooks find his lost backbone ? or is he seeing the writing on the wall of his toilet stall ! forever the opportunist.
Another soul reamed out by the “o” in his quest to remake America as he sees fit. . . He is not concerned about freedom ,for he wishes no one to have freedom unless they are under his ( and the mighty Federal Govt.) benevolent rule, and the freedom he allows us ( the ignorant peasantry) is only as much as we can enjoy without harming ourselves. . .
similar comments that Obama has Marxist beliefs are in his own book. Saul Alynsky, and other radicals were his idols. Rev Wright preaching Black Liberation, similar to Marxism. When will the Left leave America alone and stop trying to destroy it.
So, we should be surprised by Obama’s actions? Aren’t he and Putin kindred spirits? They share the same goal – destroy the U.S., as we know it.
“But Obama cynic though I may be, I must admit to being surprised that he would so openly confess his uselessness as a defender of American values.”
Well done, Barack Obama, all the world loves you except your angry compatriots from neo-conservative think tanks and their grantees from Russia! Neocons, Zigfeld, and Kozlowsky: no pasaran! You better complain to McCain.
BTW, there are only TWO American values: money and oil.