There are no words

My friend, a journalist, went to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to check how trade actually goes on inside the temple. Interest in this arose after yesterday the court rejected the plaintiff - the Consumers Union - in a claim against the main temple of Moscow, in which claims were made that trade is carried out without proper rules prescribed to everyone who trades in something. The defendant, represented by some legally savvy abbess, stated that this was not trade, but a free distribution of religious objects in exchange for voluntary donations.

So, my friend had his eye on an icon worth 1000 rubles, recommended for donations, and asked him to give it to him for a hundred, since he could no longer donate. He was told: “No, a thousand rubles is the minimum price for recommended donations.” And the icon, naturally, was not sold. And they didn’t give it.

I told this funny story to highlight the unprecedented hypocrisy displayed in this situation. When there are not even words to comment on it. It’s like a thimblemaker in front of you will first tell you how he is cheating, after which he will offer you to play anyway, because this is not cheating, but just “sleight of hand.”

And there is the same hypocrisy in the call of the supreme rulers to citizens - go to court against illegal actions of officials and injustice. It seemed like the right message. But if something was done to ensure that the court was independent and fair.

This is an outright mockery in the case and in the process of the struggle for the release of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev. And in the Pussy Riot case. And in the search procedure at Sobchak’s. And the fact is that Putin learned about this from the media. And in the case of “Novaya Gazeta” against Bastrykin.” And in the fact that Governor Tkachev sincerely does not understand - it is not possible to personally come to everyone’s yard and notify them of a possible disaster.
And so on and so forth. The height of cynicism, the limit of hypocrisy. Oh times, oh morals...

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