THIS IS GOING TO SOUND ABSOLUTELY CRAZY, BUT RUSSIA'S
LEGISLATURE JUST TOOK ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS DECRIMINALIZING
DOMESTIC ASSAULT.
THAT'S NOT SORE ñ THAT'S NOT NORMALLY THE SORT OF NEWS THAT
WE GET, IT SOUNDS LIKE BIZARRO NEWS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY
IT'S ALL TOO REAL.
LET ME JUST ASK, DID TRUMP TWEET YET?
PUTIN STRONG, KNEW IT.
HE'S A VERY STRONG MAN, VLADIMIR PUTIN.
"DEPUTIES IN THE LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT HAVE GIVEN INITIAL
APPROVAL TO A BILL LIMITING ñ ELIMINATING COMMERCIAL LIABILITY
FOR THE REST OF VIOLENCE THAT STOPS SHORT OF SERIOUS BODILY
HARM OR RAPE."
"THE BILL WOULD MAKE BATTERY ON A FAMILY MEMBER PUNISHABLE BY A
FINE OF LESS THAN $500 OR A 15 DAY ARREST."
WHICH IS, I GUESS SOMETHING, BUT PERHAPS NOT ENOUGH.
IN THE OLD DAYS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ASSAULT, AND WOULD HAVE HAD
AN APPROPRIATE PENALTY THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FAR MORE THAN
$500 OR 15 DAYS.
BECAUSE IF YOU ASSAULT SOMEONE IN THE STREETS, AND BEAT THEM,
FIRST OF ALL AT ALL, THAT'S A SERIOUS PENALTY IN RUSSIAN LAW,
LET ALONE BEAT THEM FAIRLY AGGRESSIVELY, VICIOUSLY, AN
EVEN GREATER SENTENCE, ETC.
BUT NOW IF YOU ARE DOING IT YOUR WIFE OR KIDS, $500 OR 15 DAYS.
WELL, YOU DIDN'T RAPE THEM OR CAUSE THEM BODILY DAMAGE,
SO IT'S FINE.
I ASSUMED, THESE ARE TRANSLATIONS FROM RUSSIAN, MAYBE
PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO PUT THE WORST POSSIBLE SPIN ON IT, AND
ALL OF THE ARTICLES WERE PEPPERED WITH RUSSIAN
EXPRESSIONS.
EXPRESSIONS LIKE, IF HE HITS YOU YOU KNOW HE LOVES YOU, AND
THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND I DON'T NORMALLY BUY THOSE, BECAUSE THERE ARE MILLIONS OF
OLD EXPRESSIONS AND WHO KNOWS WHAT THAT REPRESENT ñ WHO KNOWS
WHAT THAT REPRESENTS.
BUT WE HAVE A SURVEY WE ARE GOING TO GET TO IN A SECOND, BUT
FIRST, TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW ñ WHAT A PROBLEM TO MASSIVE
VIOLENCE AND ASSAULT ARE IN RUSSIA, IN 2013, MORE THAN 9000
WOMEN WERE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY THE MYSTIC ASSAULTS.
THAT IS IN ONE YEAR.
AND THAT IS NOT, WOMEN WHO WERE HIT, OR WERE INJURED, THAT IS
WOMEN WHO WERE KILLED BY THE MUSICK VIOLENCE THAT IS NOW
BEING TOLERATED AND TO SOME EXTENT DECRIMINALIZED.
CAN I JUST JUMP IN FOR A SECOND?
THIS LAW STILL SAYS THAT YOU CANNOT KILL YOUR WIFE OR
HUSBAND.
ARE WE NOT MERCIFUL?
YES, WE APPRECIATE THAT.
SO YOU SAY, THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO THE 9000 THAT WERE KILLED.
WELL IT DOES, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW IT STARTS.
IT STARTS WITH THE BEATINGS, AND THEN THEY GET WORSE, AND
THEN ONE DAY THEY DIE.
THERE WAS A STORY IN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WHERE THERE WAS
A RELATIVELY FAMOUS STORY ABOUT A WOMAN CALLING INTO AN OFFICER
AND ASKING FOR HELP, AND AN OFFICER ñ AND AGAIN, THIS
REPORTING ñ THIS IS REPORTED FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ñ IT
IS FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN IN RUSSIA THAT OFFICERS DON'T RESPOND
TO THE MESSAGE VIOLENCE CASES, SO THE OFFICER SAID, CALL
ME IF HE IS ABOUT TO KILL YOU.
WELL, SHE COULDN'T BECAUSE HE WAS ABOUT TO KILL HER, AND
HE DID, SO THEY FINALLY INVESTIGATED IT BECAUSE ñ
BUT IT WAS TOO LATE, BECAUSE SHE WAS DEAD.
IF THIS SEEMS CRAZY, WE HAD THIS IN AMERICA NOT TOO LONG AGO.
THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE WHO LEFT BARBARIC VIEWS ON DOMESTIC ABUSE
TODAY, BUT A FEW DAYS AGO IT WAS JUST SORT OF A PRIVATE THING.
THE POLICE GENERALLY DIDN'T GET INVOLVED, THEY THOUGHT,
YEAH, YOU DISCIPLINE YOUR WIFE.
THEY MADE JOKES ABOUT IT IN TV AND MOVIES ñ STILL TODAY, BUT
NOT AS MUCH.
THERE WAS A SURVEY THIS MONTH BY STATE RUN POLLSTER THAT SHOWED
THAT 19% OF RUSSIANS SAID IT CAN BE ACCEPTABLE TO HIT ONE'S WIFE,
HUSBAND OR CHILD IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
AGAIN, I DON'T WANT TO OPEN THIS CAN OF WORMS, BECAUSE I KNOW
PEOPLE WILL HAVE VERY STRONG OPINIONS, BUT WHEN WE TALKED
ABOUT PEOPLE HITTING THEIR KIDS HERE IN AMERICA, OR WHATEVER
TERM THEY USE, A LOT OF PEOPLE, DEPENDING ON THE REGION, THINK
IT IS A GOOD THING.
SO IS IT SURPRISING THAT PEOPLE IN THE OTHER SIDE ñ IN OTHER
PARTS OF THE WORLD SAY, YEAH, YOUR WIFE IS BASICALLY A KID SO
YOU DISCIPLINE HER PHYSICALLY.
WHEN ADRIAN PETERSON FAMOUSLY HIT HIS KIDS WITH A SWITCH,
AND TOOK SKIN OFF THEIR BACKS, PEOPLE DEFENDED HIM.
THEY SAID THAT'S TRADITION, MY PARENTS DID THAT TO ME,
LOOK HOW I TURNED OUT.
WELL, YOU TURNED OUT TO BE AN ABUSER.
A CHILD ABUSER.
DOESN'T SEEM TO BE THE BEST ARGUMENT.
THERE IS WONDERFUL TRADITIONS, THERE IS TERRIBLE TRADITIONS.
THAT SAYING THAT WAS ATTRIBUTED TO THE RUSSIANS, IF HE HITS
YOU HE LOVES YOU, THAT'S A BAD TRADITION.
UNFORTUNATELY, IN THIS CASE, THEY ARE MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE
DIRECTION, AND THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT: THEY WANT TO GET
CONSERVATIVE VOTES.
AND THEY THINK THAT VOTERS WHO WANT BILL TO HIT THEIR KIDS OR
THEIR WIVES ARE GOING TO BUILD ñ
ARE GOING TO SUPPORT VLADIMIR PUTIN AND HIS PARTY MORE.
NOW, PUTIN HAS NOT SIGNED THIS YET.
IT HAS TO MAKE IT TO THE LOWER HOUSE AND THE UPPER HOUSE AND
THEN CAN EVENTUALLY PROCEED, ALTHOUGH HE HAS SPOKEN ABOUT IT
AND SEEMS FAVORABLE OF THIS CHANGE.
EARLIER HE HAD SAID MAYBE IT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA TO BEAT YOUR
KIDS, BUT THEN WHEN A REPORTER PRESSED HIM ON IT HE WAS LIKE,
WELL YEAH, MAYBE, LET'S SEE HOW THAT TURNS OUT, AND MAYBE IT
SHOULD JUST BE A SMALL FINE.
AND THAT REASON FOR PUSHING THIS SORT OF THING, WE HAVE THAT
HERE IN AMERICA.
POLITICIANS IN AMERICA LOVE TO PRETEND THAT THEY ARE FROM
APPALACHIA OR WHEREVER.
DONALD TRUMP ALL OF A SUDDEN CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT HOW
MUCH FAST FOOD HE EATS, EVEN THOUGH IN ONE OF HIS BOOKS A
DECADE AGO HE TALKS ABOUT HOW YOU NEED TO EAT EXPENSIVE FOOD,
AND HE ONLY EATS LEMON TILAPIA, BLAH BLAH BLAH.
DEMOCRATS DO IT TOO, THEY ALL OF A SUDDEN GET ACCENTS WHEN
THEY GO DOWN SOUTH.
I WAS PHYSICALLY DISCIPLINED WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, I
GET THE BASIC IDEA.
ONE OF THE CO-AUTHORS OF THE BILL DEFENDED IT, SAYING,
"BATTERY DOESN'T EVEN INVOLVE GRAVE BODILY HARM.
WE ARE ONLY TALKING ABOUT BRUISES, SCRATCHES, WHICH IS
BAD, TOO, OF COURSE."
AND WE HAVE A GREAT QUOTE FROM AN ACTIVIST, SHE PUT TOGETHER AN
ONLINE PETITION TRYING TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING, THAT GOT
OVER 180,000 SIGNATURES.
SHE SAID, "I THINK IT'S PART OF AN OVERALL IDEOLOGY: AGGRESSION
AND VIOLENCE ARE ON THE RISE IN SOCIETY IN GENERAL THIS WAR IS
EVERYWHERE AND WE ARE SURROUNDED BY ENEMIES,"
SHE REFERRED TO THE STATE MEDIA NARRATIVE THAT BETRAYS RUSSIA AS
A BESIEGED FORTRESS.
I FIND THAT INTERESTING BECAUSE THAT IS DIRECTLY ñ THAT IS
EXACTLY THE SAME NARRATIVE WE GOT OUT OF THE INAUGURATION.
RIGHT-WINGERS ARE THE SAME EVERYWHERE.
THEY CONSIDERED VERY SIMILAR LAWS IN TURKEY, IS IT SO
BAD TO BEAT YOUR WIFE?
AND WHAT UNITES THEM IS NOT THERE RELIGION OR ETHNIC CITY,
IT'S AN IDEOLOGY: MEN ARE IN CHARGE, THE PAST IS GREAT, DON'T
MAKE PROGRESS INTO THE FUTURE, AND WE DON'T WANT EQUALITY.
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