buddy,

I agree, he’s just too prominent for “wet” measures. Still, that hasn’t protected him from being arrested.

That just underscores one of the things that drives me crazy when talking with our *progressive* friends. They are SO enamored of the repressive Bush-Cheney regime rhetoric, but so clueless when presented with the real McCoy in Russia. Can you imagine the outrage if Ralph Nader were arrested, for any reason whatsoever? (Yeah, I know, Alan Keyes … )