Do people think he's a good guy?
Who the fuck cares if the Western Media is going after Putin. What is he, a hero to the workers of the world?
Huh?
boddi
On 12/18/06, Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> (See the original for a photo)
>
> <http://www.exile.ru/2006-December-15/putins_poison.html>
>
> Putin's Poison
>
> Is it just a coincidence that another truth-seeking journalist has
> fallen ill in Vladimir Putin's increasingly-authoritarian Russia? The
> evidence says that it's not a coincidence at all.
>
> This past weekend, eXile editor Yasha Levine embarked on a daring
> investigative-journalism piece to expose the horrors of platzkart, the
> infamous 3rd class Russian train compartments, which his bold piece
> compares to "The horrors of the GULAG."
>
> Apparently, someone in the Kremlin did not want the truth about
> platzkart to get out. On Mr. Levine's ride out to Izhevsk, a
> "friendly" platzkart passenger just happened to offer a piece of his
> vobly, or dried fish. Naturally, Mr. Levine took the fish and ate it,
> because that's what anyone in his situation would do. Within 12 hours,
> Mr. Levine suffered symptoms of food poisoning, including stomach
> cramps and diarrhea. Preliminary reports suggest that the vobly was
> infected with a highly-secret Russian poison called "Gavno-211." But
> despite their evil designs, Mr. Levine could not be silenced, as this
> issue's cover story clearly shows.
>
> How very clever and devious of the Kremlin to take advantage of Mr.
> Levine's Westernized gullibility; how savage to mercilessly poison him
> with a "Gavno-211" isotope, which FSB agents likely injected into an
> irresistibly appetizing vobly, a vobly which no man in his right mind
> could possibly pass up when offered. Mmm, imagine the dried yellowish
> scales, the brittle fins, the hollowed-out eye sockets...imagine it,
> and imagine trying to say, "No thank you, I'm not hungry now."
> Impossible.
>
> It's time now for even the worst Putin apologist to own up to the
> truth: the Kremlin is full of bad people who do bad things. And
> they're not even shy about it. For the "mysterious" food poisoning of
> Mr. Levine comes just as the world is gripped by the suspicious
> poisoning death of Kremlin critic and ex-FSB agent Alexander
> Litvinenko, who accused the Kremlin of poisoning him and others,
> including Ukraine's pro-American president Viktor Yuschenko.
>
> True, there is no concrete evidence yet that the FSB or Mr. Putin is
> behind the poison attacks--but there is plenty of reason for us to
> accuse him nonetheless. That's because when we accuse him, it makes us
> sound like a serious newspaper on a moral crusade. Besides, just
> consider the evidence: Mr. Putin is Russian, and he has shifty Russian
> facial features. He is not very pro-American, which already makes him
> a suspect. Litvinenko, Politkovskaya and Yuschenko are all
> pro-American. And they were all poisoned. Do we really need to provide
> any more evidence than that? Duh! Of course Putin did it.
>
> Besides, many of Putin's critics, especially those who live in America
> or our lapdogs in England, say Putin is guilty. It's not just us
> Americans, you know! Our lapdogs--they're woofing the same thing. It's
> like, who you gonna believe, guys like us, or the guy in the Kremlin
> who probably doesn't even have a DVD set of Arrested Development? I
> mean, what kind of human being is he?!
>
> It is time to face the obvious and unpleasant truth. The Kremlin is
> hatching an evil plot to control and destroy its critics, and this
> plot has now hatched its evil chickenness in our newspaper. Mr. Levine
> set out to write the truth about platzkart, a truth that the Kremlin
> did not want the world to know. By the time he got off the train in
> Izhevsk, he was so ill that he couldn't even go to the local disco to
> meet Izhevsk's dyevushki.
>
> No one is safe. Today, Yasha Levine has diarrhea; tomorrow, you,
> reader, may die in a nuclear inferno. Let's stop this madness before
> it stops us.
>
> --
> Andy
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