... seems to have been at it again:

Boris Berezovsky, an exiled Russian billionaire and fierce opponent of the Kremlin, confirmed today that police found radioactive traces in his offices following the death last week of his close associate, Alexander Litvinenko, allegedly poisoned by radiation.

So far the toll has been impressive -- at least the toll we know about. We have the residents of the Volgodonsk apartment which were allegedly bombed by the Russian government agents. And let's not forget how Putin imprisoned businessman and political activist Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Soon after, Khodorkovsky's British lawyer, Stephen Curtis, was killed in a helicopter crash, after having received threats; he had told a relative: "If anything happens in the next two weeks, it won't be an accident."

Then we have the attempted poisoning of Vicktor Yushchenko (pictured above), anti-Russian Ukrainian presdential candidate. Then we have the Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist who was violently assassinated after a failed poisoning attempt. Additionally, other journalists working at her paper have also received threats. And now we have the poisoning of Litvinenko, and an apparent attempt on one of his close associates.

And let's not mention the coups and attempted coups which have deposed democratically-elected leaders in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine, and did or would have replaced them with more Russian-policy-friendly leaders.

I remember how Bush was protested around the world, when people alleged that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were thinly-veiled attempts to steal oil and make these nations part of the US "Empire". I remember how the protestors in Europe were so touchingly concerned with Bush's alleged opposition to Democracy.

So I'm eagerly expecting the protests which will break out in the streets -- any minute now -- to protest Putin's despotism, thuggery, assassinations, and attempts to bring more and more countries under Russian control.

Any minute now.

I'm been making this complaint for a long time. I can only conclude that the aforementioned leftist protestors aren't interested in opposing real evil. "Evil", in their minds, is typified by a conservative Christian US president -- not a former KGB agent who actually murders anyone who is trying to expose what he does in secret, and who really did, apparently, kill innocent people from his own country in order to provoke a bloody war. That doesn't concern them anywhere near as much.

That protest march is just not on their schedule for today.

Or next month.

Or ever.