Thoughts on Pussy Riot

Some years ago I too had a band and it so happens that I also thought about a thing not very different from what Pussy Riot did although in my case I also wanted to have marijuana instead of incense and some rather provoking nuns dancing around. This may come as a shock to most of my readers, I know, but the idea is that I never went through with the plan, something stopped me and I am glad it did. Why Pussy Riot went on to defile sacred ground is the question. First of all you want to do such a thing mostly because you are a teenage moron that thinks the world is his/her and nothing is sacred, you can also be motivated by a need to promote yourself.

I watched various respected artists trying to be on their side, an attitude which attracted a popular reaction from some of their fans and other people who want to promote themselves on behalf of the two years jail term of the three Russian "teenage rebels". I also want to mention that all these so-called artists which think it's normal to go and mock God (or Putin in the "house of God") have discredited themselves in the face of their religious fans and their atheist fans alike. I'm weird enough to admire their imagination yet we must condemn such acts because the only reason those three girls walked into a church and shouted (sung) anti-Putin phrases (songs?) was because by doing so they would end up on the front page of the newspaper. Well, they became famous, that's for sure... yet nothing in life comes for free and now it's time to pay.

However I would of supported a different kind of protest, like storming into the Israeli Embassy and demanding they stop the ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Now that takes guts because you won't see all those "artists" jumping in and being on your side then, nope, most probably you can end up as a terrorist suspect in Guantanamo for the end of your, soon to be, short life. 

In conclusion, my advice is to keep things in perspective, the three Pussy Riot members deserve some time to cool off in a Moscow cell, however the world will not stop here and we should try to create a united front (like that in favor of Pussy Riot) on more important issues.

PS. Now that I think about it... what stopped me from doing a similar mistake was my brain and a good dose of proper education.