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go west young man

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32. Your still kidding yourself Josh.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 06:10 PM
Mar 2014

Last edited Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:03 PM - Edit history (2)

That level of violence didn't come from a 'popular movement". A Popular movement would encompass everybody and be much more peaceful. That level of violence came from the far right who led the protests from the get go back in November. We on the hard left here at DU have been telling you this from the beginning. They were always neo-nazi's, soccer hooligans, street thugs...they gained some traction over time and centrists from the West of Ukraine started to show up to the protests. Of course $50 a day from some unknown sources was good incentive too...right around the time Victoria Nulland was handing out cookies.

Groups of those centrists were then slaughtered by snipers of that very same right wing movement in order to create an excuse to draw the EU and US in. It worked but now Frankensteins Monster can't be put back in the bottle...this killing is obviously an attempt to reel it in...but it dominates the political climate there and probably things will get a lot worse before they get better.

The stunning silence from the Western media on many of these goings ons speaks volumes. The BBC reported that the radical protesters were sniping their own people and not a peep was made in the United States. Once again here is the video evidence. To interested readers: fast forward to the 2:40 mark. The BBC reporter points out the snipers window. Prior to this the sniper had shot close to the BBC reporter.

Ukraines Grassy knoll
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024616147

The hard right sector and their role in all this has also been largely ignored but he mainstream US press. The Nation magazine did cover the issue as did various left leaning sites but the MSM was silent. Why would that be? Because it didn't fit the narrative...that's why. Which shows our complicit role in all this. The crime of omission speaks of the crime itself.

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Uh oh... Hell Hath No Fury Mar 2014 #1
I'd guess just the opposite. Daemonaquila Mar 2014 #9
Very Night of the Long Knives MosheFeingold Mar 2014 #35
Washington Post article OKNancy Mar 2014 #2
Top Ukraine nationalist killed in police operation dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #3
Reuters account and Dmytro Yarosh Catherina Mar 2014 #13
We will take revenge on Arsen Avakov....... dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #14
Worrisome. Video of children being taught to sing "Hang the Russians" Catherina Mar 2014 #15
Right Sector has been growing due to their association with Maidan newthinking Mar 2014 #23
I just posted that in a Yarosh post Catherina Mar 2014 #31
But I thought Duckhunter935 Mar 2014 #4
Remember Ernst Röhm? I wonder how many in Ukraine will believe he was killed by Russians jakeXT Mar 2014 #5
Because Ernst Rohm wasn't a RW thug himself? marble falls Mar 2014 #6
Röhm paved the way for Hitler with his SA mob soundsgreat Mar 2014 #43
Röhm was a right wing thug himself and Hitler got rid of him because he was afraid he might.... marble falls Mar 2014 #44
Night of the Long Knives rdharma Mar 2014 #7
I know, right? Daemonaquila Mar 2014 #8
History repats itself.... fNord Mar 2014 #10
How sad. GeorgeGist Mar 2014 #21
What are you talking about? Sashko Bily wasn't part of the interim government. rdharma Mar 2014 #20
That's how it goes. Igel Mar 2014 #36
Figure it out... JackRiddler Mar 2014 #45
Those are some dramatically different accounts. blackspade Mar 2014 #11
Video Catherina Mar 2014 #12
An additional video to add.. go west young man Mar 2014 #16
Here's another one to add Catherina Mar 2014 #19
Good riddance nyabingi Mar 2014 #17
MINA reports a fight Catherina Mar 2014 #18
Good for the interim government getting this guy. joshcryer Mar 2014 #22
Now they just need to deal with the other Right Sector Deputies and svoboda ministers newthinking Mar 2014 #24
Of course they will. joshcryer Mar 2014 #25
Well if Tim McVey's friends were assistant director of National Security and other executive newthinking Mar 2014 #26
We will see, those positions are temporary. joshcryer Mar 2014 #27
Your still kidding yourself Josh. go west young man Mar 2014 #32
It was peaceful for months! joshcryer Mar 2014 #34
You have that quite wrong Josh.. go west young man Mar 2014 #38
That is revisionist to the core, go west. joshcryer Mar 2014 #39
According to your own post.. go west young man Mar 2014 #40
OK, weeks. Or, if you count the days of protest, 55 days. joshcryer Mar 2014 #41
Man Josh, go west young man Mar 2014 #42
Now they say they only shot at police jakeXT Mar 2014 #49
Of course they won't...... or they would have done it already. nt rdharma Mar 2014 #28
McVey's militia is up in Alaska somewhere. joshcryer Mar 2014 #29
Well, then maybe you start your own thread on that off topic red herring..... nt rdharma Mar 2014 #30
Over 24 hours... joshcryer Mar 2014 #33
Who says it was the interim government? JackRiddler Mar 2014 #46
The article I read this afternoon in Korespondent had a 3rd variant. Igel Mar 2014 #37
So, um, which of these mutually exclusive stories? JackRiddler Mar 2014 #47
One should be able to determine if he was shot in the leg or not, but I couldn't find a good picture jakeXT Mar 2014 #48
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