[Revolting cat!]

(Repeat from another thread.)

I’ve been watching the situation by the hour. It seems that the protesters are digging in and not accepting the compromise agreement signed by the leaders with Yanukovych just before midnight and giving the 300 arrested amnesty. Revolution is in the works. They are building barricades, and preparing for serious fights. “The band (Yanukovich’s regime) is using all methods to choke us. Why should we keep down?” asks Andrei Tarasenko, coordinator of a new radical movement Right Sector which refuses to negotiate with the regime. Graffiti on the walls along the main avenue in Kiev: “This is our land! Liberty or death! Long Live the Revolution!”

By the way, get ready for a poster here who is a member of the George Soros Fan Club, in the negative sense, but the obsession is the same as if he worshipped him, who will repeat this one line that Soros is behind the protests, funding them and organizing via his proxy organizations. Don’t believe it, and you’re “utterly stupid”, and of course a globalist.

[cripplecreek]

who will repeat this one line that Soros is behind the protests, funding them and organizing via his proxy organizations. Don’t believe it, and you’re “utterly stupid”

Well if he can come up with evidence, that's what I'll believe. It certainly wouldn't be the first time Soros has played around in that part of the world, nor would it be the first time FReepers flung themselves off a blind cliff only to get burned.

That said, I haven't really paid it any attention. We've got too many problems closer to home.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Sycophantic supporters of the genocidal mass-murderer Vladimir Putin will tell any lie to support the Kremlin’s Neo-Soviet aggression against the freedom and independence of the Ukrainian people. They don’t care who they smear and they will never present any evidence of their false allegations.

[annalex]

preparing for serious fights

Berkut (the militarized police) can go through the protesters easily even without live ammunition, like they did on Grushevskaya St. at least once. It is a complex game where military technology (from catapults to burning tires) and occasional casualty are components of the image on the world scene. It is similar to the Intifadas, and not similar to Libya and Syria where the opposition had machine guns on trucks.

I will be posting an image or two with each post, not necessarily related to the text of the post. Here's one:

Lone Protester.
Note the ice from fire hydrants melting under feet. The hydrants were used to disperse the protesters and to quench fires.