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Title: Irony alert: U.S. calls on Russia to respect peaceful protests
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Published: Dec 10, 2011
Author: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/09/ir
Post Date: 2011-12-10 13:14:25 by tom007
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Irony alert: U.S. calls on Russia to respect peaceful protests By Agence France-Presse Friday, December 9, 2011 Print 70

russian-riot-police-detain-protester-afp Topics: peaceful protest ♦ Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ♦ victoria nuland

WASHINGTON — The United States called Friday on both Russian authorities and protesters to remain peaceful as opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin prepared major weekend demonstrations against his rule.

Putin has angrily accused the United States of inciting the protests after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised concerns about the fairness of parliamentary elections that Putin’s party won but with a reduced majority.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the United States supported the right to peaceful protest in Russia as it does “anywhere in the world.”

“We expect that those demonstrations will remain peaceful on behalf of all parties, whether they’re the demonstrators or whether they are those keeping social order,” she said.

“So our expectation is that if there are protests, that they will be peaceful and that they will be allowed to proceed peacefully,” Nuland said.

The State Department earlier denied Putin’s allegations that the United States has funded Russians so that they would challenge him, saying that Washington supports groups that work for democratic governance in general.

Russia’s opposition is organizing rallies in at least 15 major cities including Moscow, where the demonstration is expected to draw some 30,000 people under the slogan “For Fair Elections.”

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#1. To: tom007 (#0)

Irony alert: U.S. calls on Russia to respect peaceful protests

Yeah, right. And after they have just pepper sprayed and evicted peaceful protesters on Wall Street and in Seattle.

BTP Holdings  posted on  2011-12-10   13:17:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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That's nice. I wonder if they could call on the LAPD to do the same.

Patrick Meighan's account of his Occupy LA arrest:

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When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor.

It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD officers that I would go peacefully and cooperatively. I stood as instructed, and then I had my arms wrenched behind my back, and an officer hyperextended my wrists into my inner arms. It was super violent, it hurt really really bad, and he was doing it on purpose. When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement. It really, really hurt and my face started bleeding and I was very scared. I begged for mercy and I promised that I was honestly not resisting and would not resist.

My hands were then zipcuffed very tightly behind my back, where they turned blue. I am now suffering nerve damage in my right thumb and palm. . . .

Source: http://www.commondreams.org/vi...

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Vhat Constitution?! You steenking servs tink you got rhights? Ha, ha, ha. Vhat a pleasant mythology. You haf only thoss rhigts vhich fee hallow you. Now chut up und get in der vhan before you are chot! Der Fuhrer hass sspoken.

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