re: #3 Destro

They got 2 years in Russia and it is for hooliganism not simple trespassing - they entered a religious building.

[Link: www.usatoday.com…]

Which is about what an American teen got for vandalizing a synagogue (9-18 months)

[Link: www.timesleader.com…]

I don’t see in the article what the sentence is in the New York case (and in that case it was trespassing onto a church owned vacant lot I think and not a religious building).

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com…]

A retired Episcopal bishop and a Harlem priest were among seven people convicted Monday (June 18) on charges of trespassing on property owned by one of the Episcopal Church’s wealthiest parishes at the height of the Occupy protests.

Look who’s suddenly concerned for the sanctity of the church!

Get real. “Hooliganism” is an old Soviet-era charge that means ‘they pissed of the government’.

en.wikipedia.org
In the Soviet Union the word khuligan was used to refer to scofflaws or political dissenters, “hooliganism” (rus. Хулига́нство) was listed as a criminal offense and used as a catch-all charge for prosecuting unapproved behavior. Part of the same bag of tricks as labeling dissent a mental illness. Just reciting it as though it was a real charge is meaningless.

They didn’t cause damage, which the teenager above did.

Your willingness to make excuses for the weirdest people just baffles me.

One of the Occupy people got 45 days in jail. The others got community service.

Clearly, a travesty of justice that should leave Pussy Riot thanking their lucky stars they’re not Americans.