Originally Posted by powerclown

Wrongly framed question imo. While it might seem petty or irresponsible to deliberately attack an opponent of an administration, it certainly isn't a unique occurence here or in any other political system in the world. I can't speak to the morality of it - lets just say I'm not as idealistic as I was as a youth. Critics of administrations will always be targetted by those in power, either literally as in the case of the outspoken Russian journalist and Putin critic who had a few bullets pumped into her head by the State, or somewhat more benignly, as in what happened here.