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Russian Whistleblower Cop On YouTube
AHuxley notes a series of YouTube videos that have gone viral in Russia, in which senior police officer Alexei Dymovsky — in full uniform — details police corruption and calls on Vladimir Putin to act. "[Dymovsky says:] 'Maybe you don't know about us, about simple cops, who live and work and love their work. I'm ready to tell you everything. I'm not scared of my own death. I will show you the life of cops in Russia, how it is lived, with all the corruption and all the rest – with ignorance, rudeness, recklessness, with honest officers killed because they have stupid bosses.' His series of three 2-to-7-minute long videos released over the past week have together garnered 1 million hits on YouTube, and have spread across Russia. Dymovsky was promptly fired after the clips spread across the Internet, and a local prosecutor has opened an investigation into libel. An interior ministry source accused him of working for foreign agents and hinted that the format of Dymovsky's complaint was a problem, using a medium that remains largely free of government control." It's best to visit the Global Post link with NoScript and Flashblock enabled. Here's a Google cache link in case it's needed.
So, I only watched the first half of the first video, but this sounded like a lot of bitching about nothing.
My schedule was rough and my wives left me. The pay sucks. My bosses are idiots. I had to work on weekends and nights and go no extra pay for it... I was in the Marine Corps, and it sounds like the same endless bitching that went on there too. It kind of goes with the territory with the types of jobs I would expect... Honestly if you don't like it quit (or don't re enlist in the case of the ones in the military); nobody said the job was full of awesome and would make you rich...
> I'm not scared of my own death.
How appropriate. Bye bye then.
No, I think they completely get the point.
I'm scared the US is going to start looking like that, what with the omnipresent push for more government and "social oversight and responsibility" into our lives and the fact that those with an agenda always conflate "society" with "government."
So he arrests guys smoking pot?
Not to mention, it's not like cops don't get transferred/promoted. Next you'll be sticking up for vice cops.
There are plenty of corrupt journalists, too.
Not a philosophy major, I assume?
"Some A are not X" in no way refutes "Only A are X".
An idiot or soviet shill might be too stupid to understand the OP's point that "Only journalists are a true force opposed to corruption", but no one else here is quite that stupid.
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.