@kravietz @randahl
Unfortunately, good legal groundwork is nothing in the absence of legal culture/tradition that simply never existed here, this gave rise to badly written laws with vague wording, for example the ill-famous article 282 "Incitement to ethnic or racial hatred", which became the main device for the state to use against its "enemies", then came even more of them.
@kravietz @randahl
And as it was always about corner cases here, not some fundamental principles, following the letter, but not the spirit of law, coupled with badly written laws is what enables them to be
> applied selectively, so if you was a member of a specific caste they were never applied to you and if you were a member of another group, they were applied at double harshness
In a country with mature legal system such laws simply would've never passed.
@kravietz @randahl
What was more surprising is that the international community swallowed it up — they were quite comfortable with Pooteen doing whatever he wanted domestically until he started waging wars — and after he started doing even that, they've attempted to sweep it under the rug at least twice.