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I know someone in prison right now that was convicted with no evidence -- no forensics, video, nothing. Just based on someone's testimony. In the U.S. you only get as much justice as you can afford to pay for.

Hadn't heard of the author or series so thanks for introducing me.

Thank you for your information. I have 9 or 10 letters written to my grandmother from her brother during WW1. They are mostly stamped between 1916 and 1918 and have the censor clearance stamp on the front of each envelope. Thanks again for your information.

Always looking for good hair products. Thanks for highlighting it.

I do thoroughly recommend them. Try out the free reads on-line, then migrate to actual books when you realize how wonderful a writer he is. That's what I've been doing. :D

You've convinced me to read these stories, Jo.

It really was. I ended up lying awake until about 4am just to finish 'After the Siege'. I'd gone to bed tired at 3am, planning to just start another story. Yeah, right...

Amazing review, Jo. Seems like an amazing book.

I don't know. They're already in a penal colony, which was originally built as a Gulag. But the whole world is watching here, which makes things very awkward.

It's certainly going to be interesting seeing what does happen to Pussy Riot. They are representing a lot of prisoners, and they are in situ learning things and talking about them on an international platform.

If Putin had been paying attention to what happened in some other countries nearby, he would have been able to predict that the Internet would go "viral". And lucky for the Pussy Riot, they will not be able to be sent to "mental institutions" or hard labour in Siberia.

I think that the viral popularity of this action, around the world, has taken Putin's government by surprise. But such 'trials' never really ended, which was the point that Pussy Riot have been making in their songs. This has just washed away the veneer a bit.

Mind you, it's not quite as bad as it was in the past, if only in terms of scale.

I had no idea there were so many variants available. Thanks for sharing this.

Yes, this has all been quite a mystery to me as I watched what happened (and, like Katie, I was wondering who would pick up the gauntlet here on wizzley and take on this topic). It reminds me of the "trials" and exile of activists and writers way back in the days of the Prisoners of Conscience in the former USSR.

I caught a hint of the fact that there was going to be another BXPW. I thought that the person was mistaken, because it had already been announced that there would be no more. So it is on again?

I logged in the other day and just had a 700k xp lamp sitting in my bag, plus some Fate cards. It took me a while to check them out, because of all the SoF spam and then a random. The time before that, I'd got a 350k xp lamp just sitting there. I shouldn't be rewarded for not logging in for over a month!

What's fun about being given everything on a plate?

You're welcome and I'm glad you liked it.

Incidentally, random back-linking in blog comments is apparently bad SEO these days.