Russia the land of Vodka and fury hats, has been the subject to outcry over the last month with its crack down of Homosexuals or as it calls it to stop the
promotion of homosexuality or non-traditional relationships.
In a so called move to "protect" its youth from the drugs, pedos, alcohol, porno and gays, the state has actively persuade a crack down on all who "propagate" homosexuality.
Now lets pause here and look at what "propagating" means:
-"spread and promote (an idea, theory, etc.) widely:the French propagated the idea that the English were drunkards"
as defined by the Oxford dictionary.
For those of you of a more graphic nature it looks like this:
In essence it wants the reader to think or feel in a certain way. In the eyes of the Russians this is propaganda:
Do you feel the urge to have a same sex relationship now (if not already)?
I must say I do not, but this has not stopped the state from pursuing actively all who fly the flag, wear the colours or are openly gay.
Resulting in a storm of "moral" hate that looks a bit like this:
Appalled the world reacted, with Russian products being boycotted and calls for the Winter Olympics to be relocated.
Big names also came out in condemnation, one of them being Steven Fry. The openly gay and Jewish the star of QI wrote an open letter to the Olympic board and the British prime minster, in it he compared the laws and treatment of HBTQ people in Russia to that of hospitality that Adolf Hitlers showed under the Holocaust to the Jews.
The letter can be read here: http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/08/07/an-open-letter-to-david-cameron-and-the-ioc/
One would have thought this stark warning would have been enough, a rallying call to the oppressed and previously oppressed to unite and to say together "Never again". But this sadly is not the case in fact it seems quite the opposite.
In Russia Today's article "Russian Jews outraged after Stephen Fry compared gay propaganda ban to Nazi Germany" http://rt.com/news/russia-jews-fry-comment-396/. This was reply from the Russian Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar.
“Unfortunately, yet again we see people attempting to use sacred memory about the genocide against the Jews and the Holocaust for their own purposes,” Russia’s Chief Rabbi, Berl Lazar, told ITAR-TASS on Monday. He believes that such cynicism insults the memory of millions of people who were murdered during World War II “because of their nationality and faith.”
My only question is this, do the lives 5,000 to 15,000 (see source one)homosexuals killed during the Holocaust not qualify as being sacred then? And do not the lives of those who have affected already not qualify action?
It seems to me strange that one religion and one group has the monopoly on who was or was not affected by the Holocaust and who qualifies for protection and who does not.
Cue Martin Niemoller:
First They Came For The Communists
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
It is still not to late to speak out sign the petition to
"Strip Sochi of the 2014 Winter Games"
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/international-olympic-committee-ioc-strip-sochi-of-the-2014-winter-games
source one http://www.chgs.umn.edu/educational/homosexuals.html
