AN ANTI-RUSSIA PUBLICATION HAS WRITTEN A STORY ABOUT MISSING
GAME AND IN CHECHNYA, WHICH IS VERY CONCERNING, ESPECIALLY WHEN
YOU CONSIDER THE FACT THAT THE LEADER OF CHECHNYA HAS A VERY
CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN, WHO IS VERY CLEARLY
ANTI-GAY.
AS MANY AS 100 GAY MEN HAVE BEEN ROUNDED UP, AND SOME OF THEM ARE
ALLEGEDLY DEAD.
SO, WE DON'T KNOW MANY DETAILS ABOUT THIS BUT HERE IS WHAT
WE DO KNOW:
MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN HAVE BEEN DETAINED AT LEAST THREE HAVE
BEEN KILLED IN ñ BY AUTHORITIES IN TOUCH NEAR, ACCORDING TO
THE RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER.
ALSO, DOZENS OF MEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16 AND 50
HAVE BEEN DETAINED IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR NONTRADITIONAL
SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR SUSPICION OF SUCH.
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IS KNOWN FOR ITS HOSTILITY TOWARDS
THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY.
IT IS VERY SIMILAR TO, YOU KNOW,
WHAT WE REPORTED YEARS AGO,
WHERE RUSSIAN OFFICIALS WOULD ARGUE THAT TALKING ABOUT
ANYTHING RELATED TO THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY IS GAY PROPAGANDA
THAT COULD HARM CHILDREN, SO THEY DID NOT WANT PEOPLE
TALKING ABOUT IT IN PUBLIC FORUMS AND SUPPORTING IT.
AND IN CHECHNYA RECENTLY THERE WERE A NUMBER OF LGBT PEOPLE
WHO WANTED TO DO A GAY PRIDE PARADE, AND SO SOME WERE ARGUING
THAT THIS IS IN RETALIATION TO THOSE DEMONSTRATIONS.
AND OF COURSE SOME OF THOSE FOLKS WERE ARRESTED IN THAT
PARADE AS WELL.
SO, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE WERE WORRIED ABOUT DOT IN THE
BEGINNING THEY SAID, OH WELL, WE ARE JUST SAYING THAT WE ARE
NOT AGAINST GAY PEOPLE, WE ARE JUST AGAINST GAY PROPAGANDA.
AND WE ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT ADULTS, WE ARE WORRIED
ABOUT THE CHILDREN.
IT ALWAYS STARTS WITH THE CHILDREN, RIGHT?
AND THEN HE GETS A LITTLE WORSE, LITTLE WORSE, AND ALL THE
WHILE PEOPLE ARE LIKE, DON'T BE ALARMIST, IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL.
AND THEN THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE BEING ROUNDED
UP, AND IF THE RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER IS RIGHT, AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
IS REPORTING WHAT THEY ARE ALLEGING HERE, APPARENTLY
THEY HAVE STARTED KILLING GAY CITIZENS IN CHECHNYA.
YEAH, SO DEVICE HAS REPORTED THAT TWO OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
ALLEGEDLY MURDERED WERE REPORTERS, AND ALSO OFFICIALS IN
CHECHNYA ARE DENYING THIS, AND SAYING THAT THIS IS A COMPLETELY
MADE UP APRIL FOOLS' STORY, SO NO ONE SHOULD BUY INTO IT,
BUT THERE IS A STATEMENT FROM THE LEADER OF CHECHNYA
WHICH I THINK IS IMPORTANT.
HE HAS DENIED THAT ANY SUCH ACTIVITIES HAVE TAKEN PLACE.
HE FURTHER SUGGESTED THAT THERE ARE NO KEY PEOPLE IN THE
COUNTRY AT ALL.
HE SAYS, " YOU CANNOT ARREST OR REPRESS PEOPLE WHO JUST
DON'T EXIST IN THE REPUBLIC.
IF SUCH PEOPLE IN ñ
IF SUCH PEOPLE EXISTED IN CHECHNYA, LAW-ENFORCEMENT
WOOD ON UP TO WORRY ABOUT THEM, AS THEIR OWN RELATIVES
WOULD HAVE SENT THEM TO WHERE THEY COULD NEVER RETURN."
LET'S BRING THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
FIRST OF ALL, FOR THE GUYS SAYING THAT IT'S AN APRIL FOOLS
JOKE,
TO THEN TURN AROUND AND SAY THAT IF THEY EXISTED, THEIR RELATIVES
WOULD SEND THEM TO A PLACE THAT THEY WOULD NEVER RETURN
FROM, WELL THEN OKAY, IT'S NOT A JOKE AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO
MAKE THEM DISAPPEAR, SO WHICH ONE IS IT?
IT'S NOT A JOKE, THE NEW YORK TIMES IS REPORTING IT.
AGAIN, IT COMES FROM NOVELLA GAZETA, AND IT IS IN THE
MIDDLE OF CHECHNYA, WHERE IT IS A SUPERHARD REPORT, SO THAT
IS WHY WE ARE GIVING YOU ALL THE CAVEATS ABOUT, THEY ARE
REPORTING THIS, AND HARD TO DETERMINE ALL THE DIFFERENT
ASPECTS OF IT.
BUT THIS QUOTE FROM THE CHECHNYA REPRESENTATIVE REMINDS ME OF
WHAT WAS SAID IN IRAN, THEY SAID THERE WERE NO GAYS IN IRAN.
AND WHATEVER THEY ARE ABOUT TO ARREST, DETAIN, REPRESS, OR
MAYBE EVEN KILL GAY CITIZENS, THE THING THEY SAY IS,
THERE ARE NO GAYS.
BY THE WAY, THIS CHECHNYA LEADER, WHO IS JUST LIKE PUTIN,
WHO LOVES TO TAKE HIS SHIRT OFF, AND PRAISE DADDY PUTTIN, GOING
AROUND WITH HIS SHIRT OFF AND TELLING US HOW MUCH HE LOVES
DADDY PUTIN, OKAY, I KNOW, THERE ARE NO GAYS IN CHECHNYA.
I DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE USING IT AS AN EXCUSE TO KILL SOME
REPORTERS, BUT ANYWAY YOU LOOK AT IT, IT IS DEEPLY TROUBLING.
WHEN THEY TELL YOU THAT THEY HAVE STARTED TO TAKE ACTIONS
AGAINST A CERTAIN MINORITY, DON'T WORRY, DON'T BE ALARMIST,
IT WILL AND POORLY: IT ALMOST ALWAYS ENDS POORLY.
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