The world needs a strong and democratic Russia

Things are no different in other countries. The Americans heartily condemn the state control of big oil in Russia and Venezuela, but see nothing wrong when big oil controls their own government. And Russia isn’t innocent either. Russia claims to be a democracy with a constitution that guarantees equal rights to all its citizens just as homosexuals are savagely beaten and arrested by the police for simply walking down the streets of Moscow or even Saint Petersburg. A resurgent Orthodox Church heartily approves. I guess Russia is still a little new at this “freedom” thing and may have a few lessons still to learn. Free speech isn’t about protecting the speech you love, it’s about protecting the speech you hate the most. And it would be a huge tragedy in my opinion if Russia had to re-learn the great lesson that extent of a Nation’s freedom is often precisely the distance between Church and State.

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I suppose my point is that governments and the people who run them often see things from their own points of view and don’t exactly feel constrained by the same bounds of truth, justice and decency as the rest of us normally do. In fact, they never have. Kings and Queens since Julius Caesar have considered themselves above the law and answerable only to God. And the Churches always kept a healthy store of dry faggots on hand for anyone who questioned this dogma of the divine right of kings. With that idea, Churches around the world helped prop up “regimes” which for centuries kept lavish wealth in the hands of a very few and reduced the rest of humanity back to the status of wild animals, or even worse. Yes, today the regimes have mostly fallen and the perpetrators have paid various prices for their crimes. Russia was particularly harsh on those who violated the ancient Slavic dream of equality. The British and their American children were perhaps most forgiving.

Its just my opinion, but I think that maybe this is why the Americans and British are such good friends with the remnants of the old aristocracy that still survives in the Arab world and why they continue to protect and nurture its recreation around the globe. Now they have new names for it. They call it “capitalism” and “globalization”, and they make them sacred terms by using an educational system and a mass media that’s largely on the take. People who don’t immediately agree and wag their heads up and down like obedient dogs are either traitors, insane or fools. Another difference today is that the Churches don’t provide the muscle anymore.

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