Saudi Arabia Sentences Journalist to Five Years in Prison for Insulting the Kingdom’s Rulers

Over the weekend, I published a post titled Al Jazeeza Presenter to Saudi Ambassador – “Why Support Democracy in Syria but Not Saudi Arabia?” in which the Saudi Ambassador claimed subjects of Saudi Arabia don’t want or need elections because they are so enamored with the absolute monarchy’s management of society. Yes, and I just had lunch with the Easter Bunny.

Not that you need additional evidence demonstrating the ridiculousness of his answer, but I’ll provide some anyway…

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