Recently Secretary of State Clinton gave a speech to the "Community of Democracies" in which she excoriated "intolerant governments" for attacking activist and Advocacy groups.
The utter hypocrisy of attacking countries like Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Venezuela, China and Russia for the "steel vise" of repression that is "slowly crushing civil society and the human spirit," right after one attends a summit meeting such as the G20 in Canada in which social activist and advocacy groups were openly harassed, censored, arrested, and beaten is appalling.
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