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Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police
New submitter perdelucena writes "Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested outside a Moscow court, where the verdict in the trial of the Pussy Riot group members was being announced on Friday, Russian police said." Update: 08/18 01:14 GMT by T : Kasparov has written an account of the arrest.
Your move.
Me thinks if Putin and his thugs aren't a bit more careful, they could start the 2nd coming of democracy in the former Soviet Union.
Police bites you.
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Here's a 2007 /. story on a previous arrest.
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3 reasons: ..." jokes is obvious.
1. He's a chessplayer, which necessarily makes him a giant nerd. Hence news for nerds.
2. This is stuff that matters, especially if you're Russian.
3. The potential for "In Capitalist Russia
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You see... Julian Assange writes for Russia Today (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/arts/television/julian-assange-starts-talk-show-on-russian-tv.html?_r=1) the well-known Putin mouthpiece.
Since Julian Assange is the Messiah, Kasperov was obviously part of an evil US-led conspiracy to kidnap Assange. Therefore, Kasparov should be shot in the name of freedom and we should not only give the Nobel Peace Prize to Assange, Putin, and Correa, but the Nobel Peace Prize should be abolished after they win because nobody else is possibly worthy compared to them!
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
The reporting on this mentioned protesters outside holding signs that translated to "Free Pussy Riot". They didn't comment on whether they meant "Free (Pussy Riot)" or "(Free Pussy) Riot".
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Vladimir Putin, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My sicilian defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Caissa!
Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
His former chess level is less-relevant than the fact that he's a leader in the political movement opposing Putin.
Those who fail to understand communication protocols, are doomed to repeat them over port 80.
People don't care about Kasparov being arrested half as much as the judicial farce that was just inflicted on Pussy Riot.
The reason you should care is because the members of Pussy Riot that were given 2 year prison sentences are political prisoners (per Amnesty International and almost every other human rights organization). And if you don't care about political prisoners, then you suck at life.
Why would anyone care about that? It isn't like being a jew grants you magic powers for evil or something.
Kasparov is famous for being a world chess chamion and a leader opposing putin. Being a jew is only important if you are a fucking stupid bigot.
Just sayin.
In Soviet Russia, Czar Putin purges you. Wait... I did that wrong.
shrug last time I saw pussy riot was when they announced a designer handbag sale.
Smart people are a threat to those who hold power. Especially the subset of smart people who are politically engaged and willing to put themselves at risk to protest and demand change. And among them, the subset who are world famous and therefore have easy access to the press, well, they are just beyond dangerous.
There is a long history of new dictatorial regimes wiping out, killing, or scaring away all of the educated class, thus making the general populace less likely to organize, garner international attention, or outsmart anyone in the regime. This fits the pattern.
Light cup, beer drink, thin so chain, neck turtle fat, man I won't say it again
People care about Pussy Riot mostly because one of them is super hot.
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From the Czars, to the Reds, and now to Putin, you're still serfs, all these centuries later.
Oh I know, you look to "strength" in the Kremlin. Well you got your "strength": crush all dissent. Rendering you an antiseptic den of ass kissing and tyranny and oligarchs. You're greatest weakness is your "strength", fools.
Depressing. Pathetic. All hail imperial 17th century Russia, for all time apparently. Still playing at strong man games. The West moves on to Democracy, China gets rid of its warlords. But not you Russia: still stuck in the past with your lame belief in the big strong man, like a bear! Disgusting.
Unless you Russians actually fucking do something about it. Win your country. The Russian Revolution, take 2: democratic this time.
Don't be a fucking serf!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The last time I saw pussy riot was when I changed cat foods.
Take the Red Pill.
BBC video of the arrest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19300149
Rough transcription: "What are you doing? I'm being detained? What am I charged with? What am I charged with? What am I charged with? What am I charged with? What am I charged with? What am I charged with?"
The radical leftist press, e.g. alternet and the Huffington Post will of course either ignore this or suddenly decide to defend Putin.
But Bush looked into his very soul and the voices in his head told him he's a pretty cool guy!
Mmmm which one?
The WH probably hopes the press will ask Romney for his reaction. Mitt will show his mastery of the subject by referring to the band by name.
In Capitalist Russia..... sorry I got nuthin.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
The radical leftist press, e.g. alternet and the Huffington Post will of course either ignore this or suddenly decide to defend Putin.
Huffington Post has several articles about Pussy Riot on the front page. Here is a sample. FTA: "One more thing: Fuck Putin!"
Because he ran for the post of president in 2008, and has been an anti-Putin activist.
It's nothing to do with a Chess player, it's that it should be clear by now that Putin is just old style KGB and they've lost their democracy again.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. I assure you that when she is out of prison she will do very well since she is going to get a lot of attention due to her looks. Assuming she isn't terribly disfigured by then of course. Poor naive thing.
...King checkmates you!
This is way bigger than you think. Big, like in SPACE. To understand, you should first affiliate yourself with the origins of chess, particularly from the view of former President of the Republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
Well, soon you will begin to see what started this whole affair in the first place. The President of the Republic of Kalmykia has powerful friends, and Putin is not at the top amongst them. These friends have spaceships and don't piddle around, especially with chess. In other words, Gary fucked with the Aliens by criticizing their Kalmykian friend, and Putin, the incredibly patient fellow he is, is finally closing in -- in service of the KGB (King's Gambit Bezopasnosti).
Gentlemen, I assure you, chess is far stranger than Go.
Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
"Democracy does not come from governments. Democracy comes from the people."
It is getting to be hard to tell the difference. Freedom of speech is taking one heck of a beating in the US. The concept of ownership is also attacked on many fronts in the US.
How is it that a couple can be evicted and their home auctioned off when they not only did not default on a mortgage but never even had a mortgage in the first place? The banks and a sloppy judicial system grabbed the wrong home by accident. If that can happen what do you think happens in criminal trials? I suspect that we have tens of thousands or perhaps hundreds of thousands of convicts who are totally innocent and very, very little is being done about it.Obviously that is a form of proof that we also execute innocents as well. Guilt should never be a matter of debate but as absolute a thing as a human can ever grasp in this world.
Those are very brave women.
Every time I go out on the town there is a "pussy riot".
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
It would be refreshing to see the WSJ providing a similar pulpit for any of the many progressive, liberal, and leftist protestors arrested by police in the US.
Unfortunately, that day may never come.
Do you think it's in relation to his treasonous appearance at the 2012 Bilderberg Meeting on US soil?
In Soviet Russia, game plays YOU.
Huh?
Why would anyone care about that? It isn't like being a jew grants you magic powers for evil or something.
Kasparov is famous for being a world chess chamion and a leader opposing putin. Being a jew is only important if you are a fucking stupid bigot.
Just sayin.
It always seems important in the Wikipedia articles. :)
Perhaps a hint of deodorant would keep women from stampeding away.
The last time I saw a pussy riot was when to women were fighting over me =). Encore. Encore!
Life is not for the lazy.
Are you EVEN serious?
The reason you should care is because the members of Pussy Riot that were given 2 year prison sentences are political prisoners
Well, yes, but no. Google "petukhi". Google "Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Google "Sergei Magnitsky".
You should care because they will spend that time in the worst-of-the-worst "black" prisons. They will endure daily rape, by both fellow inmates and staff. They will leave (if they leave) with HIV and/or multi-drug resistant TB. They will most likely not leave... Or last a week, for that matter.
The court didn't need to sentence them to any crazy-long sentence, because the court sentenced them to death and hell. Simple as that.
I assure you that when she is out of prison
Do you mean that as a joke, or just naivete?
If she lives a week... If she makes it two years... She will leave broken, and with any of a number of fatal diseases.
She won't leave.
Fuck Putin. He deserves what the coming revolution will do to him.
The radical leftist press, e.g. alternet and the Huffington Post will of course either ignore this or suddenly decide to defend Putin. Why?
He's not a rocker chick
He's a Jew.
Jews are the children of God, so they are better then us gentiles.
Be seeing you...
dang jewish god made me reply to the wrong post.
Be seeing you...
Why would anyone care about that? It isn't like being a jew grants you magic powers for evil or something.
Kasparov is famous for being a world chess chamion and a leader opposing putin. Being a jew is only important if you are a fucking stupid bigot.
Just sayin.
Jews are the children of God, so ya, they got magic powers for evil or something.
Be seeing you...
People don't care about Kasparov being arrested half as much as the judicial farce that was just inflicted on Pussy Riot.
I don't think you understand just how important chess is in Russia.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Yes I am dead serious. Russia has a lot of problems and its government is very far from being decent and fair to its population, but regardless of all its past evil doings, currently its negative impact over the world is neglectable compared to US.
A little threat by all of the western world would convince KGB agent putin to reverse the evil decisions.
Also in the same city is the new russian grandprix so perhaps all the F1 teams should boycot that too, or at least do a protest 50mph race that would take 12hrs to complete. hahahhaha.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
If you think Putin is that idiot running Syria, think again.
You're not fooling anyone, Howard.
That's what you get for carrying Prada-Handbags!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It'd be nice if we had some Russians here instead of western europeans and americans giving their Very Important opinions about a culture they really know little about. I feel like in the Olden Days of slashdot the userbase was more international in flavor; for whatever reason it's become much more homogenous.
I want to see tons of In Soviet Russia jokes people. Who said Soviet Russia had changed? It is just packaged with new fancy skin. Everything is still the same up there. Let the jokes begin
What one should really wonder about is why, after being arrested, Kasparov's first priority is to write an article for the WSJ. Who's interests is he really trying to represent? It's not that there isn't an honest opposition in Russia, but these sorts of actions do nothing to help his credibility, especially considering how the US is known (especially in former USSR) to fund astro-turfed opposition groups, and the populations are understandably suspicious about this.
It doesn't even matter if Kasparov is getting western money - the mere possibility of such money is enough to make him, and people like him, make their case first and foremost to the west, and only second to the people on who's behalf they claim to speak.
too bad!
it's just another color revolution attempt by the CIA boys and girls....
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.pt/2012/08/russian-punkers-get-2-years-jail-for-us.html
It's not at all important. Hasn't been since USSR days.
Huffington Post is not radical left. Communist Party of the USA is radical left.
Unfortunately, once that important correction is made, you're actually right. Various commie and socialist organizations around the world these days seem to be really enamored with Putin (and others, like Assad) solely on the grounds that they are "standing up to the capitalist West". From there they then proceed to come up with various excuses about why they're not really dictators, and why their human rights abuses aren't.
As the guy who lost our war against the machines. All hail our Supercomputing Overlords.
Regarding 2:
No. Not especially if you are Russian - more like especially if you're a human living in the world of today, where a Russia that reverts to old habits is a dangerous fucking thing. As someone who was actually alive when the soviet union broke up in '91 and have visited some ex-soviet states in the time since, I've seen both sides of the coin. Trust me, this one is better.
Or was. It's getting bad again, and it's getting bad quickly. Putin sucking up to the church, smashing down on any political dissent... If this is allowed to go unchecked it's a matter of when not if russia will start the rearmament of their military forces, if they haven't already, and once more become a volatile player in world politics with their finger on the launch button.
Now I live in Sweden, so I'm close enough that maybe I should be worried for my own sake, but I'm not. We've got Finland between us and the Russians, and nobody fucks with those guys and get away with it. But on a political scale and a global relations scale, this is worrying news indeed. The fact that other countries just wave it off, well... that's no surprise. But you can bet your ass their military advisers have started drawing up plans for the worst case scenario.
So everyone in your prison system gets that fucked up in 2yr and you only going to complain now?
May i ask what got you all so worked up all of a sudden? Or better yet, so complacent before?
You're just not used to seeing 200lb women. In Russia that girl is *maybe* a 7
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
There is a huge divide about the government's treatment of this punk band, Pussy Riots. They are now sentenced to 2 years in prison, which almost certainly means they are not getting out, but even if they do, they'll be broken and sick people after what they are going to be dragged through.
Unfortunately there is a huge chunk of the population that is cheerleading this injustice by the Russian 'courts', in reality by the Russian government. This is a political hack job, this has nothing to do with justice.
Supposedly there is separation of church and state in Russia, but I guess Putin is a shrewd politician, who figures he will play on the worst of the worst sentiments and feelings of the crowd.
Think about the crowds that gather to throw stones at the heads of poor women somewhere in Arab countries, where a woman was raped and then stoned for that 'crime'.
Now, the Pussy Riots weren't raped (yet, they will be now by the prison guards and prisoners), what they did was they offended some people's sensibilities.
It is TRUE, they did offend a lot of people's feelings, all that, but the criminal law that is used to throw people in jail shouldn't have provisions to throw people to jail for offending anybody or even groups of people. Should the law have those provisions?
I am thinking about Canada right now and the 'hate speech' laws, that can be used to throw people to jail for SPEECH.
Now, these girls went into a church and did something silly that they consider to be art, but AFAIC the more important part of what they did was political speech, because they spoke against Putin in the church. They specifically spoke against Putin and his rule.
They are being thrown into jail not based on any law, it's not even because they offended the church, they are thrown into jail for attacking Putin.
As to separation of church and state, these must be separate. If they are not separate, it means the law is not based on any logic, it's not based on reason, it's not based on anything that is rational. It's based on whatever the religions wants, and religion is not a rational, logical system.
ALL religions are irrational and illogical, they all have magic in them, they all require people to suspend the disbelief, to not think about the facts, to dismiss rationality and facts. Religions also have a very nasty tendency to punish the people who are 'heathens' (non-believers), religions have a very nasty tendency to use extreme forms of punishment. Stoning? That's nothing compared to what religions can do. Think - the Spanish Inquisition and worse. Religions are based on fear and punishment and suspension of rationality. Do you want your laws to be based on that?
But I am telling you, the forums, the blogosphere are full of people who are looking for blood, saying that 2 years in prison and rape and murder of these girls is not enough.
Do you think maybe religion and other types of tribalism appeal to the worst of the worst in people? I think so.
You can't handle the truth.
They are idiots who are guilty of deliberately and repeatedly violating Property Rights. How would you like it if someone came into your house uninvited and took a shit in the middle of your living room? I'm an avowed atheist, but Churches have rights too... Two years is probably too harsh (a restitution-based justice system would be a lot more fair for everybody), but putting those degenerates up on a pedestal of Russia's top dissidents is ridiculous and insulting!
As a libertarian I am obviously a harsh critic of Putin and of Russia, but we need to keep our perspective and get our facts straight (which is particularly important in understanding Georgia's aggression in Ossetia). Putin is not the worst thing that could have happened to Russia during this time span - not worst by far!
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People don't care about Kasparov being arrested half as much as the judicial farce that was just inflicted on Pussy Riot.
The reason you should care is because the members of Pussy Riot that were given 2 year prison sentences are political prisoners (per Amnesty International and almost every other human rights organization). And if you don't care about political prisoners, then you suck at life.
I genuinely wish people were this upset when CIA was kidnapping people around the world, shipped them to Guantanamo, tortured them, then released them because they had no evidence.
But no, let's get all upset about some punks getting jail sentence (which will be overturned soon anyway, they were just made an example of) in Riussia.
My master made me this collar. He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may speak. Squirrel!
WWII started because WWI ended with a big FUCK YOU to Germany.
...that the current European financial crisis is because WWII ended with a big FUCK YOU to Germany? The Deutsche Bundesbank is the most influential member of the ESCB. Just saying...
You do realize that all your representatives in order to run for election MUST have enough marketing and exposure to be recognized so even an "Honest" politician HAS to take the money from the special interest groups.
They don't represent you, they represent the lobby that sponsored them.
If your want to cause a scene. All you'd have to do is either call the Westboros group or modify the Hivemind in Anon to generate a proper anti-sentiment. In the meanwhile you have your PAC/Lobby group supporters screaming at the other barricade.
Conspiracy's aside you have to realize that these 3 little retarded felines did NOT think up this idea themselves, they had been foolish enough to receive the proper influence and psychological programming to do what they did.
What is their politics other than in fact "hooliganism"? Not sure how serious a crime that should be, but what kind of sentence would a white power band get for crashing a black church service?
Hey Euros. Make this about how America sucks.
What? They're gonna let them leave? Next thing you'll be telling me they actually went through a judicial process.
They have much to learn from the US.
As to separation of church and state, these must be separate
you seek to place the worship icon of your religion as the head of the state you want to overrun. for you, your religion and your politics are exactly the same; you just try to describe them as something other than religion. you are blinded by your own faith. don't go trying to state that others are worse, your religion drives every single post you have ever made on slashdot, and every political statement you have ever left here as well.
How about
In Putin's Russia...
--- Mercutio was right.
Rotfl, nice one. Best joke I read on here today.
In Putin's Russia you don't get hit - you bite the police.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I've seen no evidence of such opinions.
They were this upset you fuckhead.
Kasparov is one of the smartest people on the planet, and staunch human rights activist. Respect.
I just can't believe that I've read a short paragraph that contained a reference to Kasparov by name along with the phrase "Pussy Riot." These are wonderful times we live in...
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
In the US? They'd probably get charged with trespassing and/or disturbing the peace, and either the charges would be dropped or they'd be released with a fine and time served.
However, the US doesn't have a state church, so it's not really a good parallel.
That's the front page headline of the New York Post (Saturday, August 18, 2012) with a full color photo of these three woman looking up at armed guards, disgusting how theyare being treated and how they are going to be treated in Russian jails . For dancing! ***"History judges societies by how well they treated their women."***
The US is not as bad as Russia yet, but we are sure getting there. GWB helped the US along with the patriot act and all.
Now Obama is just as bad, as worse.
No matter who wins the next election, it will be a disaster for the US.
Maybe some others as well.
4. This entire situation has had so much of an effect on the internet that an unfiltered google image search for "pussy riot" is entirely safe for work.
Now that's definitely a big enough change to be news for nerds.
which is actually a 65 years old free market economy with constitutional rights for what concerns free speech, the crime of blasphemy is punished with up to three years of jail. Those chicks in Russia got two years. And they did not even get beaten by the police in the process. I would imagine if something like this happened in Italy, there would have been real RIOTS from christians and religious leaders asking for death penalty. Reality is, public opinion is angered just because this happened in Russia (which is of course far from being a free country but is neither the source of all evil like the "free press" of western world is depicting it)
if free market is supposed to be able to solve every problem, why do i still need to scratch my balls?
Yeah, and Hitler made the trains run on time.
So much for anything you might have to say.
appropriate captcha: restroom
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