Dubinka of the people's war

Immediately after the completion of the special operation to falsify the presidential election, a person who still holds the president’s post is carefully hinting at the opportunity in the future of release of the political prisoners, convening a constitutional assembly, revising the refusal to register the parties of the authorities and the termination of the authorities of public protests (assignment to understand the validity of refusals in agreement ”). What is this another deceitful maneuver in order to reduce the severity of the first reaction of society to the just inflation or the beginning of a policy of concessions?

What kind of concessions are there, you say. In the evening of the same day in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the mass detention of participants in the protest shares by the immense forces of all the clans of the occupying troops, literally flooding the central units of the two capitals. Only in St. Petersburg on Isaakievskaya Square 480 people were detained - an unprecedented figure for the city! They also detained the deputies of the Legislative Assembly (most of them were immediately released after checking the documents, but the deputy from the Communist Party Irina Komolov was not released). Almost all the police were left for the night in monkeys - in full accordance with the practice that has developed over the past two years (unlike Moscow, where, as a rule, they are released on a sign of a appeal to the court). The departments are crowded. Not without cuffs during detention.

So, comrades, gentlemen and just citizens. Nothing particularly outstanding happened. Well, horror. But not horror, horror, horror, horror !!! The authorities acted according to the usual, long -developed scheme of the suppression of "unauthorized shares." It’s just that the shares turned out to be larger than usual. Therefore, there are more detainees.

The police consider himself the right, without introducing no requirements, to grab and drag anyone who “expresses their attitude to socially significant events” (this is the standard formulation of hundreds of cop reports, protocols on the detention and court decisions) only by the physical presence of their body at the venue for the “unauthorized public event”. The authorities are so interpreted by the law. Not from a good life. If they begin to interpret the law at least a little humanly, they will practically have no opportunity to suppress inconsistent shares. And they are really afraid of this.

The authorities are not afraid of the assault on state institutions, broken windows and set on fire. Our society has long proved its ability to refrain from such forms of protest. They are afraid of the "information effect". They are afraid that, without receiving satisfactory answers to the notifications submitted, they will simply stop asking permission. They are afraid that they will cease to be afraid.

What can contrast this society? To make exactly what the authorities are most afraid of. Stop afraid. Stop the dumb lamentations of the inadmissibility of "substitute people under the batons." Detention, cuffs, monkeys, administrative courts are everyday life of a long and tedious struggle of civil society for their rights. And he will have a chance of success in this struggle only when ordinary citizens learn to relate to this as a routine, albeit unpleasant, to show determination to voluntarily and consciously "substitute for batons."

This is exactly what is happening. Professional polyactivists, for whom constant detentions have long become part of the lifestyle, in St. Petersburg from the strength of a hundred. The rest of the detainees are ordinary citizens who are by no means living "revolutionary activities." There is never so much work for the “Service of Assistance Services”, collecting information and delivering information on monkeys. But she copes with this work. Because new people connected to her. For example, those who were involved in social activity in the process of organizing election observation. This is civil society.

What actually happened? In the course of stubborn battles of local importance, civil society undertook DDOS attacks on autosaks, monkeys and controlled courts. And the attack was quite successful. The number of detainees at an inconsistent rally is the same indicator of the political success of the action as the number of participants in the sanctioned rally.

And the authorities have nothing to oppose to society, except for the routine technology of dispersal of "unauthorized shares". The inadequate bastard of all kinds of special forces is nothing more than intimidation. In any case, the authorities have to expel inconsistent rallies to spend incomparably great efforts than society to conduct them. And carry incomparably large costs. That is why the authorities began to distribute very vague promises of changes. And only from the ability of society to continue systematic pressure on power, combining authorized protests with unauthorized ones, will it depend on whether it will be possible to turn deceitful maneuvers of the regime into the beginning of real concessions.