Pussy Riot beaten in Sochi Winter Olympic games

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Russian protest group Pussy Riot have been beaten with whips by Cossacks who are helping patrol Sochi during the Winter Olympics.

Footage shows Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who served prison sentences over a protest in a church against President Vladimir Putin, being attacked as five band members tried to perform a song.

Police questioned witnesses, however no one was arrested.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26263141

[hobbit709]

1. The Cossacks still serve the same role as under the Tsars.

[DURHAM D]

2. My thought exactly.

Later they will say they were tricked into being the enforcers.

[Zorra]

3. More RW monsters just doing what RWers do. nt

[LiberalEsto]

4. Barbarians, total fucking barbarians

I am appalled.

[Capt. Obvious]

5. I'm surprised the DUers that hate on Pussy Riot haven't found this thread yet

[dipsydoodle]

6. I'm less than impressed by them

but they didn't deserve that.

[pampango]

7. They say there's a thin line between bravery and stupidity. For these women to still be in Sochi

planning protests, knowing whom they are up against and the tactics that will be used against them, they have to be one or the other. I strongly suspect they are the former.

[jakeXT]

8. Everybody knows that a civilized society uses tasers or pepper spray

Anyway, that's what you get with unqualified personnel

[SoapBox]

9. Next addition of tools to the American Cossack arsenals...

whips.

[jakeXT]

10. I doubt it will heal the deaf

Cop's Tasering Doesn't Help Deaf Man Hear
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/02/19/65448.htm

[progressoid]

11. Don't forget clubs and bean bag guns.

[Igel]

12. And in response there's going to be dismay.

They call Putin and his goons thugs and fascists, say how ruthless and totalitarian they are.

Then they're surprised not that Putin et al. aren't as ruthless and fascist as they're billed to be--if Putin et al. fit the bill they've been given, PR's membership would be mostly gone by now--but by how pettily ruthless they actually are.

Somehow PR and expectations are far out of line with actual beliefs.

[Ash_F]

13. Expose them for what they are!

[Ash_F]

14. Why are people defending the right wing authoritarian take-over of another country...

...on a Democratic site?


Conversely, I see that some of the posters who usually defend right wing authoritarianism in America, also like to point to Russia as the anti-America. You would think they would be in approval of this behavior.

This is a strange site.