Quote Originally Posted by 14Russian View Post
Who cares what Cameron says? Anyway, I think you miss the point and so I'll explain why I find fault in your argument.

"It's not about President Putin?" What does that mean? The Olympics is all about politics, at least who is granted the location. But, this issue is about do you agree or disagree with the Government preventing expression and based on what. About parades: if you allow one, you have to allow them all. In the West, these gay parades get state funding and imho, that is unethical. In some countries, there's loopholes the Government uses and they call it 'tourism' projects or whatever. Russia wants to prevent these ideas from developing but people should say 'Нет' on their own. Why does Government always have to do the thinking for the people? I would be very wary with the Russian government dictating these policies and introducing laws to fight 'propaganda.' I already proved that the TV programming is in contradiction to what the law supposedly is doing. So, what is about? I disagree with Maxim's assertion that this is not for distraction. It's in the news every day and globally. The Russians might not care about the issue but the fact that you have the West attacking Russia about it means people will talk about that. Do you think Putin just woke up one day and decided to implement this law? No one predicted the consequences? I doubt it. He knew this would be one law that the majority would tolerate the prevention of rights since they don't care about that section of society.

I do think the West should stay out of it, though. They are hypocrites as always. They are the first to talk about rights when it's convenient but hypocrisy is a common theme.

People should be allowed to have their opinions, though, without special interest groups trying to control what people think.
That's okay. I always miss the point if it's about politics. And no, I don't care what Cameron, Obama, Merkel, Putin, Hollande, or anybody else says. But somebody did since they posted that article. Well, here's another article. Even Obama says NO to boycotting the Olympics.
President Obama says no to a boycott of 2014 Sochi Olympics - latimes.com

Btw, did anybody thank Russia for making an awesome place for the Winter Olympics? Okay, I will. Thanks Russia!

I disagree about the politics thing. It's the International Olympics Committee that decides who will host the games, NOT the governments. Politicians and gay people should NOT be messing up the Olympics!
And btw, imo, the gay sex parades cause more people to get hurt than the new law does. I would never hit somebody because they were gay. I wouldn't even treat them differently. But some people do and gay parades are the best way for people to see who's gay. Then they attack them.

But it's still RUSSIA'S problem and the only people who should be dealing with it are RUSSIANS. Should Russia have protests and boycotts because nobody will sell me beer? It's my money, right? So why can't I buy beer? They discriminate against me and say I'm too young to buy beer and it's not fair!
But I didn't write a letter to Russia and tell them to protest for me and boycott stuff. Why? Because it's NOT a Russian issue. It's an American issue about American laws.
If everything was an International issue then all the countries would be the same and they are not.

And no. I don't believe that President Putin is using that law to attack gay people. If that was the reason then he would have made it illegal to even be gay. But he didn't. So I think he wrote the law to protect them. If they aren't marching down the street with flags and talking about being gay, then mostly there wouldn't be that much violence.
Btw, the West is NOT right. If the West was right then it wouldn't have huge crime rates, tons of violence, tons of murders, and tons of riots. And the politicians wouldn't have to lie to all the other countries about almost everything.
Imo, America and the EU are total disasters! So why would any other country even listen to the advice of a total disaster?

Anyway, the Russian people are NOT Americans or Europeans. They are Russians. That deserves a lot of respect. And friendship is all about respect.
I respect Russians so I trust them to solve their own issues. They are doing that now.

Oh, and btw, I cancelled my plans to march down the street with 2 hot girls half naked. LOL! I really didn't think anybody would be very interested or boycott the olympics if we just played video games in the den.
I don't have time for that anyway because I'm still working on my map of the 83 districts of Russia, grammar, and waiting for mom to get back home from shopping so I can put stuff away. Hurry up Saturday night!