It's not quite this bad yet, is it?

[tuvor]

Journalist investigated for mocking Putin

MOSCOW - Prosecutors are investigating a journalist for publishing an article mocking President
Vladimir Putin over his call to pay Russian women to have more children, an official said Wednesday.

The article was published by Vladimir Rakhmankov, editor of the online newspaper Kursiv in the central city of Ivanovo, said Andrei Galchenko of the regional prosecutor's office.

The piece poked fun at Putin's recent state of the nation address that called for economic incentives to boost the country's plummeting birth rate. Russian media reported that the publication suggested that animals at a local zoo increased their mating, heeding Putin's call.

Rakhmankov could not be reached for comment Wednesday. His article could not be seen, because the Web site has been shut down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/russia_ribbing_putin

[Vexatious Ape]

1. That could be us.

If we don't change the power structure in Washington--soon.

[Erika]

2. Sounds like something John Gibson and Faux News would do

But then they would say that an irresponsible poor American producing babies should be become indentured servants for the wealthy rich and the babies raised by the wealthy rich. The indentured servant should be happy to serve an employer who is so kind as to employ them and steal their child.

W's America.

[Vexatious Ape]

3. Yes,

and it sounds like something our attorney general would do: Jail Journalists.