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...York Senator Hillary Clinton, a possible 2008 contender on the other side of the aisle, slammed the bill, saying it "would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself." In rallies from Milwaukee, Wis., to Los Angeles, thousands of people marched last week to protest the proposed crackdown on illegal immigrants...
...reelection of Alexander Lukashenko as President of Belarus, police early Friday morning arrested hundreds in an improvised tent camp in downtown Minsk, installed there as a token of popular protest against an election widely described as fraudulent and unrecognized by the U.S. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich discussed the overnight crackdown in a phone interview with Professor Alexander Kozulin, a presidential candidate from the opposition Social-Democratic Hramada party and one of the two top opposition leaders in Belarus...
...TIME: How did the crackdown happen...
...Kozulin: What happened last night is just a part of a general crackdown. They have been picking up people individually - not just opposition activists, but many of those who as much as dared bring food to the tent camp. Same as the Nazis arrested those trying to bring some food to concentration camps inmates. In just three days after the election, they have arrested close to 1,000 people, including the kids in the square. They had also arrested some 500 activists within the week before the election. They destroy this country's future when they stifle the people...
...does not understand is that he has triggered that revolution himself. His abuse of power has triggered the most important revolution of all - the one in people's minds. Even many of those who had sided with him are now indignant at this rape of the Constitution and crackdown on the people...