Topic: Russian Protests - page 3. (Read 2836 times)

In Russia, police and people are not compatible. There the police are in the service of the government, and not of the citizens of the country, therefore any action of the population will be met by opposition from the police.

I guess the difference here is that the police here don't really have a sparkling reputation to begin. Now add to that the general skepticism towards public servants and you have a population that either fear or hate the police but don't love them enough. When there's a confrontation between an individual and the police, people would automatically assume the police must have done something wrong or at least overreacted to the situation. Same with road rage incidents between rich and poor. If the video is insufficient to show who was in the wrong, people would assume it was the rich guy.

Don't go overboard. No one will defend a cop, who shoots an unarmed disabled man. That said, I will not support the individual if he is armed and is threatening the policemen. Because the firearm can be used by the normal people as well as by the disabled ones. It is a deadly weapon, even in the hands of a blind person.

The Philippines does not really jail too many people compared to the U.S.

Your incarceration rate is 140 people per 100,000, the U.S. rate is 693 or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

Some sources put the U.S. at 666   http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_population_rate?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All

In the U.S. there are two very distinct groups.

a) The appeasers who defend the police no matter what they do. The police in the U.S. can claim a quadraplegic in a wheelchair threatened them with a sharp object so they had to shoot him, and loads of people will cover the comments sections of newspapers to support the killing.

note, I looked on Google for the police shooting of a man in a wheelchair that occurred near a place I lived several years ago and cannot find it on Google!

The main case you see of police shooting a guy in a wheelchair on Google is an armed black guy in a wheelchair in Delaware. Most U.S. sites paint the shooting as justified, for a more civilized view you have to go to British tabloids http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-wheelchair-shot-dead-police-6510432

Another one here http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2009/11/24/man-in-wheelchair-shot-by-police

And here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/brian-claunch-houston-shot-matthew-marin-police-cleared-disabled-amputee_n_4218889.html discussed in some depth at http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/investigations/item/Bulletproof-Part-1-Unarmed-and-Dangerous-24419.php

Look at this incident in which a person in a wheelchair was charged with assaulting a police officer, charges were dropped because of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvU5uO_cDoo

When the police are dealing with an adult man they keep their distance generally, but when they are dealing with a person in a wheelchair or a child or a woman they become aggressive, and there are lots of Americans who support that kind of cowardly behavior because they don't want to be on the wrong side of a powerful gang.

b) The second big group is people who just don't want to get involved because there is no way to win. If you know something or see something involving police it is risky to go public because police do target potential threats to their image.

In the Philippines if you see a policeman commit a crime and you complain you might get a beating. In the U.S. you could face much more, especially if you are a minority or otherwise vulnerable.

Most protests here where they beat up police have hundred of participants that it's hard to arrest everyone who abused the police. Well, besides despite our president's ever increasing authoritarian leanings the media here is still active in hounding the gov't for any perceived slight that things like this wouldn't go unnoticed.

The anti-establishment sentiment has somewhat dimmed in Russia, thanks to the sanctions imposed by the Western nations. The people are angry with the US and the EU, and they are rallying behind Putin.

You have a different opinion, you get arrested. How typical of fake democracy. In some countries only the people change but the system and corruption remain the same.
The Prime Minister and former President is Putin's puppet. Putin needed a break in his presidency, so he gave power to Medvedev for one term and took it back soon after, giving Medvedev a position in the parliament in exchange.

WTF
A Russian language youtube video with 13,298,580 views and 430,000 vs 30,000 thumbs?
Western media is ignoring something.

These protests wasn't big and can't be compared with protest in 2011 for example. Now only 60k people in 82 cities participated in these protests. Main organizer of protests - Alexey Navalnyj was arrested for 15 days. Few weeks ago he released documentary movie about corruption of Russian Prime Minister D. Medvedev:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qrwlk7_GF9g

I'm not sure that Maidan was sponsored Poroshenko. He cling to the Maidan after it became evident that there was a chance of his victory. This greedy people just took advantage of the victory of the Maidan. If you remember the beginning of the Maidan was sponsored by politicians and the protesters did not want to have anything to do with politicians. Remember in the beginning there was two Maidan.

I have not heard anything about Clinton dead bodies. About Putin-the corpses I hear very often. As for Bulk, I'm sure that he is a puppet of Putin. It is for this reason he is alive and living in very poor conditions. That is why in Russia there is no United opposition.

Putin's most fierce critic (Alexei Anatolievich Navalny) is well alive after decades of political activism. Till now, there hasn't been even an attempted murder against him. I have a feeling that many of Putin's critics are being murdered by the CIA, so that they could blame Putin for their murders. BTW... have you forgot about all those people killed by the Clinton crime family? Ever heard about the Clinton body count?

In any dictatorship there is a risk that primarily affects those who blindly executes orders of the dictator. He's afraid that once he loses power it could collapse a fair trial. Putin always kills all witnesses to their crimes.

You, good sir, get the cookie for the day.


Notice how the GOP has been pushing for legislature that makes protesting illegal (in varying degrees). Corporate America is not digging the protest scene at the moment (the pipeline shit really bigged down the profits a few quarters, instead of a.pipe, they got litigation and bad PR). This is where we will be, eventually, becuase apparently now we idolize Russia.

On a related note, why are so many Russian diplomats connected with the Trump dossier, suddenly dying?

Look it up/I shit you not.

great protests, eventually russians got some guts  

Someone should have called pussy riot.

This is a normal intelligent person, which is not a hurrah for the patriots. He understands the situation adequately. For him, Putin is not an idol, but an aggressive tyrant.

Really, illegal mob in the name of legality make laugh.



What does "Pro ISIS" banner with "corruption"?
Who are this people?

Putin regularly cleans decent opposition. At the moment in Russia there is no strong opposition. Russian do not see a leader who will lead them in the fight. Bulk is the fake leader of the opposition. These rallies Putin bleeds steam from the boiler. People gathered and talked and saw that nothing has changed. They just have no desire to participate in rallies and they get used to despair.

Ohh a cheap insult.
This is evident, that some group of people have only cheap insults to put on the banner.

In this way is clear, why this "protest" goes to epic fail.