Thread: The Pussy Riot Debacle

Russian court imprisons Pussy Riot band members on hooliganism charges - CNN.com

Three members of Russian female punk rock band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison Friday after they were found guilty of hooliganism for performing a song critical of President Vladimir Putin in a church.

Why now? There has to have been multiple punk bands that have been critical of past Russian leaders.

Putin is old school Russian and...

because poutine (i'm misspelling his name on purpose) has been in government since 1999 (premier twice, president three time), and people are starting to act out against him. this is just intimidation imo. also, the church and state have been cozy as of late.

Originally Posted by CanadianPersian

because poutine (i'm misspelling his name on purpose) has been in government since 1999 (premier twice, president three time), and people are starting to act out against him. this is just intimidation imo. also, the church and state have been cozy as of late.

Actually I think his KGB days predate 1999.

Originally Posted by deputyfestus

Actually I think his KGB days predate 1999.

Yeah, I would say so.

Originally Posted by deputyfestus

Actually I think his KGB days predate 1999.

oh yeah, he was in the soviet government as well. i meant like in a position of power, as in through elections.

edit: the prime minister of russia isn't elected.

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

So what are you guys discussing here?

Can't speak for everyone.

I'm discussing hot, feminist, punk-rock dissidents who want to make the orthodox church watch while they bend the Kremlin over an altar and fuck it in the ass. Except the Kremlin don't play that (thanks, Festus) and so it's an old-west showdown between the forces of good, the forces of evil, and the forces of Christ (someone whistle the theme from "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for me) in front of a hundred and forty million Ruskies most of whom lived through the last revolution, a number of whom beat the Nazis the hard way, and a few of whom were alive for the revolution before that.

They're the children of Ivan the Great, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Lenin, Stalin, and the hard-drinking (even for a Russian) mayor of Moscow who stood on top of a tank and told history and the Soviets to suck his cock. They beat the Golden Horde, they beat Napoleon, and they beat Hitler. It took a while, but the cold makes you patient.

They've got a mafia that scares Sicilians, gas reserves that scare the Arabs, a nuclear arsenal that they don't really keep track of, and a thousand year history of oppressing whoever they feel like whenever it's convenient.

Standing up to that are a few punk rock girls. I don't like their odds, but goddamn if they aren't exactly the kind of underdogs I like to root for.

Why, what are you discussing?


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