What must impress the casual observer most about the self-absorbed "activists" who call themselves Pussy Riot is the relentless inanity of their so-called protests.
Pussy Riot is the latest iteration of a loose-knit collective of spoiled youth united only in their principled rejection of paid employment. Instead, they are supported by allowances provided by US based democracy promotion NGO's, which is a win-win all round. The activists are free to pursue their dissolute lifestyles and dream up publicity stunts, while the NGO's leverage those stunts into anti-Putin propaganda.
Thus the two hour press conference yesterday represented a windfall return on investment for those democracy promoters. Prominently covered by all major Western media, the just-pardoned Rioteers earned their keep with a shambolic anti-Putin diatribe.
Full steam ahead with the over-throw of Putin was their rallying cry!
Aside from the predictable anti-Putin ranting, the news conference did offer some welcome revelations. The Rioteers are promising not to perform or record any more of their "punk rock."
Anybody remotely acquainted with the genre long ago recognized that what these folks were doing was neither "punk" nor "rock" by any conceivable stretch of the imagination. You could randomly throw together three or four people who have never held musical instruments in their hands, provide them with guitars and amplifiers, and within half an hour they would inevitably have achieved a level of musicianship far beyond anything Pussy Riot has exhibited.
That's not music, gals...
By far the best quote from the presser has to be from Nadia Tolotonnikova:
The scariest thing about Putin's Russia is the impossibility to speak and be heard.
Ponder that for a moment. She is speaking those words at a news conference in Putin's Russia to a crowd of journalists from all over the world.
That pretty much speaks for itself!
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