Talk about Fascism
My two Colonos friends have some interesting remarks on Naomi Wolf’s alarm-bells over Fascism in the USA. States of Exception – not what you thought…
Meanwhile in Siberia, the real Far Right is in cahoots with the police and nuclear developers, and delivering serious blows to the ecology movement. The killing of Ilya Borodeanko at an eco-protest camp last summer was only the beginning, reports the Wall Street Journal. Turns out the son of a leading local environmental campaigner was involved – apparently a disaffected kid who fell in with right-wing footbal fans, later recruited (by who?) to carry out the attack:
Allies have closed ranks around Ms. Rikhvanova, but they say the attack and Pavel’s arrest have badly dented the image of Irkutsk’s environmental movement.
“In russia, there is a feeling that in an ordinary family, children support their parents,” said Maksim Vorontsov, a member of the National Bolshevik Party, which has worked closely with Ms. Rikhvanova. “Now people are wondering why children might be attacking their parents. They are saying [ecologists] must be abnormal.”
Ms. Rikhvanova set out her own views on the attack in a letter she wrote to erstwhile allies in the ecology movement. She said she later learned that the security company that hired her son, called Continent, was owned by a top official in the Union of Right Forces, a political party that was once headed by the man who now runs Russia’s atomic-energy agency.
Today she says she suspects that Stepan and possibly her son’s employer had some kind of link with the security services, and that her son was lured into the attack to help ruin Baikal Wave.
What is scarier about this situation: that the state and the fash have struck a horrible blow, or that Baikal Wave was working with the National Bolsheviks to begin with?