I honestly don't think you know enough about the pussy riot actions or Russia to talk about it let alone pass such judgements what are you a time wasting troll ? if not do some research
Sent from my iPhone On 01.01.2014, at 17:35, Stephan Neuhaus <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-01-01, 00:00, James A. Donald wrote: >> On 2014-01-01 07:52, Juan Garofalo wrote: >>> What is a sincere practitioner of civil disobedience? >> >> Someone who expects to suffer for his beliefs, and is willing to do >> so is a sincere practitioner of civil disobedience. >> >> [...] >> >> In practice, 99% of civil disobedience is Pussy Riot tearing down >> someone else's crucifix on someone else's property. The message is >> "You have to obey our laws, but we do not have to obey even our own >> laws". > > I know what you want to say (I think), but I believe that you are > incorrectly referring to such people as "Pussy Riot". The three > incarcerated Pussy Riot members have had immensely harsh sentences. They > called the Putin amnesty that set them free a "PR gag" and convinced at > least me that they were serious when they said that they would have > preferred to serve their sentences until the last day. > > Sounds like people "who expect to suffer for their beliefs, and are > willing to do so" to me. > > Fun, > > Stephan > > PS: If I recall (but I haven't checked), the incident in question was > singing an anti-Putin song in a church, not "tearing down someone else's > crucifix on someone else's property", for which they were convicted of > "rowdyism".
