Leopard change his spots

“Of course, efforts are in vain,
And nothing can be drilled into them.
Objects are meaningless to them,
And white is just black"

Yuliy Kim "Lawyer's Waltz"

Leopard change his spots.

As you know, more than two weeks ago, the Chairman of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (also Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation), Mikhail Aleksandrovich Fedotov, was included in the sanctions list of the US Treasury Department.

This event caused genuine indignation and resentment of the self-proclaimed president of the country, who shared his feelings at a meeting with his confidants: “My adviser, who heads the human rights council, was included in the list, which means that all human rights activists were included there along with him?”

It is absolutely impossible for a person with a clear mind and sober memory to agree that Mr. Fedotov M.A. represents all human rights activists in the country, but for the president of the country, who has long lost touch with reality, this is quite forgivable.

Less explainable is the assessment of this fact by the Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group and member of the Council headed by M.A. Fedotov, Alekseeva Lyudmila Mikhailovna: “I am at a loss about the inclusion of Mikhail Alexandrovich in this list because he is not an oligarch, he is an adviser on the development of civil society and rights person. It has nothing to do with wealth or power. He very conscientiously and selflessly fulfills his duties as chairman of the human rights council, and you have to be completely ignorant of matters to include him in the list of people close to power and involved in some kind of aggressive actions.”

For me, a person with 20 years of human rights experience, the inclusion of Mr. M.A. Fedotov is completely natural and logical. on an extremely unpleasant list for the following reasons.

Every human rights activist knows the axiom: human rights activists and the government are antagonists by nature. After all, people with an active civic position, with a heightened sense of justice and human dignity, do not become human rights defenders out of their own whim or great desire (after all, this work is large, intense, requires a lot of knowledge, time, effort and, as a rule, is completely thankless in the material sense) .

The active protest (and therefore unsafe) activity of these people was and is causing their indignant minds to “boil”, the gross, cynical, large-scale disregard for human rights and freedoms by numerous government agencies and the “hired workers” inhabiting them, who, according to the basic law countries (social contract) were created for this purpose at our (taxpayers’) expense, to ensure in the country (and not only) the implementation of these rights and freedoms of the “source of power”, their fellow citizens. But despite this direct official responsibility, in fact (and there is countless evidence of this today) it is the Russian government (in all its manifestations and levels) that is the biggest violator of human rights and freedoms in our country.

Here are just some examples of violations of fundamental human rights in Russia.

Over the course of at least the last 18 years, Russians have been deprived of the right to periodically change power due to the lack of fair, equal and competitive elections; there is no real separation of powers in the country; the judicial and representative powers are formed and dependent on the executive power represented by the self-proclaimed the president and his administration. As a result, Russians have actually lost the right to judicial protection (according to the Prosecutor General of the country, 25% of the country's citizens are deprived of liberty due to unjust sentences), they cannot influence and prevent the emergence of laws that violate their rights and freedoms (after all, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation consists not of those elected by the people, but from “senators” and “deputies” appointed by the impostor and pleasing to him). The country lacks the right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. Law enforcement agencies (police, prosecutor's office, investigative committee, Federal Penitentiary Service, etc.), instead of fulfilling their direct duties to protect the rights and freedoms of fellow citizens, for which they, in fact, were created and function with taxpayers' money, have been turned into guardsmen who, to please the usurper and his governors in the regions, contrary to the law and the Constitution, they violate human rights and freedoms in every possible way and for far-fetched reasons.

Citizens of the country, generally recognized as the richest in natural resources, are deprived of the right to a decent standard of living, only because the country’s national wealth has been almost completely seized with the connivance and with the participation of the usurper, hundreds of dollar billionaires, also included in the “Kremlin list.” Hence the miserable pensions of Russians, a quarter of their fellow citizens eking out an existence below the poverty line, dying villages, a growing number of suicides, and the lack of the right to full medical care and education.

Finally, cynically and grossly disregarding the norms of international law, the self-proclaimed president with a nuclear club, who has lost touch with reality, has been dragging the country and its citizens into so-called hybrid wars (Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Syria) for the last few years with manic stupidity and persistence under far-fetched pretexts. depriving many Russians (and not only others) of perhaps the most important human right – the right to life, and bringing the world closer to nuclear self-destruction.

The properties found in the epigraph of Julius Kim are fully applicable to this current government.

Thus, in Russia the usurper has created a criminal system of power that does not in any way correspond to the basic law of the country and violates the Constitution. The presence and participation of Russian citizens in this vicious system of power (even as part of very attractive in name (Public Chamber under the President, Human Rights Council under the President, etc.), but fake, in fact, pseudo-civilian pro-government structures) inevitably dooms them to be accomplices and accomplices in the crimes of the regime.

And it is absolutely unacceptable, in my deep conviction, such presence and participation in the criminal system of power created by the impostor for people with a heightened sense of justice and human dignity, i.e. human rights defenders.

Any person always has a choice in life. “Human rights activist” M.A. Fedotov also had the same choice. when he agreed to be an adviser to the usurper and head the Human Rights Council under his person.

So why today, taking into account the above, the inclusion of this name on the sanctions list should cause anyone offense, surprise, bewilderment or indignation. I believe this event is completely justified and natural.

I have always been surprised and outraged by the ardent desire of many very well-known fellow citizens who call themselves human rights activists, which they showed at one time during the formation of the notorious Human Rights Council under the person of the impostor. After all, it was a serious struggle (even with a real threat to the health of the participants) for every seat on the coveted Council. One of the contenders, the notorious “human rights activist” Brod, even went on a hunger strike without being included in the Council. But then the “good” usurper did not allow Brod to die of starvation, condescendingly, from the master’s shoulder, increasing the number of members of the Council.

It is difficult for me to imagine such behavior, for example, of Polish human rights activists, distinguished by their integrity and consistency, many of whom, after active participation in the events of 1981 (when the pro-Soviet regime of General Jaruzelski fell and Lech Walesa became president in the elections), were called to participate in work in the structures the authorities of the emerging democratic Poland (Sejm, government). Human rights activists went to power, but their membership in the human rights movement was immediately suspended precisely because human rights protection and power are incompatible and unnatural concepts. This is, if you like, “hot ice”, which does not exist in nature.

Often fellow citizens justify their voluntary entry into the structures of criminal power by the emergence of additional opportunities to influence the authorities (proximity to the body of the usurper creates this illusion) and the use of these opportunities to restore human rights and freedoms violated by the same authorities.

In this regard, I remember the time of Gorbachev’s Thaw in the mid-80s, when many members of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union, if anyone has forgotten), fully aware of the disastrous and criminal rule of this party for the country, naively tried from within, remaining communists , influence it, change it. Then, it’s scary to think, a faction was even created in the CPSU - “Democratic Platform in the CPSU.” And how these attempts ended: the complete collapse of not only the party, but also the country. And there was only one reason: the CPSU had already long passed the point of no return and was agonizing under the unbearable burden of boundless lies, theft, corruption and unfounded ambitions.

“Our”, as the Russian Central Election Commission calls him on his campaign posters, “the president” has long passed the same point of no return and for the same reasons. I am sure that even “human rights activists” in the relevant Council are beyond the power to influence him, to change his twilight consciousness and inappropriate behavior.

This is about the same as convincing a tenth-generation inveterate cannibal to eat grass or sincerely believing in the possibility of Chikatilo turning into a respectable and law-abiding citizen.

Leopard change his spots.

Ryazan Oblast

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