NEWS AND VIEWS THAT IMPACT LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams
Eastern Europeans are fighting back against the surge in pedophilic assaults on young children.
Belarus is updating its national criminal code to include the chemical castration of convicted pedophiles, and members of Russia’s national legislature are pushing for that nation to follow suit, with members of the State Duma mulling legislation that will mandate the chemical castration of convicted pedophiles before they complete their sentences in prison and are released back into society.
Belarus, the small nation adjacent to Russia that acts as one of its staunchest allies, has announced that the chemical castration of pedophiles will soon become a standard part of the prescribed punishment for those found to have raped and sexually molested children.
The General Prosecutor’s Office in Belarus recently announced that chemical castration will be part of the “compulsory treatment of persons suffering from pedophilia.”
According to reports from Eastern European media outlets, the Belarusian Health Ministry has created and approved “a clinical protocol containing an algorithm for the treatment of pedophilia, including the use of chemical castration.”
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, supports the measure and is also calling for convicted pedophiles to be tracked with electronic monitoring bracelets, somewhat similar to those worn by American convicts who are placed under house arrest.
In neighboring Russia, members of the national legislature are planning to follow suit, and legislation has been introduced and supported in the State Duma, the Russian equivalent of the United States House of Representatives, that would implement the compulsory chemical castration of convicted pedophiles. Currently, Russia has laws in place that allow child rapists to voluntarily be chemically castrated.
From left: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a signing ceremony during the Summit of Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on May 29 in Astana, Kazakhstan.
The U.S. Needs To Grow Up
Russia first began to form in 862 AD. Their nation existed long before European colonists landed in North America. But American politicians basically treat the Russians like trash that has no right to exist. Never mind that we Americans cannot even get our astronauts into space without Russian space ships. We should be allies with Russia against Islam and on other issues, but American politicians need an "enemy" to flog to distract voters from their domestic problems.
Now Russia has finalized the large Eurasian Economic Union free trade zone. Like the EU, over time this new union will massively grow the economies of eastern Europe and Asia.
Russia and four other ex-Soviet nations on Tuesday completed the creation of a new economic alliance intended to bolster their integration, but the ambitious grouping immediately showed signs of fracture as the leader of Belarus sharply criticized Moscow.
The Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, comes to existence on Jan. 1. In addition to free trade, it's to coordinate the members' financial systems and regulate their industrial and agricultural policies along with labor markets and transportation networks.
Russia had tried to encourage Ukraine to join, but its former pro-Moscow president was ousted in February following months of protests. Russia then annexed Ukraine's Black Sea Crimean Peninsula, and a pro-Russia mutiny has engulfed eastern Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the new union will have a combined economic output of $4.5 trillion and bring together 170 million people.
"The Eurasian integration is based on mutual benefit and taking into account mutual interests," he said after the talks reports the Associated Press.
But Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko cracked the ceremonial veneer of the meeting by launching a harsh attack on Moscow for damaging Belarus' economic interests with moves to restrict its exports to Russia.
Belarus, sandwiched between Russia and European Union members Poland and Lithuania, has profited handsomely from Moscow's ban on imports of EU food in retaliation to Western sanctions against Russia by boosting imports of food from the EU nations and reselling it to Russia.
The Russian authorities have retaliated by halting imports of Belarus' own milk and meat, citing alleged sanitary reasons, and banning transit of Belarusian food bound for Kazakhstan through its territory on suspicion that much of it ended up in Russia.
"In violation of all international norms, we have faced a ban on transit," Lukashenko said. "It was done in a unilateral way and without any consultations."
Eurasian Economic Union a huge wake-up call for US
Supreme Eurasian Economic Council summit. (RIA Novosti/Alexei Druzhinin)
The Road to Serfdom Belarusian Ruler Introduces Forced
Employment
Socialist Government bans workers form quiting their jobs at state owned businesses.
"You will be sentenced to compulsory labor and sent back here if you leave."
The Serfs of Europe were first created in 332 AD by the Roman Emperor Constantine. He issued legislation that greatly restricted the rights of farm workers and tied them to the land.
Serfdom is making a comeback all around the world.
Now in Socialist Belarus workers like Vladimir Dodonov want to flee the nation for neighboring Russia before it becomes
illegal to leave his job at a wood-processing plant.
Belarus' authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has decided to stem
an exodus of qualified workers to Russia, starting by banning those who work in
wood-processing industries from quitting.
Critics have compared the measure to
serfdom and warned that it would only deepen the former Soviet republic's
economic troubles and fuel protests against Lukashenko reports the Associated Press.
Dodonov, 37, who earns the equivalent of $140 a month at the Borisovdrev
plant, says he could make several times as much in Russia and would have left
earlier if he hadn't had to care for his ailing mother. "How can you survive on
such a miserable salary?" he said this week. "Naturally, I'm thinking about
leaving for Russia before they turn me into a slave."
Europe's Last Dictatorship - Belarus
"You will be sentenced to compulsory labor and sent back here if you leave,"
Lukashenko warned Friday during a visit to the plant, located in the industrial
city of Borisov, about 70 kilometers (some 45 miles) east of the Belarusian
capital, Minsk.
The president said his decree would apply to more than 13,000 employees of
nine state-run wood-processing plants and 2,000-3,000 construction workers
involved in modernizing them. Lukashenko said on a visit to the plant that his
decree would become effective on Dec. 1. Even though he hasn't signed it yet,
Borisovdrev workers who tried to quit this week were barred from doing so by the
administration under various pretexts. .
Lukashenko promised to raise an average worker's salary at the plant from the
current $150 a month to $400-$500, roughly what it would be in Russia. He
pledged to increase it further to $1,000 by 2015, but some of the workers were
skeptical.
"My children want to eat now without waiting for 2015," said Nikolai
Khmelevsky, 42, who currently earns about $200 a month at the Borisovdrev plant.
"I have been looking for another job, and now they will tie me here."
Managers at the Borisovdrev plant, a set of grim-looking Soviet-era
buildings, refused to comment. The plant and other wood-processing plants are
part of a concern that is 100 percent owned by the state, as are most Belarusian
industries. The wood-processing plants export most of their output to Russia and
Europe.
Nikolai Pokhabov, the leader of an independent union in Borisov, warned that
Lukashenko's order could spark protests. "The government is trying to solve
problems with a stick at the workers' expense," the union leader said. "But it
fails to understand that threats and reliance on the stick will only push
workers to flee the country or stage protests."
Alexander Klaskovsky, an independent Minsk-based analyst, said that
Lukashenko may later try to expand the measure to other sectors of the economy.
"Amid a severe economic crisis, Lukashenko is launching a risky experiment that
could later be spread to the entire economy," Klaskovsky said. "It amounts to
Lukashenko introducing elements of slavery in 21st century Europe."
About one million people in the nation of 10 million are estimated to be
working abroad, most of them in neighboring Russia, Ukraine, Poland and
Lithuania. One of the ironies of the situation is that Russia, which is seen as
a prized destination by Belarusian workers, itself prevented its people from
working abroad during Soviet times, through tight restrictions on exit
visas.
Serfs in Europe Forced by their Lords and Masters in government to work at the same jobs for generations so the ruling class could live the high life.
A pariah in the West, Lukashenko also often has tense relations with Moscow,
which has been angered by his resistance to yielding control over Belarusian
industries to Russian business. Lukashenko has kept most of the economy in state
hands, but he is dependent on cheap energy and loans provided by Russia.
Last year, Belarus saw a sharp devaluation of its currency and inflation
exceeding 100 percent after Lukashenko raised public sector wages in a populist
move to ensure his re-election.
Lukashenko has managed to quell the public discontent thanks to new loans
from Russia, but analysts warn that the country of 10 million may soon drift
into a new crisis as it faces mounting foreign debt payments. Russia may not be
eager to provide more aid or make it contingent on Lukashenko surrendering
control over more economic assets.
"The Soviet-style economy has exhausted its resources and the Kremlin has
become increasingly reluctant to issue loans," said Yaroslav Romanchuk, the head
of Mises Research Center in Minsk. "Lukashenko has to invent abnormal motives in
the absence of regular economic mechanisms."
A Serf bows to his
Lord. In the old days
Serfs served as tax slaves, working the land and forced to turn over the wealth
they produced to their Lords and Masters in Government in return for
"protection". That sounds more and more like our so-called modern society.
The
world is moving toward a modern form of Neo-Serfdom
where everyone works for the all-powerful State or businesses controlled by the
State. A world where individual property rights and economic freedom do not
exist.
FREEDOM
IS VANISHING:
What happens when the major employers are owned by government backed investment
groups, or your food comes from government owned farms, or your news is
delivered by so-called "private" corporations but are in reality connected and
interconnected to governments?
George
Orwell had a name for it: Big Brother.
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