Belarus Election Results Tainted

One of the last, if not the last of dictatorships in Europe, has re-elected Alexander Lukashenko. Criticisms of election tampering and fixing the vote have come from his competitors. However, anyone that really speaks up with be delt with KGB style.

(AFP)The country's KGB security service claims that would-be protestors are part of a Western-backed coup plot and could be executed or imprisoned for life as "terrorists."

That almost sounds like what is going on here. Except for the executed part, unless your are Arab. Then all bets are off.

One voter, Yelena Lisenkova, 76, praised Lukashenko for "getting rid of all the drunks who didn't want to work."

"We need to get rid of the opposition so they don't organise riots, and don't interfere in our state," she said after casting her ballot in Minsk.
So why shouldn't we step in and help?

Now that sounds more like the Republican way.

Moscow has warned the West not to meddle. Russia supports Belarus' growing economy with cheap energy supplies and the two countries are also in continuing talks on forming a "union state."