A Russian Patriot Battles Russia’s Greatest Enemy
June 17, 2013 at 9:07 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Disinformation, Enemies of Freedom, Fairness, Judicial Injustice | Leave a commentTags: Alex Navalny, Pussy Riot, Putin, Russia, Russia's enemy, Segei Magnitsky
Alexey Navalny, 26 May 2012, photographed by MItya Aleshkovskiy.
For criticizing Putin, Alexei Navalny is being prosecuted on spurious charges of fraud and embezzlement.
This is a favorite tactic for Putin and his cronies. They use it against anyone who criticizes them, including those who expose theft by officials. It was previously used against Sergei Magnitsky (see below).
Navalny isn’t a perfect human being, but he is honest, and he is trying to benefit his country, not himself.
Not only is Putin and Co. Russia’s greatest enemy, it is very nearly Russia’s only enemy.
Recent actions by the Russian Parliament are evidence that responsibility for the imprisonment, judicial injustice, torture and death of Sergei Magnitsky, and for covering up those criminal acts, reaches much higher than was supposed before. By approving and protecting those responsible, Putin becomes a party to their crimes.
See also here and here and here.
Putin and his cronies do not defend Russia, they rape it.
Putin and his cronies do not love the Russian people, they despise them. They regard the Russian people as unfit to identify abuses, or to propose solutions, or to govern themselves.
Putin is not the protector of Russia, he is the protector of those who pillage Russia
An example is Putin’s protection of those who persecuted Sergei Magnitsky, and then fostered Magnitsky’s death.
Magnitsky’s only ‘crime’ was to expose those who had pillaged Russia. But corrupt officials charged him with some crime he had never committed, and a corrupt judge convicted him of that imaginary crime. As noted above, that has become the standard trick in Russia for persecuting anyone who is inconvenient for those in power.
Putin never asked for an investigation. When a few of the criminals were chastized by the Sergei Magnitsky Act in the US, Putin was not pleased to see the the culpable being punished. Instead, he whined about the US legislation, and pushed a bill that ostensibly punished the US, but whose main effect was to hurt Russian orphans.
His response proved that Putin’s priority was to protect those who pillaged Russia, and that he cared nothing for the true patriots who exposed the pillaging.
That made Putin an accessory to the crime.
That erased all doubt. Russia is ruled by a criminal mafia, and Putin is a member of that mafia.
While Putin remains in power, Russia cannot breathe.
Saint George and the Dragon, painted by Bernat Martorell (1390–1452). AA.VV.,El llibre d’or de l’art català, Edicions Primera Plana, Barcelona, 1997.
Russia does not need to be defended against a dragon. It needs to be defended against a pit of vipers.
Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus), photographed 4 May 2007, 13:03 by Tad Arensmeier from St. Louis, MO, USA.
De-fang Putin and his viper cronies, and Russia will unclench, stretch out, and breathe.
Putin’s Place in History
December 19, 2012 at 5:25 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Judicial Injustice | 2 CommentsTags: corrupt government, corrupt judges, corrupt officials, Magnitsky, Navalny, Pussy Riot, Putin, Russia
Official portrait of Vladimir Putin (2006). This file comes from the website of the President of the Russian Federation and is copyrighted.
History will deem Putin to have sabotaged and delayed Russia’s development into an open, equitable society that can achieve its full potential.
Putin will be called
– Yeltsin’s biggest blunder
– Defender of Kleptocracy
– Defender of dictatorial regimes that oppress and stifle their own people
Let’s consider each of these, in turn.
– Yeltsin’s biggest blunder
A previous post noted that Russia is at present like a Centaur: human above the waist, all brute below. A deranged Centaur, whose brutal part fears and hates its human part, and strives to keep it on a tight leash.
So-called “Old Centaur”: centaur teased by Eros (missing). Grey-black marble, Roman copy after an Hellenistic original. From the Villa Adriana near Tivoli, 1736. Currently in the Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, first hall, great hall. Photographed by Jastrow (2006).
Putin has delayed by more than a decade the Centaur’s transformation into something fully human.
Thin-skinned and scared inside, Putin stifles Russia’s best citizens, its most conscientous and brave citizens, its only true patriots, blocking them from contributing to its improvement.
Not long ago his boot came down on the rock group Pussy Riot.
The rock group performance artists Pussy Riot, photographed 11 January 2012 by Igor Mukhin
Today, with puppy-like eagerness to please his master, a corrupt prosecutor now levels ludicrous charges against Alexei Navalny, a brave blogger.
Alexei Navalny in Moscow, 26 May 2012, photgraphed by MItya Aleshkovskiy.
The ludicrousness of the charges is deliberate. It is part of Putin’s intended message, as was noted by Fred Hiatt in the Washington Post.
– Defender of Kleptocracy
Instead of protecting Russia from the mafia, Putin protected the mafia from Russia.
Instead of protecting courageous Russian patriots, Putin looked away when they were persecuted and killed.
A recent example was Sergei Magnitsky.
The grave of Sergei Magnitsky, 27 June 2012, photographed by Dmitry Rozhkov.
Putin could have stopped the persecution of Magnitsky.
Putin could have ordered an investigation into stealing by government officials from the Russia nation, based on Magnitsky’s discoveries.
Instead he looked away while Magnitsky was falsely charged, arrested, tormented and killed by corrupt generals, judges, police, and doctors.
The names of the thieving generals are known.
The names of the corrupt judges are known.
The names of the police who ordered the beating and the names of the police who conducted the beating are known,
the names of the malpracticing doctors are known, at least to the ‘authorities’.
None of the culprits have been charged, nor punished, nor even admonished.
Russia Putinesca is not a tasty or nutritious dish for most Russians, only for the kleptocracy.
– Defender of al Assad’s murderous regime in Syria,and of Khamenei’s murderous regime in Iran
Quite apart from any questions of national interest, it is not in Putin’s interest to see autocrats be challenged and overthrown.
It is in his interest for the world to contain as few open societies as possible.
Putin will also be remembered as being opinionated, but uninterested in facts and in the world at large. He never grew intellectually, nor morally.
Putin will be remembered as an autocrat, and as a person whose foreign policy was driven by envy.
A Petition on Political Diversity in Russia
August 11, 2012 at 5:08 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Judicial Injustice | Leave a commentTags: freedom, Pussy Riot, Russia
The re-blog Pussy Riot rocks the world! (reblogged from the blog of internet brain child) provided links to three remarkable videos about the incredibly courageous “happening” that was staged by three female members of the Russian punk-rock band Pussy Riot in a Russian Orthodox Cathedral. They prayed for the Virgin Mary “to drive away Vladimir Putin”. Of course, now they are in jail, awaiting trial. You have probably noticed that the judicial system in Russia today is not noted for its impartiality, nor for its freedom from political influence.
Now there is a petition that you can sign to support the three courageous performers. The petition was created by Peaches, Simonne Jones, and John Renaud, who are artists and activists in Berlin, Germany, and it is hosted by Change.org. Please sign it.
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