Putin Rape "Joke" Betrays Arrogance Of Power

[align=left]Putin Rape "Joke" Betrays Arrogance Of Power
Elixir of power poisons world leaders to believe they are above moral law
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 20 2006
A comment that was not meant to be heard and has since been subject to an intense spin effort betrays the true arrogance of so-called "world leaders" and their apologist media mouthpieces. Vladimir Putin's adulation for Israeli President Moshe Katsav's alleged rape of ten women goes right to the root of the nature of unquestioned power.
The BBC reports,
Mr Putin's comment was made at the end of a press conference held by Mr Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Moscow, which focused mainly on the Iran crisis. [/align]
As the leaders prepared to leave, the microphone caught Mr Putin saying "greetings to your president".
The microphone then went dead, but journalist Andrei Kolesnikov told the BBC he heard the rest of the comment.
He said the president continued: "What a mighty man he turns out to be! He raped 10 women - I would never have expected this from him. He surprised us all - we all envy him!"
[align=left]The report goes in to state how all the dignitaries had a hearty chuckle about raping women.
The spin machine has gone into full effect, with most news reports unquestionably towing the line of the Russian government in claiming the entire affair was one big joke.
What kind of people joke about raping women? The kind that have had their conscience so polluted by the elixir of unchecked power that they literally consider themselves above the universal moral laws of man as defined by Moses on Mt. Sinai.
Read Putin's comment again carefully. A mighty man that he envies? This alleged "joke" was loaded with meaning. Pooty Poots, as Bush calls him, is in adulation of Katsav for raping ten women. He defines his counterpart's impressive manhood by the fact that he had the motivation to sexually molest ten victims.
Why the laissez-faire attitude? The most hardened criminals do not show remorse for their actions. Katsav presided over the deliberate targeting and butchery of 1400 Lebanese civilians in 34 days. Putin has put the former Soviet Union to shame in going further than they could ever dream in erecting a police state and using state terror as means of achieving it.
These individuals are war criminals and mass murderers - to them raping ten women is the moral equivalent of you stepping on a bug. So of course they are going to joke about it with each other - it's the idle chatter of despots.
The nagging voice of conscience that resounds within us all when we knowingly do wrong is absent within individuals who have chosen to sell their souls in return for temporary earthly power.[/align]

All true, but what of the arrogance of thinking you could go around raping woman and nothing would be done? But he was probably right, so I suppose arrogance is the wrong word.

Putin's sexual humour lost in translation, Kremlin says
Oct. 21, 2006. 01:00 AM


MOSCOWâ??President Vladimir Putin made joking references to the sexual assault accusations against Israeli President Moshe Katsav when he met the visiting Israeli prime minister.

As Ehud Olmert met the Russian leader at the Kremlin on Wednesday, reporters overheard Putin tell him: "Say hello to your president. He really surprised us."

The microphones were then cut off but Putin was overheard, adding, "I met him. He didn't look like a guy who could be with 10 women."

Olmert told his host: "I wouldn't envy him," said an Israeli, who heard the talk but sought anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media.

Israeli police want Katsav, 60, charged with rape, aggravated sexual assault and misconduct after women who once worked for him filed complaints. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov explained away the exchange as poor translation. "In no way can (it) be considered as an approval of raping women or an appreciation of such a potential action. Sometimes translation from Russian into English does not reflect the essence of a joke."


Associated Press, Reuters

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Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat

Sometimes translation from Russian into English does not reflect the essence of a joke."


Associated Press, Reuters

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Good point, ever see a babelfish translation of a japanese website?:confused:

This is a perfect example of Prison Planet spin versus actual story. Look at the difference in the top piece posted by Pissy, which is essentially a badly written editorial, and the factual wire story that Breukelen Advocaat posted.

This confirms for me what I already knew anyway--that Prison Planet's writers are completely whacked. Anyone who would attribute that sort of comment by Putin to the arrogance of world leaders and corruption of power is totally unaware of many men's general uninformed attitudes about rape and/or sexual assault. Prison Planet's Paul Joseph Watson is either the most detached blogger who ever touched a keyboard. Or else he had already decided to put a conspiratorial power spin on that story before he considered, even briefly, men's general attitudes about crimes and allegations of this sort.

Stand in a room sometime with a group of men. Ideally macho types. Longshoremen. Maybe football players. Teenaged boys. Blue collar types. White collar types. Or even world leaders. Then introduce the topic of rape and/or sexual assault of women, giving no crime details. Just introduce the topic itself. I guarantee you you can watch the joshing, laughing, snickering and joking that goes on between a number of those men afterwards for many minutes. I've personally witnessed this sort of exchange on four occasions. Once with high school students. Once with my son and some of his college pals, several of whom were frat types. Once with male spouses and partners at the women's shelter/crisis center where I've volunteered for many years. And once in a large room full of white collar male sales execs at a fortune 100 technology company. The more compassionate and tender-hearted guys won't join in the fun, generally, and are uncomfortable with that sort of joshing. But many more will laugh. At least until a woman makes her presence known or steps in and give them a quick (and blisteringly articulate) attitude adjustment.

Men, and plenty of women, too, make the mistake of thinking that rape or sexual assault is about sex, which is why they misguidedly laugh and joke amongst themselves. The subject is naughty and uneasy-making. But in truth while those crimes involve sexual acts, they're actually about violence, anger and domination against the most frequent, more physically vulnerable victims, who are women. Far too few people get this even now.

Putin's comments were not attributable to the corruption of power or arrogance of world leaders. They were directly attributable to the general misunderstanding by men about the true nature of sexual crimes against women. This is arrogance and misunderstanding that's found at every level of society, not just in the corridors of world power.

Only Prison Planet could misinterpret the facts of this story in such a power-paranoiac fashion.

BA..... dont waste time with the truth.


BG...The reason is...Prison Planet...Has a slant, agenda to promote. That is the spin. THey look through anti america glasses.....

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Uhm, you do realize putin isn't american, right? But I guess GW gazed into his soul, and we all know you can't question His Judgement. I capitalized that for you like God.

Andreujaysin, if you'll review Bong's comment to me, you'll actually see that he was referring to Prison Planet looking through those glasses, not Putin. Putin is quite possibly more pro-American than Prison Planet is, even on his worst days.

No need to instigate trouble with Bong30 just because he feels passionately about the country he lives in or supports our elected leader. There are plenty of others here, myself included, who will question our leaders and their policies when they seem to need questioning. That's the beauty of our constitutional freedoms. We can love the country we live in and still express differing views. And we can do so respectfully.

Similarly, we can respect our fellow board members by getting our facts straight before taunting them simply because their views or attitudes are different from our own.

^^Don't get me wrong, I don't believe most of what's on PP, shit I wouldn't have heard of it except for pissheads conspiracy posts, but you don't have to believe them to know putin is gradually snuffing out democracy in russia. Hell, even fox news talks about it.

Ah, indeed. Well, if Fox News talks about it, then we know it must be true and factual and valid. (Infer a sarcastic tone as you read these words.)