Rex Murphy, Pussy Riot’s Latest Media Cheerleader

The recent National Post article by Rex Murphy is really light on facts and leads me to believe communism is out in Russia and perhaps is planting it’s tentacles in our western media. To compare the sexual anarchists who comprise Pussy Riot to the brave man who stood down a tank in Tianamin Square is really offensive, not the least to the real martyr, who suffered for real freedom in China, not the ones who were spreading hate and sexual anarchy on someone else’s (the Orthodox Church’s) private property.

Given that Rex Murphy has chosen to jump on the Pussy Riot bandwagon, I am sure he is aware of some facts that he has neglected to share with his readers. These women did not stage a peaceful protest on a city street, they stormed a church alter shouting blasphemies and were singing sexually vulgar lyrics. Doing this in Canada actually could bring about a criminal conviction. Unfortunately Rex probably is right, storming church alters and swearing in the middle of a service might not get much of a sentence, as Canadian courts may think such a violation of believer’s rights is no big deal nowadays. However, I would like to remind Rex in addition to freedom of speech there is another freedom that should be protected and that is freedom of worship, a freedom these girls clearly trampled on for the dozens who were in the Moscow church that day to listen to their priest, not the anti-Christian punk rock group who wanted to swear and blaspheme. Had the girls chosen to blaspheme on the sidewalk outside the church and sing their sexually lewd lyrics, they probably would have been ridiculed but not arrested in Putin’s Russia. Anti-Putin protests have certainly happened in Russia with thousands in attendance and with no arrests, but our media seems to neglect to consider this when championing Pussy Riot.

Our media is aware, but they seem not to be reporting on it much these days, these girls also got a two year sentence because they are not first time offenders. Some of the stunts they have pulled off are burning a police car, French kissing on duty police officers in the Moscow Subway, and engaging in public sexual intercourse in supermarkets. The fact our media is championing the cause of this sort of trash, and are ignoring two peaceful pro-life women (Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner) who have been in prison in Canada for longer than the Pussy Riot girls speaks to the Marxist depravity prevalent in our media.

Mary Wagner and Linda Gibbons have never copulated in a supermarket, nor have they torched a cop car, nor have they ever denied socialists the right to their freedom of belief by storming an NDP convention, jumping on a stage and blaspheming Jack Layton while singing Bible verses. If Linda and Mary did the above and went to jail, I would have no problem with their incarceration and I would not call Canada a sick democracy. What Linda and Mary did is more akin to what Rex Murphy would have you believe Pussy Riot is all about. These two girls have violated an injunction imposed by the NDP in the 1990s in Ontario, prohibiting all peaceful protest around abortion clinics. These girls stand on public sidewalks with signs condemning abortion and the police show up and arrest them. These Canadian girls are never accused of violence or disrespect. Their actions typically net them sentences in the one to two year range. To date Linda has been in prison for more than a decade.

For the media to champion Pussy Riot, sanitize Pussy Riot in order to garner sympathy the punk rock group does not deserve, and ignore these to pro-life Canadian girls languishing in jail for real peaceful protest tells me the communists and tyrants are no longer in the Kremlin, they are spreading their poison and deception here in the west and their cheerleaders seem to be infesting the western media.

Bill Whatcott