FREE SPEECH: Tough Nugget For KREMLIN To Absorb

  For 20th Century Russian/Soviet History fans, the recent revival of Show Trials made famous by Joseph Stalin, is too much nostalgia for the well crafted prosecution. Persecution. Pictured from left are three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, and Maria Alyokhina, 24, at their hearing on Friday in Moscow where they’re currently on trial for theatrics of their own. The New York Times story titled Punk Band Feels Wrath of a Sterner Kremlin, has reporters ELLEN BARRY and ANDREW ROTH describing how when four young women in balaclavas performed a crude anti-Putin song on the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in February, it seemed like just one more episode in a season of audacious, absurdist and occasionally offensive protest. Instead, this case is becoming a bellwether event in the Russian capital, signaling an end to the Kremlin’s chilly tolerance of the winter’s large demonstrations. The three women arrested after their February performance have been held in custody for more than four months, that was extended on Friday by six, through next January and they could be sent to prison for seven years.

  The Times and Reuters compared their preliminary hearings to the trial of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky which took place in the same building. While that case tested Russians’ feelings toward a billionaire businessman, this one targets slender young women with hooded sweatshirts and Twitter accounts who are avatars of the protest movement itself.

  Stanislav O. Samutsevich, 73, whose daughter is one of the defendants, said he was appalled when he heard of the church performance. But the government’s response is so disproportionate, he changed his mind. His voice shaking, while waiting outside the courtroom, Mr. Samutsevich said, “They led the girls into the courtroom in handcuffs. These small girls … half the size of the officers. There is something especially disturbing about it for me. It seems absurd.”

  The criminal prosecution rests on the performance’s inciting religious hatred. An argument supported by Orthodox activists who say the women are Satanists. There are ten witnesses, considered victims in the court proceeding, who’ve said they suffered “moral damage.” A cathedral security guard, “had trouble sleeping after the crime in the cathedral,” said his lawyer, Mikhail Kuznetsov who was interviewed by the newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti. Mr. Kuznetsov said, the band “is only a tiny visible tip of the iceberg of extremists who are trying to destroy the thousand-year-old basis of the Russian Orthodox Church by provoking a schism and using lies to lead the flock not to God but to Satan.” The newspaper further quoted Mr. Kuznetsov as saying, “Behind this stand the real enemies of both our state and Orthodoxy.” The performance at the cathedral “could soon grow into events comparable to the explosion of the twin towers in America.”

  So are we to believe the exaggerated distrust following America’s tragedy emanates from Stalin’s police state protectionism too? Or that basically people can believe whatever we want, whether the PR of governments acceptably promotes a peaceful, compassionate, cooperative humanity, or not? Because in court Friday, lawyers for the victims argued the February 21st performance unleashed a wave of extremism that culminated in a terrorist attack on two Muslim leaders in Tatarstan on Thursday. Though it’s doubtful an omnipotent God/Allah needs help from any of us at all. But go team nonetheless.

  The Times said the government picked a ripe opportunity to crack down since many Russians found the cathedral performance offensive. It’s taken months to provoke support for the women, even in opposition-minded Moscow. But the balance seemed to shift last month, when a roster of famous artists and musicians, including some vocal supporters of Mr. Putin, signed a petition contending the case “compromises the Russian judicial system and undermines trust in the authorities.” Though a poll released Friday by the independent Levada Center found a substantial proportion of 37 percent of Muscovites viewed the prosecution positively and 50 percent negatively. Meaning a jury would rule what on the government’s behalf?

  “When it began to turn into this fantastic biblical story, social attitudes toward the girls changed radically,” said Marat Guelman, a former political consultant and gallery owner whose projects have been denounced by religious activists. “Most of the population now are not so much talking about what Pussy Riot did as much as their fear that these people want to introduce some kind of Orthodox Taliban to Russia, that they will take power,” Mr. Guelman said. “So now I think the authorities are making a big mistake, taking revenge in this way. Society will not support this.”

  Lev Rubinstein, a poet, said, “We are seeing an attempt to return the country not to the Soviet period, but to the 17th century.” So apparently still, especially now, it’s not sufficiently understood how that was also Stalin’s authoritarian direction, too.

  Andrei Damer, an Orthodox missionary, said the performance had crossed the line that separated political speech from blasphemy. “One can criticize the authorities, but one cannot scold the authorities like these girls did. From God’s point of view, where they are now is just.” Right. Free speech be damned is what Allah/God can be credited with through the mouths of man. Uh huh.

  Friday’s hearing was closed to the public and defense lawyers said court officials brought a Rottweiler and scolded them for posting updates on Twitter. The defense filed a motion requesting Patriarch Kirill I and President Vladimir V. Putin testify in court. Mark Feigin, one of the lawyers, said, “As Mr. Putin in a decisive manner influences the decision of this court, it would be proper from the legal standpoint to interrogate him.” Though it’s hard to see how antagonizing the court benefits the women who’ll ultimately pay the price for men deciding their fates.

  Pyotr Verzilov, Ms. Tolokonnikova’s husband, said his wife had long understood public protests carried serious risks in Russia. Both were active in Voina, a radical art collective that gained widespread popularity recently with a series of politically tinged actions, such as a punk-rock performance in a Moscow courtroom, or a 210-foot penis painted, guerrilla-style, on a St. Petersburg drawbridge that rose up pointing at the offices of the state security service, F.S.B. But those penalties turned out mild since the penis project actually won a contemporary art prize sponsored by the Ministry of Culture.

  Neither Mr. Verzilov nor his wife thought the authorities would react so harshly this time. He took the couple’s 4-year-old daughter to a hearing this month when it was rumored the three women might be released. On Friday he went without their daughter. “She understands what is happening,” he said. “She tells everyone that Putin put Mother in a cage and now we have to fight so that they’ll let her out.” Please Vladimir?

  Today Reuters’ headlined Putin will not testify. Printing the court rejected a request to call President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to testify in the trial of the three women held in jail on hooliganism charges since storming the altar of Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral in February to stage a “punk prayer” to the Virgin Mary to “Throw Putin Out!”

  The court ruled at Monday’s preliminary hearing, the trial will start in a week, on July 30, and will be broadcast on the court’s website. But contrary to that possibility for openness, defense lawyer Mark Feigin said the court had rejected a list of 34 people he wanted to call as witnesses, including Putin and Kirill. The court gave no reason but said the defense would be able to make further applications to call witnesses during the trial, Feigin told Reuters, adding, “So for now only the prosecution side’s witnesses will take part.” While predictably, the case has drawn criticism from human rights groups and opposition activists and U.S. rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ frontman Anthony Kiedis performed in a “Pussy Riot” T-shirt at concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow last week. If only free speech were enough, then maybe the Kremlin’s exercise of that right could also lead all of us past the past’s tragic future we’re still humanly, godforsakenly experiencing NOW.

7/23/2012

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FREE SPEECH: Tough Nugget For KREMLIN To Absorb

7/23/2012 concluded: If only free speech were enough, then maybe the Kremlin’s exercise of that right could also lead all of us past the past’s tragic future we’re still humanly, godforsakenly experiencing NOW.

March 27 - May 1, 2018

Logical Threads

  April 17th. Politics' circus-tral aspects include insight, such as Sean Hannity hardly needing the publicity. What America's Public Forum doesn't seem to lack is a script.

  April 19th. "Pompeo and Kim Jong-un got along" news readers announced, ... 

History's Not Changed At All? 
Looking Forward To Tyrants Getting Along?

  Yes, variables are happening, from which, hope's derivable. Except the idea's taking hold that these are the people capably doing this, when their just reinforcing each others' position they're the power, right or wrong. 

April 16

  I either, don’t believe, or don’t particularly care, whether Russians have incriminating evidence on the president. Beyond individuals, ruthlessness's larger picture is the more perplexing question. The root of our disjointedly not being a, completely, whole ethical humanity. Beyond which laws, that only reach so far in their defense of morality, are exploited. The ethical lapse embraced, and forged, by countless self-serving, self-satisfied, generations. That peccadillo greed we can see, but are far from officially cutting open on an operating table. 

  And so it goes. Crap. 

Fanfare For The Common Person

  I love the Aaron Copland tune. Especially as done by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. The calm steady beat rolling up to anthemic chords. How political influence also cascades in waves across, even the most, serious agendas and public opinions. Where discord and blind obedience are worked to feverous pitches, pausing to unleash again and producing The News', general overall, message of overloaded numbness. The problem, as such, being, that the perpetually dilemma riddled world's photogenic tragedies are victimized by the conflicts of power so far removed from individuals' experiences, life's commonly not fair and arbitrarily poised against any us. Justice's blindness. 

  Notice now, that when commending the noble knights of war who're defending us, the crescendo hits such pitches, it's as if General Jack D. Ripper himself were saving our "vital bodily fluids." No? Well maybe. Still, eerily close.

  ...

  So the CBS Radio Bloomberg Business spokesperson repeated their pitch that the president's negotiating style is hard, soft, hard. Yep, news business. The mantra already cascades the land. What politician doesn't crowd, and devour, the plate? Free Speech seems a tough nut to crack, even outside the Kremlin. 

  Hello. 

The Evening News 1990

by Arthur Hailey

  Page 523 - An industrialist describing his media company's relationship with ownership. 

  Elliot retreated to his desk and sat down behind it. He waved Margot to a chair as he said, "The danger of thinking writers or reporters are something special. They aren't, although they sometimes believe they are and get exaggerated ideas about their own importance. The fact is, there's never a shortage of writers. Cut one down, two more spring up like weeds." 

Explaining President Trump's En Vogue 

  Well, isn't this an era of provocative headlines? Besides FREE SPEECH: Tough Nugget For KREMLIN To Absorb, Explaining President Trump's En Vogue sounds like a troublemaker. While both hint of the preference for thinking about things a little more. Then maybe corruption needn't be so ingrained, that the law's an incapable refuge for perpetrators and victims alike. Maybe it's best not to forget more reminders from the local CBS Radio National Business News moderator explaining the president's negotiating style. Hard, soften, then come back hard again. Like baking cookies with a cookie cutter? Not when there's so much to world leaders' agreements that don't even make it to small print. It's an Italian film, Dante's Circus. The trampoline excitement on instant repeat. 

  Speculating, the limits and constraints on free speech are universal. So prohibitively expensive, opinions are silenced or owned, no matter the purported ideology. A crisis long endured, that the freedom of the internet was supposed to break but instead reinforced. To a degree? Degrees. Nothing about anything's set in stone, except power ruling triumphantly. As long as ruthless enough to win, is this planet's operating premise. We are, what's colloquially called, up s___'s creek.

  Will history have lax judgement concerning the legacy of the current head of the EPA for dissolving pollution standards rather than pollution? One person, with powerful allies? Pooh. The ball was dropped on transitioning long ago. Where's the mobile throne industry on transitioning all automobiles to electric? And electric engines that self-charge? Scott Pruitt? Unimaginative pawn. 

  ... Controlling what people think is what happens when forced to have an opinion.  Don't Be Anyone's Sycophant. Patriotism's more than being that. And may Stalin rest as distressed as any of us. Amen. 

  Publications noted: Nearly two decades before the deadly fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower, President Trump was among the most prominent New York developers lobbying against legislation that would have required sprinklers in all residential buildings.

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Brighter Days Ahead For North Korea?

  Today when it’s doubtful any news could sound good enough, Reuters and the Christian Science Monitor report North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is gearing up impoverished North Korea to experiment with agricultural and economic reform after the young leader and his powerful uncle purged the country’s top general for opposing change.

  So is the façade at last being torn away?

  A special bureau has been created to take control of the decaying economy from one of the world’s largest militaries which was given pride of place in running the country under Kim’s father. The downfall of Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho and his allies gives the new leader Kim and his uncle Jang Song-thaek, who married into the Kim family dynasty and is widely seen as the real power behind the throne, some room to try to save the battered economy and prevent the secretive regime’s collapse, Reuters said. Although they used the word “mandate” that usually applies to an election, so their phrasing is reworded here to mean that maybe this event allows the two leaders some space.

  Changes could herald the most significant reforms by the North in decades. Previous attempts at a more market driven economy have floundered. Most recently, a drastic currency revaluation, in late 2009, which triggered outrage, is widely believed to have resulted in the execution of its chief proponent.

  Reuters’ source said, “Ri Yong-ho was the most ardent supporter of Kim Jong-il’s ‘military first’ policy.” The biggest problem was he opposed the government taking over control of the economy from the military. North Korea’s state news agency KCNA cited illness for the surprise decision to relieve Ri of all his posts, including the powerful vice chairman role in the ruling party’s Central Military Commission, though he had appeared in good health in recent video footage. Ri was very close to Kim Jong-il and had been a leading figure in the military. Ri’s father fought against the Japanese alongside Kim Jong-un’s grandfather, Kim Jong-il’s revered father, Kim Il-sung who founded North Korea and is still honored as the country’s eternal president. North Korea has yet to name Ri’s replacement as head of the army, the source said.

  Reuters’ source sees the revelation as an indication of a power struggle in the secretive state in which Kim Jong-un and Jang look to further consolidate political and military power. Sadly life’s still unfortunate fact is ruthlessness requires a ruthless reaction. The North Korean Embassy in Beijing, reached by telephone, declined to comment.

  Some North Korea experts said this confirmed their belief the new leadership would try to make some changes to the stultifying controls over the economy. Korea University professor Yoo Ho-yeol, speaking from Seoul, said, “This should not come as a surprise. Kim Jong-un appears to have done considerable study on this, taken a lot of lessons, and is probably trying to mold it in a way that suits their situation and in a way that blends with the existing policy. Ri’s departure has a lot to do with this process.” He predicted Jang would increase pressing ahead with joint-venture projects with China, the only major ally to which the North can turn for economic help. Really? Then that indicates an expected shell game, as per usual.

  Zhang Lianggui, a North Korea expert at China’s Central Party School, was also skeptical. “You can see this from the repeated criticisms of reform and opening up that appear in the Rodong Sinmun (North Korean party newspaper). They openly criticize any moves in this direction. North Korea is quite indignant when it comes to this point.”

  But North Korea’s cabinet has created a “political bureau” designed to wrest power from the 1.2 million-strong military in order to run the economy, Reuters’ source said. “In the past, the cabinet was empty with no say in the economy. The military controlled the economy, but that will now change,” the source said. But with one step forward there’s due to be a step or two back?

  Though Kim Jong-un has set up an “economic reform group” in the ruling Workers’ Party to look at agricultural and economic reforms, the source said, adding North Korea will learn from its giant neighbor and solitary benefactor, China. Uh huh. Beijing leaders are thought to have been pressing Pyongyang to do more to reform the economy, worried a collapse would send refugees streaming across its border and cause the loss of a strategic buffer to South Korea and the large contingent of U.S. troops which help protect it. Shell game consisting of just people unless they miraculously find oil?

  And in sharp contrast to the austere, reclusive image of his father, state media have shown Kim Jong-un visiting fun fairs, speaking in public and applauding at a rock concert. But though women appear to have been given more freedoms, including wearing short skirts, 200,000 people are in prison camps in the impoverished and isolated country. So as far as that goes America’s own lack of conscience should cause them no stress. But then prisoners in the United States aren’t political? But hopefully the source dismissed speculation of any political fallout from the purge, saying: “Kim Jong-un and Jang Song-thaek are in control of the military.”

  Jang has long been seen as a proponent of reform of an economy which through mismanagement has entirely missed out on the fruits of dramatic growth of neighbors like China and South Korea. His push for reform was widely seen as having triggered a period of exile but he was later rehabilitated and given the primary role of supporting Kim Jong-il’s son when he was being groomed to eventually take over the leadership. An excellent story to read the details of, if and when the dust settles.

  It was unclear how many of Ri’s men have been sacked, but the source said they have not been jailed. Reuters said that some 20 top officials had been purged since Kim Jong-un began his ascent to power. If this continues peacefully that could be a positive sign, yet as with Cuba’s problemed transition, how will the opening for the common (wo)man occur?

  July 8, 2012, Bloomberg News reported North Korean Economy Rebounds on Farm Output, South Says, believing North Korea’s economy rebounded last year on a recovery in agriculture, bolstering Kim Jong-un after he succeeded his father to lead the nation where a past famine killed an estimated 3 million people. Gross Domestic Product in the communist nation increased 0.8 percent in 2011 after a 0.5 percent decline in 2010, according to an estimate published by the Bank of Korea in Seoul. “The manufacturing sector declined, but the agricultural industry enjoyed better weather and more use of fertilizer,” according to the Bank of Korea’s e-mail statement. North Korea is projected to keep growing under the new leader as its economic ties with China and Russia develop.

  “Mineral exports to China and dollars brought in by North Korean workers sent to China and Russia would have driven the country’s GDP growth,” said Koh Yu Hwan, a professor of North Korean studies at Dongguk University in Seoul. “North Korea is expected to be economically stronger under Kim Jong-un as it continues to increase transactions with its allies.” And Kim Jong-un has waged a nationwide campaign to “bring about a turn in agriculture” and increase crop yields, according to a June 7 report carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. North Korea’s agriculture and fisheries sector expanded 5.3 percent in 2011 while manufacturing fell 3 percent, according to the BOK report. But after adjusting for inflation, North Korea’s economy remained smaller at the end of 2011 than it had been in 2008, according to the Bank of Korea. North Korea doesn’t release official economic data.

  Some 16 million of North Korea’s 24 million people suffer from chronic food insecurity, high malnutrition rates and deep-rooted economic problems, Jerome Sauvage, United Nations resident coordinator in Pyongyang, said in a June 12 statement. The cereal deficit for last year was estimated at 739,000 metric tons, according to Sauvage. Maybe leader Kim’s theorized wife, that’s still a secret or at least not public, should plant a vegetable garden as Michelle Obama has and give the major powers something to flex competitively towards each other besides muscle? Come on Mr. and Mrs. Kim?

7/20/2012

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Brighter Days Ahead For North Korea?

7/20/2012 concluded: Some 16 million of North Korea’s 24 million people suffer from chronic food insecurity, high malnutrition rates and deep-rooted economic problems, Jerome Sauvage, United Nations resident coordinator in Pyongyang, said in a June 12 statement. The cereal deficit for last year was estimated at 739,000 metric tons, according to Sauvage. Maybe leader Kim’s theorized wife, that’s still a secret or at least not public, should plant a vegetable garden as Michelle Obama has and give the major powers something to flex competitively towards each other besides muscle? Come on Mr. and Mrs. Kim?

March 5 - April 2, 2018

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

  Life the real estate deal, where squeezing in enough satisfying leverage is every negotiation's focus. Even negotiating a sidewalk, requires every step's self-presevatory accuracy. So, in preparation, brace for descriptive adjectives ad infinitum. As an extremely adjective-strewn political season's in full swing. 
  John Bolton, being named the new National Security advisor, doesn't require derogatory sentiments. Just the reminder, the attitudes that drew the United States into the Vietnam War on a self-righteous level, is the same narrow perspective leading the country now. "The horror. The horror." Jingo presidents.

Explaining President Trump's En Vogue

  Hearing the CBS Radio National Business News moderator, explain the president's negotiating style as hard, then softening, then coming back hard again - extrapolatingly means it's exciting caught up in the trampoline.

  The original essay concerned advancing North Korea's economic culture. Long-laid plans, well beyond, mere, new, starting points, as we're so hopefully entertaining now. It's all about big guns and keeping destructive toys in their war chests? Theat should be the easy part. ... Power's for chumps?
  Except it's time for sharing credit. President Kim and Trump, are you two psyched for the production? Looking past what all this means to either of you? As much as can be expected? 

  Imagine the neutral site? Of course deference to China's position and influence is obvious. In fact natural. Neutral sites don't exist. Especially, since, everyone, however conceivably insignificant, has an interest? Shareholders all. ALL killing is irresponsibly wrong.
  Tuesday, March 27, China announced Kim Jong-un, in fact, spent two days in Beijing. His first trip abroad since becoming king (short for Chairman of Everything). Protocol's all? If only.

  Summit site speculation, March 10th. 

  The, utter vast, protocol of it all, that humanity perseveres despite? Kings never really leave their castles is why the site chosen is so significant. (Invitation to President Trump announced March 8). Beijing being the first site choice. Site Two, the DMZ, where the two halves contend with being whole. What can they offer Mr. Kim? Vice-Presidency for life?
  Imagine the suspense soaked for all its worth. But for all the bravado, backs are still against the wall. And while suspense has a nap, Chairman Kim's first business trip stirred the sleep. 

  All there is, is hope. Still, there's not the sense global antagonisms are winding down. Every hostility being brought back from the brink. And here we are. Wondering what's going on exactly? And whether the leverage to meet with a president's within everyone's equal grasp, and enough to be left alone. 

  When everything means so much -

Whew, Stuff Hits The Fan

  Transition. Transition's the word. Change is inevitable. But transition is the thoughtful process by which hopefully good results are ascertained. 
   Hoping for transition. 

  Needless to say, if, theoretically, advanced nations can't absorb all the mechanisms a completely FULL economy requires. Then the baby steps, needing facing, are mountains.    
  So North Korea's announced willingness to talk was quite the big headline. About what, doesn't matter. Pomp and circumstance may tryingly give way to practical things. So? To practical things being underway. 

  Shouldn't Even Be Such a Thing as Acceptable Levels of Pollution People

  But people like having their heads wrapped around economic convenience. Just like with smoking outside. If the idea of civility were really understood, there's been enough time for our polluting to have already been solved by now. But oil-centricity's existed generations and people didn't already make a difference. The culture created the president's and American indifference. What's polished, looks real nice. But the corroded roots are Scapegoat Paradise.   

  Mm. March 6th's headlines also contained The U.S. Office of Special Council - (OSC) report, citing Kellyanne Conway for violating federal ethics rules for political participation while in a federal government position. People are obliviously arrogant all the time. Sigh. Theoretically the public sphere was always programmed to be a circus? Except where's the happy ending? Because erasing distasteful portions of history isn't it. 
  Eh? Notice a gone the next day headline. Where'd the story go? Follow soaps? 

  The New York Times obituary for Ida B. Wells, in the OVERLOOKED series of 15 remarkable women who'd not received Times' obituaries, is so impactful. Her life's story certainly deserved the timely one. And wouldn't inclusion, also, have been quite something for discerning that age's attitude. Whereas silence spoke volumes, the current Times redress is brilliant. Cataloguing her life's progression that took her where her reputation should be. And emphasized by the paragraph near the end, of matter-of-fact information, that she too had to run when mobs burned out her entire Memphis infrastructure just for what she wrote. 

"had to save you white people" 

pg. 155 - '... so we had to fix you bigots."
The Hammer and Cycle Messenger Service 

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  “We were not really thinking the same,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House. Explaining his decision to replace Mr. Tillerson.

  Yes. I believe President Trump said that, and that the firing implies politically deeper principles of loyalty than just job performance. However, there's the shrugged-off bigger point. Oil pollution's becoming a principle is for the ages. What a percentage of Americans accept as inevitable, has us in a noose, pulling at the scapegoats wrapped around our own necks. So that now, now, unfolding before our very eyes -  power's nakedly for its' own sake. Ta da. Why aren't new cars advertised as electric adaptable? A system whereby the world's entire fleet of automobiles is in transition, instead of following myths of superiority - 

  There's so much to be proud of about this par excellence-d imaged world. Which of course, is not really where we are, but perhaps our nadir where we've been all along? History's path littered with all the slogans' collisions, is the nutshell of history.

  Absolutely, the number 1 reality's strength. While flippant arrogance is so far down that quality list's requirements, the country's  been stunned by the show. No? Well. The country's not supposed to be some place with anyone's name on it, is it? 

CMF

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  The (in progress) short story -  

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  Roseanne got good numbers. People are drawn to events. 

  The Death Penalty as a principle may have justification. But the world is just not responsible enough. Ken Saro-Wiwa of Nigeria, etc. Throughout the world the rationalization for execution is wrong and the only way to right it is humans not killing humans. Period. We need to correct the distorted mindsets that create tragedy and hatred's a dangerous thing.

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