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Communists want “pot-singer” Sting to perform in jail
Published: 16 September, 2010, 11:51
Edited: 17 September, 2010, 11:07
TAGS: Celebrity, Music, Russia, Thrills&Spills, Drugs
St. Petersburg’s communists, who are famous for their eyebrow-raising ridiculous statements, are calling on Russian drug police to have British singer Sting arrested for promoting marijuana.
The reason for prosecuting the world-famous performer, who just had two concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow, are his calls for the legalization of recreational drugs. Promotion of drugs consumption is an offense in Russia, punishable by a fine.
However, the organization of communists of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has called for a jail term for the Briton.
“Sting uses his talent to promote marijuana. He may do this on an order from drug mafia or following his own vicious addiction. It doesn’t matter! He must be stopped as soon as possible,” they said in a statement on their website.
The communists also accuse the city’s authorities of turning a blind eye to Sting’s alleged wrongdoing due to his celebrity status.
“If someone argues in his favour that that he sings well, then he can sing as well in jail, in an amateur band. Our children’s health is a thousand times more important than the songs of a rotten Englishman,” they say.
The Organization of Communists of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region or KPLO is not a political party and has no relation to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation – the most popular leftist party in Russia and the successor to the CPSU.
Earlier the communist organization, the participants of which have taken a habit to making hilarious statements to draw public attention, criticized Madonna during her tour in Russia for using revealing clothes during performances and not singing revolutionary songs.
They also accused Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko for starring in the latest James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” – because the fictional British secret agent “killed hundreds of Soviet people, Cubans, Vietnamese, Koreans, Chinese and Nicaraguans.”
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We can either ask the Tooth Fairy to stop people taking drugs or we can decide to regulate them properly. Because Drug cartels will always have an endless supply of ready cash for wages, bribery and equipment, no amount of tax money, police powers, weaponry, wishful thinking or pseudo-science will make our streets safe again. Only an end to prohibition can do that! How much longer are we willing to foolishly risk our own survival by continuing to ignore the obvious, historically confirmed solution? If you support prohibition then you've helped trigger the worst crime wave in history. If you support prohibition you've helped create the prison-for-profit synergy with drug lords. If you support prohibition you've helped remove many important civil liberties from those citizens you falsely claim to represent. If you support prohibition you've helped put previously unknown and contaminated drugs on the streets. If you support prohibition you've helped to escalate Theft, Muggings and Burglaries. If you support prohibition you've helped to divert scarce law-enforcement resources away from protecting your fellow citizens from the ever escalating violence against their person or property. If you support prohibition you've helped overcrowd the courts and prisons, thus making it increasingly impossible to curtail the people who are hurting and terrorizing others. If you support prohibition you've helped evolve local gangs into transnational enterprises with intricate power structures that reach into every corner of society, controlling vast swaths of territory with significant social and military resources at their disposal.
Sting is a very pretentious person and without his drugs wouldn't perform anything well - I say that most logical sane Youth would not follow just on his own say-so - they will see right through him. Even he doesn't understand that - he lives most of the time up his own back-side. Paul McCartney takes the credit for introducing British Youth to Pot - so, they'd need to ban him too. British teenagers are a real mess now - on their singular advices on A.D. vices - POT has proved to be their downfall - with devastating effect. It is interesting that certain pop-stars seem to want to impact Russia now - the ages of their fan base followings is very young - and immature, actually - especially for Madonna - and her vanity doesn't care for that -so, presumably she is hoping to better that real performance with a Russian focus. I doubt if Russians are yet as fickle as either Sting or Madonna would have them be...