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PUSSY RIOT - Marian Price - Demand RELEASE MARTIN COREY

According to the Belfast Telegraph

"As Marian McGlinchey was returned for trial accused of aiding and abetting at an Easter commemoration event, her lawyers sought reporting restrictions in the case.

They argued that she faced greater threat of being killed by loyalist paramilitaries if her details and any up-to-date photos were published.

But a judge at Belfast Magistrates' Court refused to grant the order due to a lack of evidence that the risk to life is real and immediate.

McGlinchey (59) and of no fixed address, is charged in connection with a demonstration at Derry City Cemetery in April 2011.

It is alleged that she helped another person who addressed the rally in support of an outlawed organisation, namely the Irish Republican Army.

McGlinchey, also known as Marian Price, served a jail sentence along with her late sister Dolours for the 1973 IRA bomb attack on the Old Bailey in London.

She was returned to prison when her licence was revoked following the new charge, spending two years in custody before finally being released earlier this year.  

Along with her late sister Dolours, she distanced herself from mainstream republicanism over Sinn Fein's support for the Northern Ireland peace process.

Plagued by ill-health in recent years, she appeared in court today for a preliminary enquiry to determine whether she has a case to answer on the aiding and abetting a terrorist rally charge.

Wearing a brown duffel coat and glasses, McGlinchey shook her head when asked if she wanted to give evidence or call witnesses at this stage in the case.

District Judge Barney McElholm ruled that there was a prima facie case against her and returned her for trial at Belfast Crown Court on a date to be set.

She was bailed to live at an address in Belfast but banned from applying for a new passport without prior permission.

Seeking the anonymity order, defence counsel Sean Devine produced a doctor's report which stated media attention was likely to cause greater anxiety and worsen her medical condition.

He argued that police had previously informed her that she was under threat.

A newspaper article from June this year claiming loyalist paramilitaries still planned to kill her at the first opportunity was also produced.

Contending that McGlinchey's physical appearance has changed, Mr Devinesaid: "The level of protection being sought is relatively modest - images of her should not be published."

But a prosecution barrister opposed the application, stressing the late notification given by the defence.

He added: "The defendant has on previous occasions sought to use the media in pursuit of her own political and ideological ambitions.

"She was aware of the threats on her."

Dismissing the application, Judge McElholm accepted McGlinchey's appearance had altered but suggested it may be due to her now wearing glasses.

He also pointed to the amount of images and information about her already in the public domain.

After referring to the need for any anonymity application to be notified to police and prosecutors at the earliest opportunity, he ruled: "At the moment we have no objective evidence as to whether or not there is a real and immediate risk to the life and well-being of the applicant.

" ' In those circumstances I refuse to make an anonymity order.' "

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Pussy Riot vs Marian Price v Julian Assange v British Gestapo

Pussy Riot vs Marian Price -
To each their own Hero and Villain 
A couple of high profile freedom of speech cases are unfolding particularly in the UK. The Pussy Riot sentencing in Moscow, the granting by Ecuador of political asylum to Julian Assange and finally the continues interrnment in British occupied Ireland of Marian Price. These cases are in many ways similar, if not, at least comparable to each other.  In two of the cases, we have college drop-outs breaking the laws of major power, while the British Gestapo are prosecuting two and in all cases the offenders have become something of a symbol of resistance to the power of the state. The British gestapo state internement without trial and torture of Marian Price is essentially about denying the right to free speech.  There are also some important differences between them, critical ones, which would also make it reasonable to say these cases as not similar but opposites.

So in order to organize the issues it was decided to make a little table comparing and contrasting the Pussy Riot and Marian Price cases.  This is, of course, hardly an exhaustive comparison.  Think of it rather as a "back of the napkin" kind of quick review:
 

	Pussy Riot	Marian Price
Origin	Russia	Irish
Persona	Collective & anonymous	Personal individual
Crime	Proven hate crime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALS92big4TY	Alledged holding of piece of paper at a political republican commemoration ceremony.
Ideological motive	Remove Putin from power, “3rd generation feminism”, homosexuality	Self-determination for Ireland. Open society, equality information freedom, free press, liberty.
Potential penalty	2 years medium security (sentenced)	Life supermax (in USA)
Defence tactic	Deny responsibility	NO charge, no trial
Legality	In line with mainstream law: http://mercouris.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/pussy-riot-2/	Unprecedented application of overruling law and internement without trial
Supporter	Western governments Western elites Russian elites	Democratic republic Worldwide opinion People of no property.
Past activities	Voina Performance Group: http://kaifolog.ru/2010/08/27/poshto-pizdili-kuru-22-foto.html http://plucer.livejournal.com/281211.html?nojs=1	Human rights activist, political prisoner activist. Irish republican.
Education	College drop-out	Nursing forced-out

 

And yet, looking at this table, I find myself wondering how a Russian "performance group" (that is what they call themselves) like Pussy Riot became the almost instant mega-hero of so many Western public figures.  Do you think that I am exaggerating?  Then check out this list of Pussy Riot supporters I found on Wikipedia:

Kate Nash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Cornershop, Faith No More, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, Patti Smith, The Beastie Boys, Refused, Zola Jesus, Die Antwoord, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Townshend, The Joy Formidable, Peaches, Madonna, Genesis, Tegan and Sara, Johnny Marr, Courtney Love, Iiro Rantala, Propagandhi, Anti-Flag, Rise Against, Corinne Bailey Rae, Peter Hammill, Kathleen Hanna, Björk, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, British comedian Stephen Fry, Reykjavík Mayor Jón Gnarr and Warren Kinsella.  A letter of support from 120 members of the German parliament, the Bundestag, was sent to the Russian Ambassador to Germany, Vladimir Grinin. The letter referred to proceedings against the women as being disproportionate and draconian. On August 9, 2012, 400 Pussy Riot supporters in Berlin marched wearing colored balaclavas in a show of support for the group.

To this, I would add the very intensive and, frankly, totally over-the-top coverage of the Western corporate media of the Pussy Riot trial.

Amazing, no?  Could it be due to the quality of actual "musical performance" (called "punk prayer") which got these ladies arrested?  Well, judge for yourself:

 

 

And to get a full "appreciation" for their artistic "talent", here is the translation of the lyrics:

 

St. Maria, Virgin, Drive away Putin

Drive away! Drive away Putin!

Black robe, golden epaulettes

All parishioners are crawling and bowing

The ghost of freedom is in heaven

Gay pride sent to Siberia in chains

The head of the KGB is their chief saint

Leads protesters to prison under escort

In order not to offend the Holy

Women have to give birth and to love

Holy shit, shit, Lord's shit!

Holy shit, shit, Lord's shit!

St. Maria, Virgin, become a feminist

Become a feminist, Become a feminist

Church praises the rotten dictators

The cross-bearer procession of black limousines

In school you are going to meet with a teacher-preacher

Go to class - bring him money!

Patriarch Gundyaev believes in Putin

Bitch, you better believed in God

Belt of the Virgin is no substitute for mass-meetings

In protest of our Ever-Virgin Mary!

St. Maria, Virgin, Drive away Putin

Drive away! Drive away Putin!

While I cannot disagree with some of the ideas contained in this screed (the Moscow Patriarchate is, indeed, both highly corrupted and totally controlled by the Kremlin, and "Patriarch" Gudaev is a scoundrel and crook of the worst kind), it is rather obvious to me that the real intention of this performance is not to denounce any wrongs, but to achieve a maximum shock effect.  In fact, the Pussy Riot collective is nothing but the latest re-packaging of the infamous "Voina" ("war" in Russian)  performance group which became famous by such "events" as organizing group sex flash mobs in public museums or having sex with a frozen chicken in a supermarket. You probably think that I am jocking, right?  Nope, and to prove this, I am (reluctantly) posting these (deliberately small sized) photos of these "events" here.  And if you think that I am exaggerating something, you can click on these photos for a better view of these "events" or you can even follow the following links for a full series of large, non-pixellated, and rather nauseating photographs:

 

http://kaifolog.ru/2010/08/27/poshto-pizdili-kuru-22-foto.html

 

http://plucer.livejournal.com/281211.html?nojs=1

 

 

If the first of these events was supposed to be some kind of statement about (then) President Medvedev, the second one - entitled "why was the chicken f*cked" and "tale about how the c*nt fed the war" - did not even carry some vague message of any kind.
 

It is rather obvious these ladies, whether packaged as "Pussy Riot" or as "Voina", have no other message and no other purpose than to offend, disgust or shock.  Their sole stroke of genius was to add to their usual sex-centered "performances" an anti-Putin and anti-Orthodox message.  Here, they really struck gold as that got them an overnight hero status in the West.  And that, in turn, says much more about the West, than about these sexually frustrated and otherwise dysfunctional women.

Indeed, while the western elites are lining up behind Pussy Riot, a putatively civilized western country like the UK is acting like some kind of comic-book Nazi regime, writing threat letters to a sovereign country like Ecuador:
 

 

For all the diplomatic verbiage wrapped around it, this is a crude, mobster like, letter of blackmail.  Furthermore, and as I already mentioned in my commentary yesterday, there is absolutely no precedent in recent history to the kind of behavior shown by the UK in this matter.  In fact, ALL of the Assange case is one never ending exercise in bending and abusing the law for the purpose of persecuting Assange: from the ridiculous allegations of non-protected sex, to the Interpol Red Notice, to the categorical refusal of the Swedish prosecutors to interview Assange in the UK, to the British refusal to give any guarantees of non-extradition and, finally, the the British threats to storm the Ecuadorian embassy - its all totally without precedent.
 

Compare that, again, to the case of the Pussy Riot prosecution in Russia which is very much in line, or even less severe, than what is considered the norm in most western countries (check this excellent and detailed legal analysis by Alexander Mercouris for more info).
 

It is true that what is at the core of both issues is free speech.  It does not matter whether speech is intended to be political or in support of some noble ideal, or whether free is used to offend, insult or shock.  Speech is speech regardless.  However, why is it that the western elites do not support all forms of hate-speech like they do support Pussy Riot's?
 

Would anybody seriously suggest that if these ladies had organized their performance in, say, a French synagogue, the western elites would all rise up in their defense?  Of course not.   So what is going on here?
 

Furthermore, speech is not the same as opinion.  If, at least in theory, western societies do not limit the expression of opinion, they all limit the freedom of speech be it for national security reasons, repression of hate crimes, liable laws, etc.
 

So let's cut through the crap here and set the record straight: the West's support for Pussy Riot is not due to to their opinions about Putin or the Moscow Patriarchate (such opinions can - and are -  frequently and freely expressed in Russia), and neither is it due to some unconditional support for free speech, which the West also restricts (much more so than Russia, I would argue).
 

The sad truth is that the West's support for Pussy Riot is, in reality, nothing more than yet another expression of its rabid hatred for anything Russian or Russian Orthodox.  And if that means erecting a small group of sexually dysfunctional women into a banner for freedom, so be it!  And that if that also means looking away from the obscene and outrageous persecution of a real hero for freedom like Julian Assange by the US Empire and its vassals - then so be it also!

In a paradoxical way, Pussy Riot are a perfect symbol of what the West stands for, just as Julian Assange has become a symbol for what Russia - and all the other nations on earth which refuse to submit to the US Empire - stand for.
 

I see some poetic justice here, a form of karma, really.  The modern, post-Christian, pagan, West, with all its boundless hypocrisy and arrogance, has sunk to a gutter level of ideological warfare, openly supporting the sick and pathological and persecuting the noble and courageous.  I also find it quite beautiful that a small country like Ecuador has dared to do that which all the otherwise self-enamored countries of Europe could not: show some true courage, dignity and self-respect.
 

Truly - to each his own hero and his own villain. 
 

Epilogue (provisional):
 

So Pussy Riot got themselves two years in jail.  I would have preferred that they be given 5 years of community service (you know, actually doing something halfway productive for their fellow Russians),  but that would immediately turn into yet another media circus, so I guess the judge made a good call.
 

As for Assange, his future will depend on the courage, or lack thereof, of the rest of the Latin American countries.  Ecuador cannot, by itself, prevail in a contest of wills against Uncle Sam's Poodle, but if this case sufficiently polarizes the public opinion in Latin America, the resulting public outrage might have some financial consequences for the UK and that might well force it to find some civilized and mutually acceptable solution to this embarrassing situation.  It would be nice if Russia or China also helped, but I am not holding my breath here - these two are not known for their altruism.
 

One more thing:

I apologize to anybody offended by the crude photos I posted today.  First, I assume that we are all adults here, but more importantly, and just like in my two articles about the "homo-lobby" (here and here), I feel that it is important to show things for what they really are and not just stick to abstract concepts.  It is one thing to discuss "sexual diversity" or "freedom of speech" and quite another to see a half-naked "man" with feathers or a woman publicly sticking a frozen chicken into her vagina.  A crude, disgusting, pathological and grotesque reality needs to be shown for what it is, and not for what its supporters want it to be.

 

The Saker

PS: Check today's BBC "coverage" of Julian Assange standing up to the British gestapo.

PPS: Here is the Ukrainian version of support for Pussy Riot:

 

Topless Protester Cuts Down Cross in Kiev

Activists from the Ukrainian feminist group Femen cut down a wooden crucifix in the center of the country’s capital, Kiev, on Friday in support of members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot whose trial on hooliganism charges comes to an end today.

A video posted online showed a topless blond Femen protester wearing red shorts, with the words “Free Riot” scrawled across her chest and arms, cutting the cross with a chainsaw and then pulling it down using a rope pulled by two other activists, and then posing with her arms extended crucifix-style.

The cross was put up on a high hill near Kiev’s downtown Independence Square during the 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution to commemorate the victims of political repression under Joseph Stalin.

“By this act, Femen is calling on all the healthy forces of our society to mercilessly cut out of our brains the rotten religious prejudices which dictatorships rely upon and which prevent the development of democracy and women’s freedom,” the Segodnya daily quoted the activists as saying.

http://en.rian.ru/society/20120817/175271764.html

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PUSSY RIOT CRAIC CENSORED IN BRITISH OCCUPIED IRELAND

Pussy Riot Craic in British Occupied Ireland - Indymedia Ireland

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Pussy Riot Craic in British Occupied Ireland

 international | rights and freedoms | opinion/analysis  Friday August 17, 2012 20:34 by BrianClarkeNUJ - AllVoices 

Amnesty International Selective Internrment?

“Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock collective that stages politically provocative impromptu performances in Moscow, on subjects such as the status of women in Russia, and most recently against the election campaign of Prime Minister Putin for president of Russia.”* In particular, they seem to dislike like that Putin has made an informal political alliance or understanding with the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church." - Wikipaedia

Pussy Riot Craic

Described by Wikipaedia as follows: “Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock collective that stages politically provocative impromptu performances in Moscow, on subjects such as the status of women in Russia, and most recently against the election campaign of Prime Minister Putin for president of Russia.”* In particular, they seem to dislike like that Putin has made an informal political alliance or understanding with the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church."

As you probably already know Pussy Riot were sentenced yesterday after a trail, to two years in prison for their now-famous anti-Vladimir Putin cathedral performance in Moscow. So let's try and compare what’s happening in Russia to these women, to what we would expect would happen to them, if they were Irish and had done a similar thing in British Occupied Ireland where Marian Price is currently interned without trial, for holding up a piece of paper on a windy day in Derry at an Easter commemoration. Two judges and the Queen have already ordered her release but the unelected english Vice royal has ordered she be interned without trial. Marian has since spent more 15 months incarcerated and almost a year with sensory deprivation of solitary torture and is currently on her death bed in a Belfast hospital, with the threat of assassination hanging over her by a British death squad.

We have witnessed the treatment of Sinead O'Connor, who as a result of tearing up a picture of the pope because of child rape who was then ostracized and her career destroyed. So if Pussy Riot were to have their craic say in St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast it is highly likely that like Marian, they would not even get a trial as they have in Russia or they would in China, but would instead be shot by the British. Not directly with one of their SAS teams as they did with Mairead Farrell but behind the cover of one of their sponsored loyalist hit squads, as they did with the leading human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson, whom the British murdered with a bomb under her car.

That's serious enough but were Pussy Riot to have their craic in say the principal Free Presbyterian Church of Ian Paisley, Iris Robinson and her husband Peter's congregation and partake in drinking from their mutual furry cups, all hell would break loose. Were Pussy Riot to attempt to introduce Iris to sapphic love or sleep and have the craic with her in the Free Presbyterian Church, I believe pleasuring Iris, particularly as Pussy Riot are women themselves, then certainly it would be regarded as more than just hooligan behaviour by Ulsters God fearing loyalists and their Vice royal pervert of justice. The fires of Ulsters twelfth Hell wold be the resting place of all the Rioting Pussies.

Pussy Riot are indeed no slouch in the girl-on-girl department craic, according to one fenian furry cup guru. "It tends to be the case that normal lesbians or bisexual moles may not perhaps be as well endowed as some unrepentant lesbian fenian barstewards in the phwoaaar department but Free Presbyterians tend to make indifferent lovers. Wives of the horsey foxhunting set on the other hand, particularly those with experience riding in gay Mongolia, can lead a whimpering foxy wife of a Unionist or Tory politician, to a shattering climax within seconds, before continuing to work the trembling wives of the orange order for days, if not weeks. However as I expressed my doubts to the fenian lesbians, they became increasingly agitated and insisted, I had completely missed the point. The debate became increasingly acrimonious until, incredibly, the furious fenian lesbians pulled down their shorts and proceeded to urinate onto two expensive loyalist communion cups to make their point.

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Punk public prayer "Mother of Jesus, Putin banish" - "Pussy Riot" in the Temple

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