Tweet
Keep 'em locked up...
-
-
Is that "libertarian" Elvis, LOL...Comment
-
Seriously.....how fuckin' annoying is Madonna.......Comment
-
Not for you to decide, this has nothing to do with taste...
Which people do all the time, it doesn't usually result in prison sentences...(2) They knowingly broke the law, then mocked the court.
I doubt anyone in Germany would let this happen...(3) Breaking the same law in Germany would get you three years instead of two and is illegal in America as well.
It wasn't particularly profane, they actually said a prayer, although they used foul language regarding Putin...(4) Their "performance" was nothing but a carefully chosen chickenshit stunt, calculated to be profane and offensive as possible. You can be sure these assholes wouldn't have dared to try that shit in a mosque. They wouldn't have lived to tell the tale.
In short, fuck them.
Part of the appeal of punk is the danger and spontaneity but there is no danger here, only careful calculation. They claim to be a "band" giving a "performance" in order to appeal to the liberal intelligentsia in the worldwide media and create a made to order cause de celebre.
So, what did they do?:
So they weren't arrested until AFTER the video appeared online, yeah, it's all about the hooliganism...On February 21, 2012, five members[1] of the group staged an illegal performance, described as a “punk prayer”, on the soleas of Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. During this performance they walked up the steps leading to the altar, shed their winter clothing, pulled colorful winter hats down over their faces, and jumped around punching and kicking for about thirty seconds.[2][3] Their actions were stopped by church security officials. By evening, they had turned it into a music video called “Punk Prayer: Holy Mother, Chase Putin Away!” where they invoked the Virgin Mary to get rid of Russian President Vladimir Putin, using crude language to attack Putin and Kirill I, the Moscow Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.[4][5][6] On March 3, after a video of the performance appeared online, three of the group members were arrested and charged with hooliganism.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_RiotComment
-
Two of them fled the country.
Pussies.Comment
-
No. It is not illegal for any kind of band in the US to perform songs, videotape the performance, and upload the video to the internet.
Show us where it is illegal to do so. Musicians can perform songs criticial of the US Government all they want to, without any risk of prosecution whatsoever.Comment
-
If this is the biggest thing to protest about in Russia. all is well in Russia.
Moer sexy Putin pictures please! ^_^
"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. - Some come from ahead and some come from behind. - But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. - Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!" ~ Dr. SeusssigpicComment
-
It was just a silly guerrilla theater bit, but if done in a church people get their panties in a wad...Comment
-
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
-
Persian Gulf on the Moscow River
A new report from Boris Nemstov, into the Russian president’s lavish perks of office may help undermine authoritarianism.
Soon after Vladimir Putin more-or-less fully consolidated power in 2007, an astute observer of politics in that country predicted some of the main problems the Russian president would soon confront. Comparing his regime to a fascist state, Rutgers University’s Alexander Motyl said it was inherently unstable because cults of vigorous leaders can’t be sustained as they grow old and decrepit.
At the same time, he wrote, some segments of society — the young, educated and middle class — would begin refusing to submit to the humiliation his unconditional authority imposes.
Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov has been one of their most dogged enablers since he broke with Putin shortly after his rise in 2000. The former deputy prime minister once widely seen as Boris Yeltsin’s chosen successor has co-authored several reports about corruption under the man who eventually beat him out.
His latest, released on Tuesday, is a study of the populist president’s perks of office.
Titled “Life of a Galley Slave,” after the deprecating description Putin gave of his job when he swore to step down in 2008, it details some of the benefits the authors say have ballooned during his tenure. Among them are 20 residences, including a palace near St. Petersburg that cost tens of millions of dollars to restore, 43 airplanes and fleets of luxury cars and yachts.
Using photographs of the president’s various wristwatches, the writers estimate them to be worth almost $700,000, six times his annual salary. His lifestyle, they conclude, can be compared to a “Persian Gulf monarch’s.”
As the yawning gap between the Soviet elite’s relative luxury and the lot of everybody else who used newspaper scraps for toilet paper shows, Russians aren’t unused to their leaders’ lavish lifestyles.
Nemtsov’s criticism shouldn’t faze Putin for other reasons. Although he no longer enjoys approval ratings of more than 80 percent, he spent much of his twelve years in office preparing for the time his popularity would wane. His firm grip on all important levers of authority as well as the vast energy industry makes his current position virtually unassailable.
But Putin is known to be hypersensitive to criticism: for all his power, his authority is brittle in the way of all similar regimes with no real popular mandate. He also surely knows about a recent poll that showed half of Russians are against his running for a fourth term in 2018.
If that number is accurate, and if the sentiment grows, last December’s mass protests may help convince him to try to hand over power while he believes he still can, which would provide the opposition with its next real opportunity.
However expected it may have been, the brusque manner of his return to a third term prompted the first organized stirrings of those ordinary people who are tired of being humiliated. Reports such as Nemtsov’s are important for maintaining their support for the daily pushback against the Kremlin’s authoritarianism.
Last edited by katina; 08-30-2012, 12:51 PM.Comment
Comment