Observe that Brandaun Raub was arrested for calling for the imminent start of Civil War 2, whereas Pussy Riot committed numerous acts of subversion, desecration and obscenity in their own venues without encountering any response, before they were arrested for desecrating someone else’s altar in someone else’s venue.
So we are moving from the position that subversion in the US is likely to lose you your job, because your employer may be punished for your views, to the position that you yourself may be punished directly by the state. We are, however, not there yet. Brandaun Raub was predictably released. Someone is just trying it on to test the waters, and found that the US is not yet ready for direct repression of dissidents. But then, a couple of years ago, was not yet ready for gay marriage. (more…)

