Posted on 10/30/2014 9:40:41 AM PDT by Altenkrug
10/30/2014
ST. PETERSBURG LAWMAKER SAYS OPENLY GAY APPLE CEO TIM COOK SHOULD BE BANNED FROM RUSSIA 'FOR LIFE'
BY KYLER GEOFFROY
Vitaly Milonov, the St. Petersburg lawmaker behind the city's anti-gay "propaganda" ban and the disruptions at last month's Queerfest, is now calling for a lifetime travel ban on Apple CEO Tim Cook, who came out publicly as gay earlier this morning.
Buzzfeed reports:
“What could he bring us? The Ebola virus, AIDS, gonorrhea? They all have unseemly ties over there,” St. Petersburg city council member Vitaly Milonov told the FlashNord website on Thursday. “Ban him for life.” [...]
Milonov, an MP in St. Petersburg whose local “gay propaganda” ban became the basis for the controversial federal law passed last year, is an iPhone and iPad owner but recently declared that an iPhone 6 his “European homophobe friends” gave him was too vulnerable to U.S. spying for Russian officials to use.
Earlier this year, Apple was asked by Russian LGBT organizations to cut ties with Russian phone retailer Euroset following comments made by the company's creative director suggesting that gays deserved to be burned alive in furnaces.
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Well, he knows what’s good for his country, unlike Bill DeBlasio
Glenn and Elton
Oh please. When money is involved ... BIG money ... nothing else matters to the PTB. They will pretend that it does, but it does not.
And post Citizens United you better get used to it. They will sing your song, but not play your game.
You go, Vitaly!
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