My post in August 2012 re Russia's Pussy Riot....
...needs
an update. These truly heroic young women have now been released from jail in
Russia by the shirtless horseman, Vladimir Putin, and they just appeared on The
Colbert Report (watch all three of these links):
In my
above linked blogpost, I pointed to the eerie, sad parallel between the
imprisonment of the Hunt brothers in 1812, for 2 years, for daring to call the
Prince Regent (i.e., virtually the King) of England the debauched,
degraded, misogynistic pig he was in a newspaper editorial. It's exactly the same scenario,
history repeating itself.
The
Hunts were visited in prison by the best and brightest in the English cultural
world, just as these modern Russian heroines have now received the best
possible public platform to continue their vital work here in the US before
returning to Russia.
And I
am sure that Jane Austen wishes she had lived in a world where she could do
exactly what Colbert did, and make her own sharp satire of "the Prince of Whales"
(see the link in my blog post to the Colleen Sheehan 2007 Persuasions Online article) explicit, and not herself
be thrown into prison. She'd sure be cheering Pussy Riot on!!!
So
make this post go viral, so that everyone learns about what they're doing, and
how brave they are.
A
shirtless monster on a horse with as much power as any human being on the
planet is nobody to mess with lightly, so bravo to them for responding to him
with "Bring it on!", and let's support them in this brave peaceful protest
against male chauvinist, homophobic "parental tyranny"!
Cheers,
ARNIE
@JaneAustenCode
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