Cebu_4_2
28th March 2014, 11:54 AM
This is What It Looks Like When the State Just Doesn’t Care About Your Rights Anymore
15,761 Shares By Kyle Becker 22 hours ago
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/c8545ef90e0675f35ee6e17e0be68140-770x330.jpg
When the government doesn’t care what you have to say anymore, when it’s through looting your country for everything that people have got, when your fellow human beings are in the throes of desperation, and when the friends and families in the community you’ve grown up with are rioting in the strees – that’s when you get haunting photos like this one.
A Ukrainian man horrified by the atrocities wrought by his own government was walking down a sidewalk in Kiev with his very own son, glaring at a state police officer whose callous disdain could not be more crystal clear.
Still, there is a hint of regret in the police officer’s eyes, like he himself cannot believe how his country got to this point.
This is the Ukraine. It could be anywhere. Anywhere where the state seizes control of a population, and the corruption and the oppression follow like nightfall. The following photos are just as haunting:
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_236.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_236.jpg) The man, Professor of the National Academy of Sciences Mikhail Kuznetsov, and his son were not the only ones to face the iron-fisted government during their protests for popular sovereignty and freedom.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_235.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_235.jpg) A freelance photographer at Reuters name Vlad Sodel (http://sodel.kiev.ua/) took these photos, which were republished on Reddit, Twitter and the Daily Dot (http://www.dailydot.com/news/iconic-kiev-photo-2-men/).
The image became the face of a popular protest poster.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_237.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_237.jpg) As Russia stands poised on the outskirts of the brave but oppressed nation that expelled its ruthless dictator, let’s not forget what happened to this man and his son on Bloody Tuesday in the Ukraine. Remember that this is not about Ukraine, this is about freedom for all humanity.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_239.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_239.jpg) These images remind us that our freedom’s price was paid for in blood. But the state never sleeps, and politicians always scheme to expand their power. Ever-vigilant the defenders of liberty must be, so as to prevent their fight against tyranny from devolving: from a war of words into bloody protests on the nation’s streets.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_245.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_245.jpg)
When will those who love freedom take their stand? When the protests are in far-off lands and the state afflicts only faceless people who are so easy to ignore, that is when many of us sleep.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_243.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_243.jpg) But that is precisely the time when all should take heed and stand up for what we believe is right. The state should always get the message loud and clear that we stand for our liberty, we stand for our rights, and we will not be intimidated or silenced.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_2441.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_2441.jpg) For people like the Ukrainian man and his son, and numerous other protesters for freedom around the world, state oppression is all too real; the cold iron fist of the state is in-your-face. But for the American people, it is as if they are in a dream; many recognize the danger, but the government’s disregard for the will of the people has not yet manifested itself in outright force.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_242.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_242.jpg) There has not been a flashpoint. Yet. But it’s only a matter of time when the U.S. government has pursued illegitimacy by lying to the American people, breaking its own laws, and showing reckless disregard for the citizen’s finances and personal rights.
The Ukrainians were able to remove their tormenter by force, but in the United States, we have worked hard to preserve a lawful government that not only holds relatively free and fair elections, but respects the laws in between them.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_238.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_238.jpg)
At heart, the state is a cold and callous thing; its disregard for people’s rights grows in the presence of our ignorance and apathy, but its deceitfulness and powerlust is as apparent as the cold look on this Ukrainian police officer’s face.
When will we ourselves be fighting for our freedom, when it’s not some Ukrainian protester whose face is bloodied, but a friend, a neighbor, a son, or even ourselves?
The American people should take peaceful action to prevent this kind of bloody oppression from happening here and not just during election-time.
15,761 Shares By Kyle Becker 22 hours ago
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/c8545ef90e0675f35ee6e17e0be68140-770x330.jpg
When the government doesn’t care what you have to say anymore, when it’s through looting your country for everything that people have got, when your fellow human beings are in the throes of desperation, and when the friends and families in the community you’ve grown up with are rioting in the strees – that’s when you get haunting photos like this one.
A Ukrainian man horrified by the atrocities wrought by his own government was walking down a sidewalk in Kiev with his very own son, glaring at a state police officer whose callous disdain could not be more crystal clear.
Still, there is a hint of regret in the police officer’s eyes, like he himself cannot believe how his country got to this point.
This is the Ukraine. It could be anywhere. Anywhere where the state seizes control of a population, and the corruption and the oppression follow like nightfall. The following photos are just as haunting:
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_236.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_236.jpg) The man, Professor of the National Academy of Sciences Mikhail Kuznetsov, and his son were not the only ones to face the iron-fisted government during their protests for popular sovereignty and freedom.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_235.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_235.jpg) A freelance photographer at Reuters name Vlad Sodel (http://sodel.kiev.ua/) took these photos, which were republished on Reddit, Twitter and the Daily Dot (http://www.dailydot.com/news/iconic-kiev-photo-2-men/).
The image became the face of a popular protest poster.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_237.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_237.jpg) As Russia stands poised on the outskirts of the brave but oppressed nation that expelled its ruthless dictator, let’s not forget what happened to this man and his son on Bloody Tuesday in the Ukraine. Remember that this is not about Ukraine, this is about freedom for all humanity.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_239.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_239.jpg) These images remind us that our freedom’s price was paid for in blood. But the state never sleeps, and politicians always scheme to expand their power. Ever-vigilant the defenders of liberty must be, so as to prevent their fight against tyranny from devolving: from a war of words into bloody protests on the nation’s streets.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_245.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_245.jpg)
When will those who love freedom take their stand? When the protests are in far-off lands and the state afflicts only faceless people who are so easy to ignore, that is when many of us sleep.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_243.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_243.jpg) But that is precisely the time when all should take heed and stand up for what we believe is right. The state should always get the message loud and clear that we stand for our liberty, we stand for our rights, and we will not be intimidated or silenced.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_2441.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_2441.jpg) For people like the Ukrainian man and his son, and numerous other protesters for freedom around the world, state oppression is all too real; the cold iron fist of the state is in-your-face. But for the American people, it is as if they are in a dream; many recognize the danger, but the government’s disregard for the will of the people has not yet manifested itself in outright force.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_242.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_242.jpg) There has not been a flashpoint. Yet. But it’s only a matter of time when the U.S. government has pursued illegitimacy by lying to the American people, breaking its own laws, and showing reckless disregard for the citizen’s finances and personal rights.
The Ukrainians were able to remove their tormenter by force, but in the United States, we have worked hard to preserve a lawful government that not only holds relatively free and fair elections, but respects the laws in between them.
http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_238.jpg (http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture_238.jpg)
At heart, the state is a cold and callous thing; its disregard for people’s rights grows in the presence of our ignorance and apathy, but its deceitfulness and powerlust is as apparent as the cold look on this Ukrainian police officer’s face.
When will we ourselves be fighting for our freedom, when it’s not some Ukrainian protester whose face is bloodied, but a friend, a neighbor, a son, or even ourselves?
The American people should take peaceful action to prevent this kind of bloody oppression from happening here and not just during election-time.