A little solidarity with Croatia

Croatia, neither a European Union nor a NATO member state, can "afford" to behave like an East European Slobbovia, and indeed, it has, by detaining and persecuting someone who put up a Facebook group rather harshly criticizing the Prime Minister of Slobbo... er Croatia.

The story is told here.

We, who, despite being both in the EU and NATO, have a government that sanctions Slobbovian actions by Latvia' s Security Police can only express our solidarity with the victims of the Croatian police action. Interestingly enough, the Slobbo...er Croatian police may have been inspired by one of the earliest reports in English on the free speech issues raised by the detention of the Latvian college lecturer. It was published here on a Croatian portal. It seems that someone was inspired by this...

Nobel prize winner, NYT columnist mentions Latvia case

Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist and columnist/blogger for The New York Times mentions in passing (a link to the Wall Street Journal article) the detention of Dmitrijs Smirnovs by the Latvian Security Police. Krugman jokes that this might a way for the Bush administration to deal with critics of its economic policies.