Madonna shows support for jailed Russian punk band

CBS ^ | 08/08/2012 | CBS

[Responsibility2nd]

MOSCOW — Madonna has expressed her support for the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot by donning a black ski mask and scrawling the group's name on her back.

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Madonna voiced support for Pussy Riot at a Tuesday night concert in Moscow, saying she'd "pray for them."

[Responsibility2nd]

This is big news.

I suspect the reason we aren't reading this here at FR is due to the censors having a hang-up over the Russian band's name.

[mardi59]

She finally found something that suits her. She’s been a ***** riot for years!

[DuncanWaring]

From Ann Barnhardt:

I propose that we all stop calling Madonna Ciccone by her first name and instead refer to her from now on, when we have occasion, as "The Dread Strumpet Ciccone", or just "Ciccone".

[dfwgator]

Only gays go to her concerts now anyway.

[Morgana]

This band that Madonna stood up for, what if anything do we know about them? Why were they arrested? What is their “cause”?

[dangus]

Shocking! Shocking, I tell you! Madonna backs sluts who desecrate a church!

[mouse_35]

http://www.austin360.com/music/verdict-in-russian-punk-trial-set-for-aug-2430535.html

Here is a link to one of the news stories. They disrupted a worship service to protest Putin. I can see charges for disorderly conduct but they are being prosecuted for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”. They may be jailed for up to seven years.

[CatherineofAragon]

OMG, she’s, like, just so COOL! She actually wrote their name on her skin like some kind of, like, protest! /s

[Emperor Palpatine]

They hate Czar Vladimir.

And Putin has the ROC in his back pocket.

They believe the Church is actively supporting Czar Vladimir’s suppression of dissent.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Who?

[Emperor Palpatine]

Oh please. The ROC has a centuries-old history of supporting Czarist brutality and pogroms.

Although the Coronation Scene of Mussorgskiy’s “Boris Godunov” is festive.......

[dangus]

So it’s totally cool that they desecrate a cathedral. I see.

[cunning_fish]

Pussy riot is a feminist wing of a neo-bolshevik group “Vojna” aka “War”. Their activity is centered against a church and law-enforcement.

Another their acts are “Dick in the ass” punk performance in a courtroom, “mentopop” performance which was about robbing a supermarket wearing a mix of police uniform and a priest’s dress, burnind down one and turning upside down another police vehicle, a series of sexual assaults on police women in subways etc.

In fact some of their “comrades” were on trial for these things before, that is there this “Dick in the ass” performance from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUaJLNonytg
You can see all these faces.

“Mordovian hour” performance on May, 1 2008 (throwing stray cats into McDonald’s kitchen to feed animals with decadent food and make low-paid workforce celebrate Labor day as they claim it):
http://plucer.livejournal.com/199615.html

Attacks on police cadets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0A8Qf893cs
Note the song in Yiddish in background. It is a Jewish bolshevik song from October revolution, which is roughly about “!@#$ the police”. AFAIK one of performers was finally shot in process.

Mentopop:
http://plucer.livejournal.com/94884.html

A “screw the feds” prank on KGB agent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ory-oJlK3ho&feature=related

Burning up a police truck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCm-s-vTebA

Another police vehicle destroyed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBQBtnkmec

And that is their promo video:
http://rutube.ru/video/6a7f22163d2b7deb93982c7101508723/

I’m not including public orgies, sex with a frozen chicken in store etc.
They need to get jailed forever.

[ctdonath2]

So did Bjork: https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/bjork

[Morgana]

Okay I got it! This rock group is Madonna’s kind of scum.