Amira writes: "If silencing Pussy Riot's anti-Putinism was the objective here, then you could argue that, regardless of the punishment they've received, the government has failed."
Three members of the Russian punk band 'Pussy Riot' were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism. (photo: Reuters)
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Long live these courageous women.
"Perhaps the calculated media silence is because corrupt governments and corporations don't like to have their corruption documented on film and seen by the public. In my current city, Manchester, New Hampshire, one man is facing 21 years in prison, or 3 7-year counts of felony wiretapping, for recording a Manchester police officer slamming the face of a high school student into a cafeteria table."
American media is silent about US protesters going to prison, but has Pussy Riot all over its pages. This is part of the propaganda system. Pussy Riot is a tool of American propaganda. That is the real story here. And Pussy Riot was and is part of the National Endowment for Democracy's attempted color revolution in Russia. THey are part of an illegal american act of aggression against Russia. I would be in favor of prison sentences for that crime.
Too bad there is no Pussy Riot here in the US. But I doubt if they'd stay out of prison for very long. At least the cops in the video were dressed in a civilzed way. In the US, they'd be in full combat gear, with assault guns and ski masks of their own.
Anyway, now that I am "loggedin", as an amateur student of Russian history, there appears to be a pattern of repressive centralized autocracy periodically being challenged, answering the challenge with more repression, and so forth, until all Hell breaks loose, as in 1917 and 1991, two of the more recent examples.
The autocrats are fearful of sharing or surrendering any of their power. The United States is in the process of becoming the new Soviet Union, with federal mandates on issues like "security" and education. The TSA, NDAA, and No Child Left Behind could have come directly from the Soviet politburo. It is very important to keep practicing our inherent human and Constitutional rights, even in the face of ridicule and intimidation. The alternative is tyranny worse than our political forebears faced in the 1770s.
The US is pissed at Putin because he has enough guts to oppose US imperialism. Putin is all that is stopping a full US invasion of Syria. Putin opposes a US/Israeli war against Iran. Putin also is putting some controls on foreign capital in russia. All of this is very good for Russia but American capitalists don't like it.
Putin's government is not really repressive. Russia has laws and a court system. Pussy riot broke the law. They could have been let off with a minor fine, but some dumb prosecutor pushed it. This has nothing to do with Putin. He's not a judge or a prosecutor. It is the fucked up american media that puts his name in this story. They are an extention of Pussy Riot's protest against Putin.
In 1991, two CIA assets -- Gorbachev and Yeltsin -- played their roles in selling out the USSR to western capitalists. Within about a year foreigners owned most of Russia's economy. Putin is just trying to take it back. That's a good thing. We should all support Putin.
IT is no wonder the CIA (capitalism's invisible army) does not like Putin. But I don't like the CIA. I'd take Putin anyday.
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