Yea right, because America is so perfect, Mr Costas...

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51. I never saw you as someone who would try that old emotional manipulation thing.

It doesn't work on me, never has. I know where I stand as does everyone who knows me and your attempts at emotional manipulation will do nothing other than lose you any credibility I have given you in the past.

The US, I will repeat, does not have the moral standing to attack ANYONE else on issues of human rights and can only harm the victims of human rights abusers by taking up their cause, providing those who are abusers with ammunition to point those fingers right back at us, until we clean up our own act right here.

I don't much care whether YOU see the harm in having someone who themselves is an abuser taking up a cause they clearly do not support, that is your problem, not mine. I will continue to point out hypocrisy and harm to those I care about.

I suppose you don't care much about the pleas from Russian Gays to the US to stop using this issue for their own political purposes as it was putting them in danger rather than helping them. I respect their request since I don't live there and assume they know what they are talking about.