Posted on 08/30/2010 12:47:26 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Russia prime minister dismisses protests against his regime as 'provocations' as anti-Putin rallies take place in world cities
Vladimir Putin today angrily dismissed protests against his regime as "provocations" and said anyone who took part in unsanctioned street rallies against the Kremlin should expect a "whack on the bonce".
Using characteristic street language, Putin derided Russia's opposition as a group of publicity-seeking malcontents and said they had only themselves to blame if they were on the receiving end of police brutality during anti-government meetings.
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Here come the Cossacks!
Yet there are people here still claiming Putin isn’t a tyrant.
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EGO-TISTICAL POLITICIANS WHO HAPPEN TO BE HOLDING OFFICE...
--And see nothing wrong with using the police powers of the state to violently enforce their political will...
One of the best reasons I know for the preservation of our INALIENABLE 2nd Amendment rights...
Just sayin...
It wouldn’t surprise me. Zero after all thinks that he’s in the cahoots with Putin, which most certainly isn’t true. The other world leaders are in the cahoots, with Zero being the only dupe.
Yes, but these are the same people who still think of Stalin as their nations greatest leader. Think of it as a case of nation wide stockholm syndrome. Your opressor is your friend.
I’m talking about people here, not Russians.
People who should know better.
They say Putin is just doing what is best for Russia...
When a man becomes the law, it is in no ones best interest other than the dictator who is issuing it.
Sorry, #8 was intended for you.
But then we still have people, in the administration no less who use Chairman Mao as a central figure in their life. Academics and the talking heads have a magical power to ignore reality and only see what they wish to see.
See most of the problems in the world......
This article is once againt failing to report the nature of the Russian opposition, mostly bolshevicks, gay rights activists etc.
They are hardcore leftists who has zero public support seeking to break any law during their rallies just to be arrested and to show up on foreign media as a ‘freedom fighters’. Kind a business to get an attention and finance from foreign leftists due to a lack of domestic support and donations.
Their usual tactics is blocking a downtown traffic and setting fights with a police. They do deserve to get arrested. Every sane middle-class Russian does agree with Putin on that.
There is a little pleasure for them to get jammed in traffic with their kids among an agressive equality seeking bolshevicks and a screaming human right activists insulting their troops and demanding freedom for an accused islamic terrorists or nude gays throwing stones at police.
And it is a wrong tactic to get any more votes too.
You may have an opposite opinion on that but leftism is dead in Russia. They had too much of it and won’t get bought for it anymore.
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