Vladimir Putin reveals a lot about how he views his role as the keeper of the people and the role of the people in being kept. In this recent telling exchange, Putin outlines why he has zero tolerance for the people when they dare do something as inocuous as tossing a plastic cup at authority.
‘It Starts With a Cup, Ends With a Shooting’: 3 Putin Quotes on Human Rights – The Moscow Times
Excerpt:
On plastic cup-throwing protesters:
— “So they throw a plastic cup at an authority, and that’s OK. Then a plastic bottle, that’s OK too. Then it’s a glass bottle, [then] a stone and then they start shooting and looting stores. We must prevent that.”
— “There are also so-called arbitrary excesses, which are in fact gross violations of the law by various law enforcement agencies too. Of course, everything needs to be measured and certain boundaries can’t be crossed.”
— “Can you punch a woman in the stomach? Can you beat a policeman? Of course you can’t punch a woman in the stomach. But if someone punches a woman in the stomach, it doesn’t grant someone the right to beat a police officer. These are subtle things.”
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Lest many of you forget, Putin is a former KGB Thumb twister. That authoritarian mindset did not die with the Soviet Union, though Putin is no Marxist, no Leninist, no Communist. He is simply an opportunist, one who imagines, and with some good reason, that he is, in fact, on of the few demigods of the universe.
He fundamentally understands the underlying reality of power between people such as himself, people I call Citadelians, and the plastic cup throwers, the people. Only so long as he keeps that crowd contained, like you would an undisciplined dog in training, can he continue to live out the glory of being the demigod of the earth.
It is better to open fire on a crowded highway than to continue to take fire from a van because, at the end of the day, it’s about shields going home, not people.