The liberal American "journal of politics and the arts",
The New Republic (TNR), has noted the detention of Dmitrijs Smirnovs for his comments on the Latvian economy and currency. A blog,
The Plank, on the TNR website draws the clear and simple conclusion:
"There is no excuse for such a breach of civil liberties, particularly in a country well on its way to full membership in the club of the west."
This is a simple enough English sentence for most of the Latvian government and even some of the parliament, the Saeima to read and understand.
Thanks to an email from a friend for bringing this to my attention. The full post on the
TNR blog can be read
here (yes, the author does say there is "an explanation" for Latvia's behavior).
