Liberal-Democrats say homosexuals should be executed

[Claverhouse]

Whilst perusing online Pravda, and admiring their photoshoot: 'Olympic athletes compete in eroticism', I noticed that the revered leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky and that party are proposing in the Duma that persons convicted of homosexual practices should be sentenced to death. 'One of the most dangerous crimes.'

Pravda Report (http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/361/14379_homosexual.html)

Neither homosexuality nor the death penalty have any great personal attractions to me; but I don't think they should be linked. If anyone here feels liberal enough to support Gen. V. V. Zhirinovsky and his democratic beliefs I'd like to hear the arguments.



Claverhouse :ph34r:


V. V. Zhirinovsky is Deputy Speaker of the Duma.

[Johnny]

When I think of liberal democrats here in the States, I think of individuals who wish to see the "personal freedom" envelope pushed as far forward as humanly possible without infringing on anyone or anything, and having those freedoms funded entirely with generous government subsidies as needed. :lol:

With that said, there's not much I can offer regarding the Liberal Democratic Party of the Russian Federation's position beyond its moral reprehensibility. Perhaps something important was missed in the English to Russian translation?

:sombrero:

[Division56]

Don't we have a Russian here?

*remembers a location "from Russia with love :-*"*

[Claverhouse]

Perhaps something important was missed in the English to Russian translation?:sombrero:

Oh, I don't think Zhirinovsky has ever flinched from making his views perfectly clear. On any subject on earth. Particularly the moral regeneration of Mother Russia, and the best chap to carry out this awesome work



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[Division56]

Perhaps something important was missed in the English to Russian translation?:sombrero:

Oh, I don't think Zhirinovsky has ever flinched from making his views perfectly clear. On any subject on earth. Particularly the moral regeneration of Mother Russia, and the best chap to carry out this awesome work



Claverhouse :ph34r:


I read somewhere (The Nation?) that gay rights are regressing in Russia. Very quickly.

[Claverhouse]

Don't we have a Russian here?

*remembers a location "from Russia with love :-*"*

You may be thinking of Niflheimian. However, although I am sure ( from Asgaard, we take a tolerant view of the other circles ) he is as incapable of telling an untruth as myself: what people put, isn't always what is so. Even in Russia.

BTW I put that Vladimir Volfovich was Deputy Speaker; I would like to take this opportunity of clarifying a possible mistake: he may, or he may not be. He certainly was in 2001, when he ( and the rest of his democratically elected members presumably ) refused to stand up for one of those 'Holocaust Remembrance Days' certain people seem to want every nation to have, even those not remotely near the European theatre in Hitler's War. ( And seem especially insensitive in Russia, where the ordinary people have never been massively addicted to jews anyway, and which state lost far more millions just through the rest of the unpleasantness liberally sprinkled around then ). But he may have been replaced by now. He would make Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seem very mild indeed were he to replace him.



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[Johnny]

Perhaps something important was missed in the English to Russian translation?:sombrero:

Oh, I don't think Zhirinovsky has ever flinched from making his views perfectly clear. On any subject on earth. Particularly the moral regeneration of Mother Russia, and the best chap to carry out this awesome work.

Your sarcasm is noted and I share your distaste here (not including your occasional pokes at Jewish people for simply being Jewish people). To be clear however, I mean to say that the words "liberal democrat" do not reveal any significant connection between US Liberal Democrats and this Russian Liberal Democratic Party. They should be viewed as entirely independent political groups.

[Claverhouse]

Your sarcasm is noted and I share your distaste here (not including your occasional pokes at Jewish people for simply being Jewish people).

Not really. I find it difficult to forgive their ancestors for the Bible; but perhaps in America you don't have compulsory bible study in school. As for the present lot, I do feel they have a great compassion for each other and their past sufferings; but this is not translated into an equal compassion for the suffering and sufferings of other groups. Particularly the Palestinians.


To be clear however, I mean to say that the words "liberal democrat" do not reveal any significant connection between US Liberal Democrats and this Russian Liberal Democratic Party. They should be viewed as entirely independent political groups.

Yeah, but one of the main reasons I started the post was to put that headline. Our own Liberal Democratic party is so smugly repellent you wouldn't believe. ( But better than New Labour or the, eeek, Conservatives ).




Claverhouse :ph34r:

[Johnny]

Right, in the States religious studies of any kind is quite difficult to share and teach in public schools...my own alma mater... :lol: