"Do not beg the chekists for FREEDOM!"

[Rain]

Do not beg the chekists for FREEDOM!

The city administration of Moscow has banned the meeting of "Yabloko"
fixed on 1 May. The "Yabloko" Party leaders tell that Moscow City
Administration has turned down the claim of the Party and other
organizations to hold a demonstration and rally under the slogan "Civil
society is against the police state", reports "Gazeta.Ru" referring to
Interfax. According to the Deputy Chairman of the "Yabloko" Party Sergei
Mitrokhin, "on Friday we received an official denial from the City Hall.
We are refused to hold a demonstration and meeting under the pretext of
some formal motives".

I am surprised at the naivety of the "Yabloko" representatives, who have
applied for permission to hold a meeting to those people who are the
number one enemies to the same civil society. Of course, to those people
who attended the Duma sessions not long ago and hoped that it would not
concern them, it is difficult to change the methods of work and, so to
say, go to the barricades, i.e. side with Mikhail Trepashkin imprisoned
for his convictions, and the Chechens fighting for freedom. I understand
that it is not easy to change a deputy's tailcoat for the overalls and
it is dangerous to fly in a state of weightlessness, but it is too
ridiculous to run after the chekists and beg permission of being free in
one's own country. If we take a clear view of the situation, it will
become obvious that:

- The authorities are afraid of the dialog with the society, i.e.
something that is impossible to place under control. Therefore, the
first law passed by the new parliament that is fully under the control
of Putin, is the law on prohibition of demonstrations and rallies. Putin
is well aware of the complicated situation in the country and is afraid
of the meetings held by the masses dissatisfied with his regime.

- In the country where state security services persecute the otherwise-
minded, where there is no publicity and freedom of speech, the only
effective means of fighting with the regime is open actions of protest,
such as strikes and demonstrations held, needless to say, regardless of
refusal on the part of the regime. At the same time, a request for
approval by the authorities to hold a meeting is nothing else but a
discredit of the same meeting.

One cannot ask permission of the chastisers to hold a meeting at the
Solovetsky Memorial set up to the victims of the communist regime. It is
a blasphemy with respect to millions of captives tortured in the Soviet
camps and exiles.

Can anyone imagine that on 5 December 1965, on the day of Stalin
Constitution, Vladimir Bukovsky would have applied to the KGB for
permission to hold a dissidents meeting on Pushkin Square, calling on
the communists to respect and observe their Constitution? It was then
that the meeting was held in Moscow. Bukovsky and his companions-in-arms
were well aware of what would have happened. They were sent to prison,
but freedom-loving people all over the world were in sympathy with them.
That was the first open meeting against the Soviet machine held after
1927 (in 1927 the Trotskists organized a demonstration in defense of
Trotsky).

It was then that a small group of defenseless people united by the
aspiration for freedom showed the entire world that the might of the
USSR is a myth. Later it was followed by Afghanistan, which gave a
demonstration of complete lack of combativity of the Soviet Army, the
Polish "solidarity" which showed the feebleness of the authorities
against the workers strikes, and finally, the collapse of the Soviet
Union, however, the end of the KGB and soviet regime started with that
meeting held in 1965, which the chekists will never forget.

Every meeting, demonstration or strike today is overwhelmingly important
to the frightened society. These actions show that society should not be
afraid of the KGB agents that they can be resisted and this should be
done openly and publicly - just when they are losing their power over
the people and society, the power based on fear.

Do not beg the chekists for FREEDOM and right to live in your own
country in accordance with the law and Constitution, which reads: "The
citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to hold meetings,
rallies and demonstrations, peaceful cessions and pickets" (Article 31).

Alexander Litvinenko, London, for Chechenpress.

http://www.chechenpress.info/english...04/16/02.shtml

[Balamut]

dont lie; they didn't reject it yet. Answer would come later.

[Rain]

Im sure.

[Balamut]

If you'r sure, why'd you post that chekists already rejected it?

Because he's sure that they will reject it. This fits his picture of world. Evil chekists.

[Balamut]

I want to hear it from him

I want to look to the eyes of that Alexander Litvinenko sold himself to chechens and their western masters.