Free Pussy Riot!

For those unaware of who or what "Pussy Riot" is, it is the name of all female Russian punk group whose three members entered the Cathedral of Christ The Saviour (Russian Orthodox) in Moscow back in March, engaged in a "Punk Prayer" calling on God to overthrow Vladimir Putin's government and after being arrested for "hooliganism" face up to seven years in prison (although neither their trial date or their sentence has been announced).

Although "desecrating a place of worship" by using it as platform for political protest is a pretty serious charge, given that the recent Russian presidential elections that brought Putin back to the Kremlin are arguably rigged, many (including an increasing number of Russians themselves) feel that the punishment( be it jail time or being kept in prison indefinitely) is far too severe and that anyway sections of the Russian Orthodox Church leadership are WAY too close to Putin's United Russia party( this is a venerable tradition - in "The Gulag Archipelago" the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn notes that some sections of the Orthodox hierarchy in Soviet times had "one ear turned towards heaven and the other towards the Lubyanka- headquarters of the secret political police founded by Lenin and first known as the "Cheka"- it's no coincidence to my mind that Putin, a former KGB officer is widely known as a "Chekist"( he even reportedly uses the phrase to describe himself).

Free Pussy Riot!

Anybody else think as I do?

Terry

I think this just a reason to say Pussy on Comicvine.

Super punx

I really didn't know you can be charged for 7 years in prison for desecrating anything. And the term desecrating, shouldn't it be more associated with using ropes to pull down Apollo's statue? This makes it sounds like they're trapped in the time zone of somewhere in the mid-early 1600.

It is likely they were bothering people that were going into the church entrance, and that's wrong. I'm with the defending the image of the church, its relics, its artistic value. If a group of anti-social folks do something like this, they absolutely should be punished, which the punishment should be paying a fine, and cool-off for a few days behind bars.

@Vance Astro: PUSSY.....cat hehe

Seems downright theocratic to me.

I win because Russian.
BB

@Vance Astro said:

I think this just a reason to say Pussy on Comicvine.

and some people disagree that the off-topic section has gotten out of hand

Seems Legit :P

And the topic got me thinking about something else entirely.

I was to going to say in before the lock but...

The title lead me here...

@Vance Astro said:

I think this just a reason to say Pussy on Comicvine.

nods

PUSSY FOR THE WIN!!!!

What a misleading thread title.

I am disappoint.

@Vance Astro said:

I think this just a reason to say Pussy on Comicvine.

I'm not amused.

Not what I was expecting... damn it. : (

Seven years! Holy hell thats insane.

@Vance Astro said:

I think this just a reason to say Pussy on Comicvine.

I didn't get what I came here for

@Billy Batson said:

I win because Russian.
BB

Did you miss a word in that sentence?

@slacker the hacker said:

@Billy Batson said:

I win because Russian.
BB

Did you miss a word in that sentence?

On purpose.
BB

the title is amusing 

It's about time someone started a riot about the cost of...... Oh never mind.

I love kittens.

We couldn't choose a better title?