Тихая сапа

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В январе 2005, на слушаниях в Сенате по утверждению ее кандидатуры госсекретаря Кондолиза Райс сослалась на тест выхода на площадь Натана Щаранского:

To be sure, in our world there remain outposts of tyranny - and America stands with oppressed people on every continent ... in Cuba, and Burma, and North Korea, and Iran, and Belarus, and Zimbabwe. The world should apply what Natan Sharansky calls the “town square test”: if a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society. We cannot rest until every person living in a “fear society” has finally won their freedom.

Россия тогда за диктатуру не считалась, и ее не приходилось называть с Северной Кореей и Ираном через запятую.

In Russia, we see that the path to democracy is uneven and that its success is not yet assured. Yet recent history shows that we can work closely with Russia on common problems. And as we do so, we will continue to press the case for democracy, and we will continue to make clear that the protection of democracy in Russia is vital to the future of US-Russia relations.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060321001347/http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2005/RiceTestimony050118.pdf



Что же касается теста Щаранского, до в самих США до "fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm" пока не дошло, но тень авторитаризма подкрадывается тихой сапой.

Женщина, позволившая себе спонтанный жест, проезжая на велосипеде мимо президентского кортежа, потеряла работу.

It was the middle-finger salute seen around the world.
Juli Briskman’s protest aimed at the presidential motorcade that roared past her while she was on her cycling path in Northern Virginia last month became an instantly viral photo.
Turns out it has now cost the 50-year-old marketing executive her job.
On Halloween, after Briskman gave her bosses at Akima LLC, a government contracting firm, a heads-up that she was the unidentified cyclist in the photo, they took her into a room and fired her, she said, escorting her out of the building with a box of her things.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/she-flipped-off-president-trump--and-got-fired-from-her-government-contracting-job/2017/11/06/4cf1af9a-c2da-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html



В начале этого года Кэти Рич (Katie Rich), одна из авторов-сценаристов Saturday Night Live, была на полгода отстранена от работы за неудачную шутку в Твиттере про Бэррона Трампа. Шумную кампанию протеста с требованием ее увольнения, как теперь выясняется, организовали путинские тролли.

Твиты TEN_GOP и его товарищей подхватывала и тиражировала правая пропаганда.

Saturday Night Live writer @katiemaryrich attacks 10 year old kid, Barron Trump!
Left has no boundaries, no morals. #Inauguration pic.twitter.com/EqHueBq0ln
- Tennessee GOP (@TEN_GOP) January 20, 2017

"Twitter users were outraged"
http://www.dailywire.com/news/12631/snl-writer-viciously-targets-10-year-old-barron-hank-berrien

After an unrelenting backlash by disgusted Americans on social media, the show has chosen to suspend Rich indefinitely. Roughly 80,000 people signed a Change.org petition, calling for her to be fired. Rich suspended her Twitter account following the outcry.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/12698/snl-writer-suspended-indefinitely-viciously-michael-qazvini

In the conversation with Mr. Trump, the Fox News host Sean Hannity described Barron as “a wonderful, smart, charming kid,” adding: “And then, they attack him. That’s got to hurt you and Melania.”
Mr. Trump replied: “Well, ‘Saturday Night Live’ - a person from ‘Saturday Night Live’ was terrible. It’s a failing show. It’s not funny. Alec Baldwin’s a disaster. He’s terrible on the show and, by the way, I don’t mind some humor but it’s terrible. But for them to attack, for NBC to attack my 10-year-old son -”
Mr. Hannity said, “Horrible.”
Mr. Trump continued: “It’s a disgrace. He’s a great boy. And it’s not an easy thing for him. Believe me.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/arts/barron-trump-snl-writers-joke-donald-trump.html

The suspension of Katie Rich from SNL does not bode well for free speech. We should all be a little more scared than we were yesterday.
- Nikki Glaser (@NikkiGlaser) January 23, 2017