Condi want to protect people from "the arbitraty power of the state".

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

In Russia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071013/ts_nm/russia_usa_rights_dc_4;_ylt=ApF7AC2jMTTd99AjJZ1RrXQE1vAI

MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Russian human rights activists on Saturday she wanted to help them build institutions to protect people from the 'arbitrary power of the state'.

"I think that there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin," she later told reporters.

"I am quite confident that your goal is to build institutions that are indigenous to Russia -- that are Russian institutions -- but that are also respectful of what we all know to be universal values," said Rice.

She said these were: "The rights of individuals to liberty and freedom, the right to worship as you please, and the right to assembly, the right to not have to deal with the arbitrary power of the state."

"How is it going and what can we do to help Russia to build strong institutions that have these universal values?"

[Canuckistanian]

1. Well, then, come home, you're needed here

Irony truly is dead isn't it?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[eppur_se_muova]

9. That's about the only appropriate comment there is. nt

[DuaneBidoux]

2. Of course the real problem (though she wouldn't say it) is that she and Bush aren't running it.

[Lint Head]

3. Condi is an opportunistic liar.

Her lies have resulted in the deaths of innocent people. :dem:

[TwilightGardener]

4. Condi, gleefully oblivious to irony.

[sakabatou]

5. Condi, you owe me an irony meter

[JDPriestly]

6. So, stop monitoring people's phone calls and internet usage.

Do away with the pig pens for demonstrators. Let Bush speak to randomly selected audiences rather than handpicked sycophants. Loosen up a little. Realize that most Americans are not a threat to good government, but a support. Condi just mouths wisdom. She doesn't really believe what she says, much less live it. She is too much of a control freak to make society freer.

Are the Russians limiting freedom of religion these days? I haven't heard anything about religious repression lately.

[tabasco]

7. "Just look at all the freedom we're spreadin' in Iraq!" says Condi.

"I'm here from the Bush regime to help you!"

[seemslikeadream]

8. "I think that there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin,"

and the Armenian Genocide didn't happen, ya I'm a holocaust denier, what's ya gonna do about it, sig the president of Columbia University on me?