08-17-2012, 05:17 AM
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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
That was predictable. Isn't it?
P.S. Where did you get the "(and calling out Putin)" part?
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Which is why, on the eve of their sentencing on charges of hooliganism, many Russians would feel no sympathy for the three young, skinny girls imprisoned since February, when they sang a "punk prayer" that asked the Virgin Mary to expel President Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin, using a traditional intercession prayer in Orthodoxy, and a church, for their act of political satire.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ed-russia.html
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The three women in the band, who have been in jail for more than five months because of a guerrilla performance denouncing President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral, face a maximum seven years in prison.
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http://www.timesunion.com/entertainm...ot-3795330.php
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MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Whatever verdict a Russian court passes on Friday on the women from punk band Pussy Riot who taunted the Kremlin from a church altar, President Vladimir Putin has signalled he is no more willing than before to brook dissent as he begins a third term.
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http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8JGAN420120816
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Of course, there are wonderful Machiavellian (or should we say, Rasputineque) opportunities here for Putin. By pardoning the ?criminal? rock band, he can show that, underneath that iron exterior, there beats the heart of a bear (a bear mommy, of course, as this is still the Motherland). ?Mother Bear gets quite angry sometimes when her cubs are naughty,? he might announce through the Kremlin?s spokesman. ?But mommy loves you. Remember, anything I do to you is for your own good, darlings.?
Or, he can let the Russian Orthodox Church hold the bag. The church?allegedly the ?offended party? here?has given no quarter, Christian charity be damned. The bearded zealots (and that?s just the women) feel violated by Pussy Riot?s sacrilege and want the full force of the law to rain down upon their harlotty heads in this world, before their thongs are burned off of them in a fiery, eternal afterlife in hell.
This is the ?mother church? of Orthodox Christianity. Nice.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_recko...enis_riot.html Get the picture? |
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