This is one time our elected leaders should pay attention to the advice of Vladimir Putin….
how scary is that?
On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia:
“In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that’s the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell ‘discrimination’. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians.
The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a five minute standing ovation.
If you keep this to yourself, you are part of the problem!
It is a sad day when a Communist* makes more sense than our President, but here it is!!!!
* You mean another Communist
I fell asleep on the couch, reading.
Then I woke up to read this.
I think.
Sicking when our enemy makes more sense that our “leadership.”
Putin is not the only leader who feels this way over there; Russia is not the only country to enforce such an attitude.
I just returned from 2 1/2 weeks in Russia, Estonia, and the Scandanavian countries. The prevailing opinion in all of them was very similar. They welcomed people to come to their country, but if you chose to do so, you were making the choice to live under their laws, to learn their language, to become one of them.
If you didn’t want to do that, you weren’t welcome.
I grew up at the end of the cold war, joined the Army when the USSR was still our mortal enemy. What I mean to say is people like Putin were my mortal enemy I hated them they hated me sooner or later we would have a war (WWIII) I would be on the front lines probably dead in a matter of minutes on the eastern front in Germany but that’s what I grew up knowing what would happen. Now as scarry as this is to say or type Putin would make a better president of the U.S.A. than our currant president.
I think, once upon a time, it was like that in the United States.
Then we let the liberals in……
Ed- Yeah, scary…
WSF- Isn’t it…
Pedi- What we SHOULD be doing!
Joe- Can’t disagree…
drjim- True dat!!! Dammit
While I agree with the statement 100%, a little checking indicates that ol’ Vlad never said that…
Putin makes sense.
While Obama babbles.
Talk about through the looking glass