[HN Gopher] Moscow Detention Centers Have Run Out of Space, Fill...
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Moscow Detention Centers Have Run Out of Space, Filled with
Peaceful Protesters
Author : dondeee
Score : 24 points
Date : 2021-02-02 20:22 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.amnesty.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.amnesty.org)
| ndiscussion wrote:
| I'm not exactly a bootlicker, and I'm not informed on the
| situation, but do we have any proof this isn't the same kind of
| peaceful protests we had in the USA?
|
| https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cnn-ridiculed-for-fi...
|
| Any sane government would be arresting people involved with
| torching police buildings. If these people are innocent, I pray
| for their release.
| bvrmn wrote:
| We are walking peacefully without looting and riots.
| Authorities decline any attempt to get permission for peaceful
| demonstration which allows them to justify police violence.
| Situation is pretty grim.
| leshenka wrote:
| First protest this year was at Jan 23rd. Lots of people, lots
| of, as we're calling them, cosmonauts. Lots of violence towards
| unarmed people, zero looting. Singular acts of someone hitting
| or fighting policemen that were wearing full body armor and a
| helmet with lovered visor and often without badge. (hence
| cosmonauts)
|
| If you were to tune to any government-controlled news channel
| (pretty much all of them), you'd only see three-minute
| compilation of "violent protesters" whereas numerous internet
| media outlets were showing the full picture, all day, live,
| from all angles.
|
| Go figure.
| dondeee wrote:
| >Russian authorities have arrested so many people in recent weeks
| that detention centres in Moscow have run out of space
|
| This fact astounds me, I cannot believe that the Russian
| Government still somehow think they are the good guys here.
| vladTheInhaler wrote:
| Why would you think that they feel a need to be the "good
| guys"? They are doing their part in perpetuating a power
| structure that benefits them personally.
| dondeee wrote:
| To be frank, I do not think they feel such a need, I was just
| trying to get the conversation in the comments started
| because I feel the need to attract as much attention to this
| as I personally can.
| netsharc wrote:
| Yeah, the police are probably corrupt (random URL to back up
| my hypothesis: [0]), I remember reading a great book about
| corruption, Thieves of State, discussed here [1], it talks
| why the police would be defending the system:
|
| > Any highly corrupt society is bound together by a series of
| interlocking reciprocities: the local policeman who shakes
| down a passing civilian must in turn pay tribute to his
| police supervisor, who must pay his supervisor, and so forth;
| favors or spoils may be distributed in the other direction.
|
| My guess is the cops justify their work like in Stanford
| prison experiment, and they accept without further thinking
| what Putin says that the protesters are "foreign agents".
|
| [0] https://nationalpost.com/news/world/cost-of-corruption-
| in-ru... [1]
| https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-
| rev...
| dondeee wrote:
| Thank you very much for the book reference, I am definitely
| reading this. I think understanding the police psychology
| is a great insight.
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