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Estonia probes into Internet call for armed uprising
Well, it's certainly getting interesting on the Eastern front ...
TALLINN -- Estonia has launched a criminal probe to try to identify who has posted calls on the Internet for the armed overthrow of the Estonian government, officials said Thursday.

"The security police have opened a criminal inquiry to identify the persons who are issuing calls on the Internet for violence targeting the sovereignty and independence of the Republic of Estonia," Piret Seeman, spokeswoman of the prosecutor's office, said in a statement. "The text of the appeal repeatedly refers to the violent seizure of power and to violent changes to Estonia's constitutional order," Seeman said.
That's a direct threat and can't be tolerated for a second. And Estonia is part of NATO.
The appeal calls for the creation of a "Russian Resistance Army" to fight the Estonian government.
I live in Estonia. I talked to several Russian friends last night who received an e-mail instructing them that a rebellion would occur on May 9, and they should arm themselves to take down the 'fascist government'. None of them had any idea how they got their e-mail addresses.
More importantly, how do they intend to respond?
Interior minister Juri Pihl said Thursday that while he hoped "the most difficult point has passed" since two nights of rioting last Thursday and Friday, "we have to be vigilant about possible breaches of the law May 9.

"There are many Internet appeals and SMS messages calling for rallies on that day, but I am asking everyone not to submit to provocation," he said.

May 9 is the day Russia, and the large ethnic Russian minority in Estonia, marks the 1945 defeat over Nazi Germany in World War II. Estonia marks the allied victory over Hitler May 8, together with the rest of Western Europe. Demonstrations have been banned until May 11 in Tallinn ...
... as well as most alcohol sales ... :-(
... and the surrounding region, following last week's riots over the removal of a Soviet war memorial. The removal of the statue has plunged Estonia into a bitter row with Moscow, which ruled over the Baltic nation for five decades after World War II ...
... don't forget the year of "rule" BEFORE World War II
... when Estonia was a Soviet republic.

Russians see the statue at the heart of the row as a sacred memorial to Red Army soldiers who defeated Nazism, while Estonians view it as a bitter reminder of the long Soviet occupation.
The statue is fine. It's in a very good place, surrounded by the honored war dead. Here are some pictures I took on May Day, surrounded by hundreds of the honored (Soviet) dead: Bronze Soldier

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. But there is plenty of stories that this entire episode has been orchestrated from the highest levels of the Kremlin. From the cyberattacks and the meetings with Russian embassy staffers with some of last week's riot instigators, to the economic boycott to the attack on the Estonian ambassador yesterday ... then you combine it with this post from the editor of City Paper with a Russian military officer (City Paper is a pan-Baltic English-language news magazine for business-oriented ex-pats) ... it looks like May 9 will be an interesting day in this part of the world.
You're not a conspiracy nut, this makes sense to me. Especially since Putin thinks the Lilliputians in the Dhimmicratic party have sufficiently tied down Dubya so that he can't act. And Blair is about to leave. And France won't act to save the Estonians even if Sark wins.
BTW, Estonians want to know -- where's the button to open the NATO umbrella, anyway?
We looked for it on 9/12 and couldn't find it.

Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2007-05-04
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