Latvia's 'Robin Hood' hacker unmasked as AI researcher

Surely Russell Crowe

is the modern day Robin Hood

Finest example of hacktivism

I've heard of in a long time! My hat's off to him.

Passport

..will now probably be taken away and he will no longer be a proper Latvian citizen. At least that is how these three little racist countries treat people who have moved there during the soviet times. It is beyond my comprehension why the EU tolerates these shitty states.

And NATO fighters are protecting their airspace.... Sometimes I can actually understand the British eurosceptics.

Shame they tracked his tweets!

I admire his aims to expose the hypocrisy of the political classes. For the normal worker it appears nothing has changed in Latvia, since the old ruse of communist egalitarian wages.

At a primitive level, I do hanker for an open society where all wages are disclosed. However, I cannot imagine how such a libertarian utopian world would not collapse, whether it be through jealousy or guilt.

@What do you call it

I call it a shitty, rascist state who denies ITS CITIZENS, who are "ethnic russians" a passport, making them stateless, because they are not "ethnic latvians/estonians".

They must be kicked out of the EU if they don't change this right now. And then left to Russia to fix that problem.

I always thought it were commie propaganda to label these people Nazis, but apparently quite a few of them (at least in their governments) are exactly that - Nazis.

Estonia And Its Ethinc "Russian" Citizens

http://flonnet.com/fl2621/stories/20091023262106000.htm

Among other nasty facts, read this:

"Russians in Estonia are also deeply insulted by the glorification of Estonian Second World War veterans who fought on the side of Nazi Germany. Every year Estonia hosts reunion meetings of Waffen-SS veterans attended by fascist sympathisers from other countries."

"After the Bronze Soldier incident, the number of ethnic Russians in Estonia applying for Russian passports increased threefold. Russian passport holders today total 100,000; about 200,000 Russian speakers have Estonian passports, and 120,000 are non-citizens. "

Every piece of shit can become part of the EU and NATO, it seems. Probably Lybia and Syria will be the next EU members. They have a better human rights record.

Latvia Not Better

http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2010/04/20/is-latvia-the-eus-israel/

"Dmitrijs is not an immigrant. Like most of the people in this room, he was born in Latvia. In fact, even his parents were born here.

But his family is ethnically Russian. And because they moved here while Latvia was part of the USSR, he is not automatically eligible for Latvian nationality.

Instead he is classed as a so-called resident alien. Only those born after Latvian independence in 1991 automatically receive citizenship.

The words in Latvian for “non-citizen” are printed in large bold letters on the cover of Dmitrijs’ passport.

This means he can’t vote, can’t work in many state-employed positions and often has trouble crossing borders."

Passport

Apart from that issue with Statue of the Red Army Soldier, denying a citizen a passport is simply a cruelty that cannot be accepted in the EU.

If we start to try to settle very old scores, 20% of the English population could be labelled "descendants of brutal opressors invading from Brittany in the year 1066".

I know that Stalin and the whole communist system was evil and brutal, but we can't make the "ethnic Russians" pay for that in the year 2010. And all those Latvian/Estonian/Lithuanian SS soldiers probably also comitted their share of atrocities, by the way.

My idealist view of the EU is that it is committed to democracy, human rights and (basic) equality of all citizens. All soviet citizens living in the territory that is now the EU have the same right of respective national citizenship of their EU country. Those governments who deny this must be expelled from the EU and NATO.