Prosecutor Alexei Nikiforov demands a three-year jail term for Pussy Riot. But the case has caused a global outcry and many international musicians, including Madonna, Sting, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, have appealed for leniency. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Pussy Riot's lawyer Violetta Volkova condemned the prosecution's religulous rhetoric as embarrassing. Volkova went on to stress that it felt like the religulous morons weren't in the 20th century, but in Alice in Wonderland!
Volkova pledged she will take her clients' case to the European Court of Human Rights because the Russian court is not dealing with the case fairly. Volkova said: We weren't given one opportunity to speak with the defendants. They're empty words, it's a lie that we're allowed to consult each other during the court proceedings. The state prosecution has done everything possible to deprive us of our rights.
Pussy Riot's lawyer Mark Feigin said: Why is Russia not a theocratic state? If the Constitution admitted God exists, we would understand the church norms penetrating the Criminal Code. I am also a religious person and have been insulted by their act. But this is not an offence which can be called criminal.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova told the court: Every time they are talking about religious hatred, this blows my head off. I demand acquittal. The evidence of my motives is unsubstantial as I did not have such a motive. I DID NOT. If the participants of the process knew about such thing as `punk' it would have been so much easier. We are jesters, clowns, probably holy fools, but we don't mean evil.
Ekaterina Samutsevich told the court: Prosecutors say we have been hiding our hatred towards religious people behind our political slogans. But we were not the ones to make Christ the Savior Cathedral a political stage. It was Patriarch Kirill when he insisted the parish should vote for Vladimir Putin in the presidential poll.
From the very beginnging, the Pussy Riot trial has been accompanied by protests and calls for authorities to free the three activists. Three protesters had to be forcibly removed from the courthouse, after climbing on to the building's scaffolding.
Madonna, whose songs include 'Like a Virgin' and 'Like a Prayer' says: I am against censorship and throughout my whole career I've always promoted freedom of expression, freedom of speech. So obviously, I think that what happened to Pussy Riot is unfair. I hope they do not have to serve years in jail. That would be a tragedy. I think art should be political. Historically speaking, art always reflects what's going on socially. So for me, it's hard to separate the idea of being an artist and being political.
Czar Putin promotes theocracy to perpetuate his power. Across Putinland, fear of Putin turns to religious worship! In Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg, a proliferation of posters show Putin as an angel, with one hand extended, blessing the city's inhabitants. Putin's face is mounted on a photo of the cherubim crowning the
city's Peter and Paul Cathedral. http://venitism.blogspot.com
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