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Meanwhile in Minsk: One-armed man is arrested for clapping


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GPFontaine
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PostPosted: Jul 09 2011 09:26 am Reply with quote Back to top

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Konstantin Kaplin, an unemployed man from the western town of Grodno, says he was convicted this week of applauding in public and fined the equivalent of $200, despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence: He is officially registered as a disabled person and has only one arm.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43690734/ns/world_news-christian_science_monitor/

Lukashenko never ceases to amaze me. There are a lot of things that you can accuse a person of... and when you are a dictator... oh sorry, President... you can make most of those things stick no matter what. However, you can't just make people grow limbs... though I guess you can get the police and judges to pretend that they exist.



 
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HardcoreGamer4Ever
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PostPosted: Jul 09 2011 09:52 am Reply with quote Back to top

No... just no. What is wrong with people?


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Mr. Spidersquid
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PostPosted: Jul 09 2011 11:12 am Reply with quote Back to top

"There he is officer, that's the man."

"You mean behind the disabled person?"


Zim: "I put the fires out!"
Tallest: "You made them worse!"
Zim: "Worse or better?"
 
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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PostPosted: Jul 09 2011 01:17 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I'm surprised The Flaming Schnitzel didn't get to posting this first.

I told a friend about this and the friend assumed the guy was clapping against his torso. But then you read about a deaf mute trying to shout against the government and it frames a clearer picture.


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bassguy252
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PostPosted: Jul 09 2011 03:32 pm Reply with quote Back to top

cant trust those one armed men, just ask "The fugitive" after that movie I always hold one armed men under doubt and suspician...


Let's assume it's a mixture of the two!


 
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Greg the White
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PostPosted: Jul 09 2011 05:50 pm Reply with quote Back to top

That's nothing. Last week in China, a tree was arrested for a noise disturbance when nobody was around to hear it fall.


So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind.
 
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Adrock4
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PostPosted: Jul 09 2011 07:17 pm Reply with quote Back to top

No, that wasn't the problem, actually.


The tree had an anti-Communist blog.


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Blackout
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PostPosted: Jul 09 2011 08:36 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Why the hell is applauding in public illegal? Who exactly are the victims?



 
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UsaSatsui
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PostPosted: Jul 09 2011 09:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Blackout wrote:
Why the hell is applauding in public illegal? Who exactly are the victims?

Read the article - demonstrators are using clapping as a way of saying "Eff you" to the dictator who runs the country.
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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
Joined: May 10 2011
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PostPosted: Jul 10 2011 12:33 am Reply with quote Back to top

lordsathien wrote:
I'm surprised The Flaming Schnitzel didn't get to posting this first.

Sath, I've been gone out of town since Wednesday or else I would have.

Having said this....I love my "hometown" of Minsk, Belarus. Laughing


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GPFontaine
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PostPosted: Jul 10 2011 08:40 am Reply with quote Back to top

The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
lordsathien wrote:
I'm surprised The Flaming Schnitzel didn't get to posting this first.

Sath, I've been gone out of town since Wednesday or else I would have.

Having said this....I love my "hometown" of Minsk, Belarus. Laughing

Hmm... hard to tell if she is saying she loves it because it is true, or because the government might come and take her away for saying otherwise...

How many arms do you have?



 
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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
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PostPosted: Jul 10 2011 05:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

GPFontaine wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
lordsathien wrote:
I'm surprised The Flaming Schnitzel didn't get to posting this first.

Sath, I've been gone out of town since Wednesday or else I would have.

Having said this....I love my "hometown" of Minsk, Belarus. Laughing

Hmm... hard to tell if she is saying she loves it because it is true, or because the government might come and take her away for saying otherwise...

How many arms do you have?

All Belarussians are happy and good people. We are perfect in everyway, thanks to our wonderful and loving President! Very Happy


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Greg the White
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PostPosted: Jul 10 2011 08:29 pm Reply with quote Back to top

It's so easy to joke about this some times, because it's so ridiculous, but then I realize how fucked up it is, because it's actually an enforced law that results in arrests.


So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind.
 
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GPFontaine
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PostPosted: Jul 10 2011 11:53 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
GPFontaine wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
lordsathien wrote:
I'm surprised The Flaming Schnitzel didn't get to posting this first.

Sath, I've been gone out of town since Wednesday or else I would have.

Having said this....I love my "hometown" of Minsk, Belarus. Laughing

Hmm... hard to tell if she is saying she loves it because it is true, or because the government might come and take her away for saying otherwise...

How many arms do you have?

All Belarussians are happy and good people. We are perfect in everyway, thanks to our wonderful and loving President! Very Happy

Its a damn shame that my ancestors were persecuted and driven away nearly 100 years ago.



 
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The Opponent
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PostPosted: Jul 11 2011 10:19 am Reply with quote Back to top

Greg the White wrote:
It's so easy to joke about this some times, because it's so ridiculous, but then I realize how fucked up it is, because it's actually an enforced law that results in arrests.

That just makes it even funnier to me.


I'm not a bad enough dude, but I am an edgy little shit. I'll do what I can.
 
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Rydog
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PostPosted: Jul 11 2011 02:05 pm Reply with quote Back to top


You don't need to hands to clap.
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PostPosted: Jul 11 2011 02:49 pm Reply with quote Back to top

god, i fucking hate those things


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Natsu
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PostPosted: Jul 11 2011 04:33 pm Reply with quote Back to top

It's probably illegal to sell those there. As flaming says, they have a "loving president".
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Methid Man
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PostPosted: Jul 12 2011 12:08 am Reply with quote Back to top

Now we all know the sound of one hand clapping.
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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
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PostPosted: Jul 12 2011 12:21 am Reply with quote Back to top



What a wise woman! She speaks for all Belarussians.


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Lady_Satine
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PostPosted: Jul 12 2011 12:38 am Reply with quote Back to top



"Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!"
 
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The Flaming Schnitzel
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PostPosted: Jul 12 2011 01:00 am Reply with quote Back to top

lordsathien wrote:

Aw...that part isn't as good as the second part....you don't get the whole "LET"S GET MARRIED" thing....


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Lady_Satine
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PostPosted: Jul 12 2011 01:01 am Reply with quote Back to top

The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
lordsathien wrote:

Aw...that part isn't as good as the second part....you don't get the whole "LET"S GET MARRIED" thing....

It was the first that came up on a search.


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