The right to lie

Oleg Kozlovsky was taken from one police station to another so that his friends could not meet the man after a 13-day hunger strike. In fact, this can be described as petty meanness of the authorities. Do you disagree with us? Well, there is no law for you, there is no regulated procedure for you, there is no court for you where both sides are heard and taken into account, there is nothing for you except what the guy in uniform decides to do to you. And he himself is brainwashed to the point of “don’t play around.”

From the position of an adequate person, it is impossible to keep one and the same person in two places at the same time. And yet, no one cares about this, so to speak, even though they are asking for a stronger verb.

From the position of an adequate person, the head of the information and public relations department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, police colonel Viktor Biryukov, who promised Denis Bilunov not to detain anyone if people began to disperse, should have kept his promise. Biryukov’s point of honor in this case is that no one is actually detained.

But there is a problem with honor, because sometimes they detained only on the way to the site of the “March of Dissent” and not only “dissent,” but also journalists and random people. After all, there were no signs posted at the entrances of houses saying “no exit, a cleansing of “dissenters” is underway.” As far as I know, those who simply went out to buy beer were also targeted. This is after Mr. Biryukov’s promise - well, how can you not delay it? Moreover, they should be detained with special cynicism and soldered to the maximum. Because, I repeat, an unafraid generation has grown up. And if there is no nuclear alarm, then you have the right to go out for beer or not for beer, and just walk along your own street. And when you are detained without any legal grounds, then next time some will come out on purpose - as a sign of protest. So they are vaccinated against a sense of inner freedom by “circumcision so that nothing else will grow.”

And life is made as difficult as possible for the detainees. And to their loved ones - just in case. And they lie. They lie without a twinge of conscience, oh, what am I talking about, really. Anyone who gives false testimony in court can be punished by law. But for representatives of the law there is no law, there is only mutual responsibility. There are non-existent witnesses, there are judges who point blank do not see the evidence of the defense. I wonder if it was not Dmitry Anatolyevich who addressed them, not yet being president, with a call to comply with the laws? If he really does, then I have the deepest sympathy for him. Moreover, I somehow sympathize with Mr. Biryukov, who, perhaps, was simply used. Or did he make promises on his own initiative? It’s probably not very pleasant to lie to your interlocutor’s face, knowing for sure that he will meet you halfway. Or am I wrong and that's nice? Or, simply lying, these special law enforcement citizens are delighted.

As I understand it, the reason for Biryukov’s appeal to Bilunov with a request to disperse the people and a promise not to detain anyone was due to the fact that on the eve of the inauguration there was still no indication of how things would turn out further. No one, from the smallest to the greatest authorities, knew what if tomorrow easing would begin, and the police would also be charged with protecting “dissenters”? But here the long-standing habit of provocation came into play. They couldn't stand it and took several dozen. And the mechanism is designed in such a way that once you take it, you can no longer apologize and let go. We have to sew the work. And having sewed up the case, I don’t want to communicate with either his like-minded people or journalists with cameras and video cameras when the detainee leaves (someday he will get out). And again I have to lie. And they lie so much that it no longer surprises anyone, and no one pays attention to it. And you and I live in a world where any sovereign can easily lie to our face.

And let’s assume for a second that they have evidence of some kind of guilt of Kozlovsky himself. The court will decide how strong this evidence is. I believe that the decisions of all courts, except the European one, will be the same. As I understand it, insubordination to the police, which led to detention, and the violation of human rights in the process of this detention are two different things. And if the European Court of Human Rights recognizes that Kozlovsky’s rights were violated, then it means that they were violated. And don’t sing me long-winded oratorios that the European Court is simply asleep and sees how it can bring down great Russia by recognizing yet another violation of the rights of its citizen. Russia, by the way, signed the Declaration of Human Rights. And, therefore, accepts the right to judge her in the appropriate court.

So Kozlovsky, it seems to me, will go to the end, regaining his human rights - and his opponent in the final proceedings will be Her Majesty the Russian Federation. According to the procedure, if a person's rights are violated, then compensation is paid to him by the country in which these rights were violated. That is, there will be a government for the Russian Federation. And who and where will Kozlovsky’s relatives, who were twitching and fraying their nerves, make claims, trying to find out which police department Oleg will come from? And what did they do wrong before the Russian Federation? And what kind of sergeant-lieutenant-captain should they sue for providing knowingly false information to taxpayers?

There is no point in punishing ordinary employees of one or another police department. Now we should punish those who gave the right to ordinary and not so ordinary employees to beat, mock and violate human rights... Can you imagine a picture of how the president summons the Minister of Internal Affairs who has remained in his post and tells him: “Another lie from your department , and we will have another minister? I'm not really. There is no other way to fight lawlessness today. And it turns out that every police officer, starting with those who sent Kozlovsky’s relatives to various Moscow addresses, and ending with Biryukov, is lying. Not on its own, but on behalf of the state. So how can we trust this state?

True, as it turned out, Dmitry Anatolyevich supported me even before his popular election. During the presidential election campaign at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum in February, he powerfully, in a presidential manner, spoke about the need to return the faith of Russian citizens to the courts, about the independence of the judiciary, and about ending arbitrariness. There was one wonderful phrase in his speech: “Officials and police officers, judges and prosecutors, entrepreneurs, all of us need to start with ourselves.”

I don’t really understand how exactly EVERYONE who has been offended by justice in recent years, including Kozlovsky and Trepashkin, Khodorkovsky and Kasparov, Murtazalieva and Samodurov, Bakhmina, Lebedev, Aleksanyan and many, many others, should start with themselves. And I don’t understand at all what kind of trouble judges, prosecutors, and officials will start with. The order, you know, is not clearly formulated.

No one will ever start with themselves, because starting with themselves, Mr. President, means reconsidering the YUKOS case and reinvestigating the Beslan tragedy. I'm afraid this is weak for you. And to begin a turn towards legality with the words “it was all before me, I don’t know anything” means giving a signal that the movements are ritual and sit, citizens, judges, officials, prosecutors and police officers, on your butt and don’t worry, no one will will not touch. And we already heard about the rule of law from your predecessor at the beginning of his career.