Ukrainian President Zelenskyy
Posted on 05/15/2022 3:10:39 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Kiev has adopted a law making it very easy to ban oppostion political parties purported to be “anti-Ukrainian”. And they will. This is the “democracy” we must sacrifice for. While at least some of the parties lean toward Russia, a lot of these people are Russian-Ukrainians. Does that matter?
So, how do you become anti-Ukrainian? Well, you disagree with President Zalenskyy’s imperative. It affects most of the parties, especially the main opposition party.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy
The new law outlaws denial of the “aggression against Ukraine,” calling it an internal conflict, civil war, and so on. Any positive remarks about those deemed to be perpetrating “aggression” are prohibited as well. That includes referring to the forces of the breakaway Donetsk as Lugansk republics as “insurgents.”
The law simplifies the process to ban a political party. It takes a court ruling in the western city of Lviv as long as martial law continues and can’t be appealed.
In March, Ukraine’s National Security Council suspended eleven political parties deemed to be “pro-Russian.” The list included assorted minor, primarily left-wing parties, as well as Ukraine’s second-largest group ‘Opposition Platform – For Life’, led by Viktor Medvedchuk, a businessman with alleged ties to Russia. Having previously been placed under house arrest, in April of last year the politician ended up in the custody of the country’s security services.
It took place after Ukraine failed to enact the Minsk2 agreement enactment – 7 years after Germany and France brokered the agreement with Ukraine and Russia. It meant recognition of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent republics.
Not a single one of those people would tell you that during a time of existential war that you can't arrest and remove traitors. And this article is such biased horseshit I would recommend questioning all of its characterizations of the people being banned. This is not like Trump "banning Democrats" as one poster put it... though, in point of fact, many Democrats have close ties to the Russian and Chinese regimes and would probably be eligible for some treason trials.
Ukraine is everything that globalists and neocons claim Russia is.
Q: Does their evil, in your mind, rise to the level of justification for invasion (would you say “liberation?”) by Moscow’s troops this year? Or would you condemn the act?
Or to be accurate, Ukraine bans pro-Russian parties.
Ukraine suspends 11 political parties with links to Russia
The Opposition Platform for Life, Ukraine’s biggest opposition party, is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Moscow oligarch with close ties to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Party officials later said the suspension “had no legal basis”.
The Ukrainian authorities last year charged Medvedchuk, a longtime ally of Putin who is believed to be the godfather of Medvedchuk’s daughter, with treason and placed the oligarch under house arrest, a move that angered the Kremlin.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia
When Democrats use the word democracy this is what they mean.
Yeah, that I don’t like. If the intent was to minimize the weakening of his admin, this is a bad choice. It’ll make it worse by encouraging political violence.
What’s a little extra bloodshed in the middle of a war?
Sounds a bit dictatorial, yes?
It’s happened to a lot of them.
Some of them seemed to be fairly conservative rational people before they became name-calling boosters for the New World Order.
There is a well paying government job for you at the Ministry of Truth.
Who, in your mind, gets to determine the “level of justification for invasion” ?
Is the trollfarm running low on material? I have seen the same flavor of attack several times today. “People think you’re stupid” in various forms.
That seems like the bottom of the messaging formula list, or whatever it is you guys use.
Ain’t democracy great?
I’ll assume this is meant sarcastically because otherwise I cry for our educational system.
And what stops Z from banning anyone just by calling them a Russian agent...remember Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Hell, Biden is essentially doing the same thing by declaring MAGA as domestic terrorists...wake up.
Glad to see me and the Mrs called it right on this SOB. He’s lining his pockets with corporations all over the place with all this foreign money. Leftists think he’s hot or something with his tough-guy beard and sweatshirt. Barf.
Another crooked SOB.
Name names, n00b.
Ok, you stupid anti-free speech fascist.
Yeah I’m a troll, who joined 5 years before you... just to troll you now. It’s awesome too.
See - this is why people think you’re dumb. It’s not a conspiracy if it’s true.
Ukrainian parliament passed the law, banning pro-Russian parties.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed the bill on May 3, banning pro-Russian political parties that engage in anti-Ukrainian activities.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-law-bans-pro-russia-parties-zelenskiy-signs/31849737.html
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