Donald Hank
European court imposes immorality on Russia
By Donald Hank
The European court, which has played the part of God to packed houses in continental political theaters for decades, is now trying to assert the same role in Russia, demanding that this sovereign nation yield its sense of moral rectitude to the decadent West's political correctness — and specifically, demanding that Russia allow "gay" parades and even pay a fine for past infractions of "human rights" in refusing to allow such parades.
Meanwhile Russia has always maintained that homosexuality spreads disease, is unnatural and offends the morals of Russians.
While the sheeplike European nations have invariably fallen into line behind the unelected officials of the EU, I somehow can't see Russia bowing to this pressure from the Western know-it-alls. If they do, these snotty elites will have achieved what Napoleon, and later Hitler, were unable to do when they sent their armies into Russia: make her bow to the wishes of an arbitrary and godless foreign Empire.
Many Christians and the politically incorrect are — secretly or openly — hoping Russia stands her ground and refuses to cede her sovereignty to the arrogant European Court. Most probably think the Russians will flout the decision just to flex their muscles and show us who is boss.
That would certainly be one good reason for them to hold their ground. After all, like China, the other non-western super power, Russia has never shown the least bit of sympathy for the nebulous notion of "interdependence" that is the philosophical foundation for global elitism. However, Russian history provides clues to an even more deeply rooted motive.
From the 1860s on, there was a smoldering social revolt gaining ground in Russia as the ideas of the "enlightenment" began trickling in, primarily from France, carried back by young aristocrats who had been to Paris and other European capitals and had been infected with the libertinism reigning among young university students there. The ostensible premises for change were political but were served up on a platter garnished liberally with heady promises of sexual freedom irresistible to young Russians of all social strata.
Thus from about the 1860s, Russia was shepherded into a European style socio-political revolutionary mindset that paved the way for the actual revolution in 1917.
But as with all revolutions, unexpected consequences set in. In retrospect, the revolutionaries should have seen it coming. Older Russians, even those sympathetic to the revolution, always had a disdain for the French and their moral depravity, as evidenced in the works of authors like Tolstoy and Turgenev.
Very shortly after the revolution, this titillating sexual apéritif that had provided a kind of euphorigenic drug, numbing the masses to the otherwise less-palatable realities (the blood baths and internecine warfare that led to the murder of thousands, including the czar and his family), was quickly swept away, supplanted by a rigid totalitarianism intolerant of the young idealists and their romantic notions of free love and Parisian-like communes. Anyone nourishing hopes of restoring the cherished libertinism was crushed. Some went to prison, others were murdered, others simply disappeared.
The fiery young poet Mayakovsky committed suicide. Others did the same as it dawned on them that the paradise they had longed for was turning into a sexually repressed hell, at least by their jaded standards.
Now, in terms of mores and sexual libertinism, Europe is approximately where Russia was then. So which way will Russia go this time, you ask?
It is clear that ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the government was in no way sympathetic to the "gay" culture that had tried to carve inroads into its cities. The Muscovite mayor consistently refused permits for gay parades and when the "grassroots homosexuals" defied the bans, he bashed heads.
If we consider that Russian strong man Putin comes from the old-regime's KGB, it will be no surprise if Russia decides either to ignore this decision by the European Court or even to drop out of the European Convention of Human Rights.
If that should happen, then we can put this Russian intransigence together with China's refusal to upgrade its Renminbi and glimpse a picture of a West crumbling under the weight of its greed, arrogance, lust for power and loss of common sense and Christian values that once gave it moral authority over the rest of the world.
The West that once gained the upper hand over the Evil Empire, is quickly going bankrupt both economically and morally. As things turn out this time, it is not too big to fail either way no matter how many nations get together and bleat in unison.
Because bears aren't afraid of sheep.
© Donald Hank
October 24, 2010
The European court, which has played the part of God to packed houses in continental political theaters for decades, is now trying to assert the same role in Russia, demanding that this sovereign nation yield its sense of moral rectitude to the decadent West's political correctness — and specifically, demanding that Russia allow "gay" parades and even pay a fine for past infractions of "human rights" in refusing to allow such parades.
Meanwhile Russia has always maintained that homosexuality spreads disease, is unnatural and offends the morals of Russians.
While the sheeplike European nations have invariably fallen into line behind the unelected officials of the EU, I somehow can't see Russia bowing to this pressure from the Western know-it-alls. If they do, these snotty elites will have achieved what Napoleon, and later Hitler, were unable to do when they sent their armies into Russia: make her bow to the wishes of an arbitrary and godless foreign Empire.
Many Christians and the politically incorrect are — secretly or openly — hoping Russia stands her ground and refuses to cede her sovereignty to the arrogant European Court. Most probably think the Russians will flout the decision just to flex their muscles and show us who is boss.
That would certainly be one good reason for them to hold their ground. After all, like China, the other non-western super power, Russia has never shown the least bit of sympathy for the nebulous notion of "interdependence" that is the philosophical foundation for global elitism. However, Russian history provides clues to an even more deeply rooted motive.
From the 1860s on, there was a smoldering social revolt gaining ground in Russia as the ideas of the "enlightenment" began trickling in, primarily from France, carried back by young aristocrats who had been to Paris and other European capitals and had been infected with the libertinism reigning among young university students there. The ostensible premises for change were political but were served up on a platter garnished liberally with heady promises of sexual freedom irresistible to young Russians of all social strata.
Thus from about the 1860s, Russia was shepherded into a European style socio-political revolutionary mindset that paved the way for the actual revolution in 1917.
But as with all revolutions, unexpected consequences set in. In retrospect, the revolutionaries should have seen it coming. Older Russians, even those sympathetic to the revolution, always had a disdain for the French and their moral depravity, as evidenced in the works of authors like Tolstoy and Turgenev.
Very shortly after the revolution, this titillating sexual apéritif that had provided a kind of euphorigenic drug, numbing the masses to the otherwise less-palatable realities (the blood baths and internecine warfare that led to the murder of thousands, including the czar and his family), was quickly swept away, supplanted by a rigid totalitarianism intolerant of the young idealists and their romantic notions of free love and Parisian-like communes. Anyone nourishing hopes of restoring the cherished libertinism was crushed. Some went to prison, others were murdered, others simply disappeared.
The fiery young poet Mayakovsky committed suicide. Others did the same as it dawned on them that the paradise they had longed for was turning into a sexually repressed hell, at least by their jaded standards.
Now, in terms of mores and sexual libertinism, Europe is approximately where Russia was then. So which way will Russia go this time, you ask?
It is clear that ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the government was in no way sympathetic to the "gay" culture that had tried to carve inroads into its cities. The Muscovite mayor consistently refused permits for gay parades and when the "grassroots homosexuals" defied the bans, he bashed heads.
If we consider that Russian strong man Putin comes from the old-regime's KGB, it will be no surprise if Russia decides either to ignore this decision by the European Court or even to drop out of the European Convention of Human Rights.
If that should happen, then we can put this Russian intransigence together with China's refusal to upgrade its Renminbi and glimpse a picture of a West crumbling under the weight of its greed, arrogance, lust for power and loss of common sense and Christian values that once gave it moral authority over the rest of the world.
The West that once gained the upper hand over the Evil Empire, is quickly going bankrupt both economically and morally. As things turn out this time, it is not too big to fail either way no matter how many nations get together and bleat in unison.
Because bears aren't afraid of sheep.
© Donald Hank
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