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Title: McCain's Pravda opinion piece
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Published: Sep 20, 2013
Author: Senator John McCain
Post Date: 2013-09-20 03:09:03 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 268
Comments: 12

Opinion Senator John McCain: Russians deserve better than Putin

When Pravda.ru editor, Dmitry Sudakov, offered to publish my commentary, he referred to me as "an active anti-Russian politician for many years." I'm sure that isn't the first time Russians have heard me characterized as their antagonist. Since my purpose here is to dispel falsehoods used by Russia's rulers to perpetuate their power and excuse their corruption, let me begin with that untruth. I am not anti-Russian. I am pro-Russian, more pro-Russian than the regime that misrules you today.

I make that claim because I respect your dignity and your right to self-determination. I believe you should live according to the dictates of your conscience, not your government. I believe you deserve the opportunity to improve your lives in an economy that is built to last and benefits the many, not just the powerful few. You should be governed by a rule of law that is clear, consistently and impartially enforced and just. I make that claim because I believe the Russian people, no less than Americans, are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Tweet

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A Russian citizen could not publish a testament like the one I just offered. President Putin and his associates do not believe in these values. They don't respect your dignity or accept your authority over them. They punish dissent and imprison opponents. They rig your elections. They control your media. They harass, threaten, and banish organizations that defend your right to self-governance. To perpetuate their power they foster rampant corruption in your courts and your economy and terrorize and even assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption.

They write laws to codify bigotry against people whose sexual orientation they condemn. They throw the members of a punk rock band in jail for the crime of being provocative and vulgar and for having the audacity to protest President Putin's rule.

Sergei Magnistky wasn't a human rights activist. He was an accountant at a Moscow law firm. He was an ordinary Russian who did an extraordinary thing. He exposed one of the largest state thefts of private assets in Russian history. He cared about the rule of law and believed no one should be above it. For his beliefs and his courage, he was held in Butyrka prison without trial, where he was beaten, became ill and died. After his death, he was given a show trial reminiscent of the Stalin-era and was, of course, found guilty. That wasn't only a crime against Sergei Magnitsky. It was a crime against the Russian people and your right to an honest government - a government worthy of Sergei Magnistky and of you.

President Putin claims his purpose is to restore Russia to greatness at home and among the nations of the world. But by what measure has he restored your greatness? He has given you an economy that is based almost entirely on a few natural resources that will rise and fall with those commodities. Its riches will not last. And, while they do, they will be mostly in the possession of the corrupt and powerful few. Capital is fleeing Russia, which - lacking rule of law and a broad-based economy - is considered too risky for investment and entrepreneurism. He has given you a political system that is sustained by corruption and repression and isn't strong enough to tolerate dissent.

How has he strengthened Russia's international stature? By allying Russia with some of the world's most offensive and threatening tyrannies. By supporting a Syrian regime that is murdering tens of thousands of its own people to remain in power and by blocking the United Nations from even condemning its atrocities. By refusing to consider the massacre of innocents, the plight of millions of refugees, the growing prospect of a conflagration that engulfs other countries in its flames an appropriate subject for the world's attention. He is not enhancing Russia's global reputation. He is destroying it. He has made her a friend to tyrants and an enemy to the oppressed, and untrusted by nations that seek to build a safer, more peaceful and prosperous world.

President Putin doesn't believe in these values because he doesn't believe in you. He doesn't believe that human nature at liberty can rise above its weaknesses and build just, peaceful, prosperous societies. Or, at least, he doesn't believe Russians can. So he rules by using those weaknesses, by corruption, repression and violence. He rules for himself, not you.

I do believe in you. I believe in your capacity for self-government and your desire for justice and opportunity. I believe in the greatness of the Russian people, who suffered enormously and fought bravely against terrible adversity to save your nation. I believe in your right to make a civilization worthy of your dreams and sacrifices. When I criticize your government, it is not because I am anti-Russian. It is because I believe you deserve a government that believes in you and answers to you. And, I long for the day when you have it.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

They don't respect your dignity or accept your authority over them. They punish dissent and imprison opponents. They rig your elections. They control your media. They harass, threaten, and banish organizations that defend your right to self-governance. To perpetuate their power they foster rampant corruption in your courts and your economy and terrorize and even assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption.

That's rich coming from the likes of John McCain.

Sweet irony!

He's describing our US government.

scrapper2  posted on  2013-09-20   3:38:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: scrapper2 (#1) (Edited)

Sweet irony!

I wouldn't exactly call it irony, but the hypocrisy is breathtaking. Everything YellowStain McCain accuses Putin of, the US is guilty of doing. It appears to be a classic case of psychopathic projection. His cold war mentality is also quite detached from reality. McCain is a dangerously deluded individual that belongs in a psych lockdown rather than in the halls of power. How much you wanna bet that he's on SSRIs?

The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. - Dr. Eldon Tyrell

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
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Esso  posted on  2013-09-20   6:09:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Esso (#2)

I make that claim because I respect your dignity and your right to self-determination. I believe you should live according to the dictates of your conscience, not your government. I believe you deserve the opportunity to improve your lives in an economy that is built to last and benefits the many, not just the powerful few. You should be governed by a rule of law that is clear, consistently and impartially enforced and just. I make that claim because I believe the Russian people, no less than Americans, are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Rights??????

What a hypocrite.

We no longer have even the right to life anymore.

Cynicom  posted on  2013-09-20   7:25:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

Does anyone here really think anything constructive comes from the endless bullshit sessions about murderous baby killers like McCain ? Don't we already agree that these scumbags deserve death after being tortured for a few years ?

It's time to stop whoring out to the conveniences provided by these cocksuckers that do not hesitate to kill millions of children (often our own) - we have to make it stop - the politicians aren't going to do it.

We are complicit as long as we continue to participate in the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK GOVT. We should withdraw as far as possible from any relationship with the murdering scum that run D.C., as well as any other entity promoting the same wicked bullshit.

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

Bastiat

noone222  posted on  2013-09-20   7:47:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Cynicom (#3)

We no longer have even the right to life anymore.

Yes we do. We have the right to life and liberty. It's shit-eating baby- killers like McStain that have no right to life.

D.C. is a witches coven, paedophile playground, and home to the most murderous gang of miscreants to have ever existed on the planet. And every single individual that supports these fucking scum are just as guilty as they are and should be profoundly ashamed of theirselves.

Fuck them all.

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

Bastiat

noone222  posted on  2013-09-20   7:51:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: scrapper2 (#1)

lol.....you beat me to it.

" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11

"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne

abraxas  posted on  2013-09-20   9:52:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Esso (#2)

a classic case of psychopathic projection

Astute diagnosis, Dr. Esso. : )

" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11

"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne

abraxas  posted on  2013-09-20   9:54:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

I believe you deserve a government who believes in you and answers to you.

The dumb bastard must not have realised that folks back home would read his bullshit. Who wrote this piece for him? Larry David?

Support bacteria.

(The world needs more culture)

Obnoxicated  posted on  2013-09-20   12:03:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

McCain's rant would have been more accurate if he had published this in the NY Times and replaced every reference to Russia with America, and every reference to Putin with Obama.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2013-09-20   13:48:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Esso (#2)

Everything YellowStain McCain accuses Putin of, the US is guilty of doing. It appears to be a classic case of psychopathic projection.

You noticed that too? Thought it was just me...


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2013-09-20   13:50:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

How nice that Pravda printed something McCain wrote. Maybe Pravda will even get around to printing a Russian translation of it.

Shoonra  posted on  2013-09-20   15:05:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Shoonra (#11)

What!? And upset the Proletariat?

"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha

Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")

Original_Intent  posted on  2013-09-20   15:54:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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