Take a look at this guy.
This is the kind of persistence and determination in pursuing a goal that people should learn from. And his goal is to make us buy him an Audi A8 for $148,000 (about 4.46 million rubles). This is the very same chairman of the Kaluga Regional Court, Dmitry Anatolyevich Krasnov whom I wrote about before. They announced the car purchase, and then, after my post and a complaint from RosPil (Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption project), they got scared and canceled the order.
For that, they earned our grudging praise. As it turned out, for nothing. The initial scare passed, the man called Moscow, and they explained it to him there: - Dmitry Anatolyevich, why are you worrying and paying attention? Sure, they write things on the internet, they shout. They collect some signatures. But, Anatolyevich, you must remember the main thing: they are serfs, and we are the authorities and the patricians. The serfs’ job is to buy us expensive cars, and our job is to drive proudly past the serfs in those cars so they remember their servile place. If you start canceling car purchases out of fear and for the sake of appearances, then we’ll have to do the same. Keep a straight face, and let them know their place. Dmitry Anatolyevich thought: *That’s right! They are serfs. Rabble. And I am a statesman, and I deserve whatever chariot I want. Let them buy it. * And he posted a new order for the purchase of a car for
The story of Judge Krasnov is very instructive. They really do see themselves as patricians, and us as serfs who are supposed to provide them with their luxurious lives. That is clear enough, and there is nothing new in that idea. The question is: how many of us see ourselves as serfs? And are gladly—or simply silently—prepared to perform that servile function? We have already collected more than two-thirds of the votes needed for the State Duma to consider a bill banning these patricians from buying, with our money, cars costing more than 1.5 million rubles. We still need another 33,000 votes. It is strange that we still have not reached that number, considering that each post is read by 150,000 to 200,000 people. Boys and girls, do you really think of yourselves as serfs too? Do you really agree with the idea that you are obliged to buy him a car more expensive than the car of any minister in any European country? It seems to me that each of us should take at least a symbolic step to show that we do not see ourselves as serfs, and to state publicly that we do not want to pay for the bizarre luxury of this whole crowd of bureaucratic riffraff. Supporting our bill is an excellent way to take that step. If only for your own sake. Look at what is happening to Vadim Korovin right now. The man is behind bars simply because he did not immediately give way to one of these patricians in a Mercedes. Watch the dashcam video, which only surfaced today:
http://youtu.be/P7EF1imA3ps A serf reminds the brazen patrician: The workday is over. Enough with the flashing blue light. For that, immediately after this episode, Korovin was stopped by the police, they fabricated some nonsense about him hitting an inspector who had a bruise on his leg, and arrested him. And now they have also ordered the Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department (OBEP) to inspect and wreck Korovin’s business. Just to make sure the serfs do not get any ideas. That is exactly how the system works. First we are supposed to buy them 5-million-ruble cars, and then dive onto the shoulder when those cars appear so some government snout can get to his dacha (country house) faster. If you do not want to be a serf, then do not behave like one. One very small but important step out of serfdom can be taken right now. Register on Gosuslugi (the Russian government services portal) (here, someone even wrote instructions for the laziest among you) and vote for our bill. Spread the word about this site: http://navalny.ru/roi/ If right now, at this very second, you thought, "ugh, can’t be bothered," or "maybe later, I don’t have time right now," then Dmitry Anatolyevich Krasnov won at that very same second. He is persistent, unlike you. You will pay for his Audi A8 out of your own pocket—4.8 million rubles—and as he drives past you he will smirk and think: after all, it is only right that these serfs serve us patricians. PS Groups supporting the bill: FB https://www.facebook.com/NavalnyROI VK http://vk.com/navalnyroi