REPO: PREMIER WALL: Sanctions against Russia but not Ukraine

[Oscar]

REPO: OPEN LETTER TO PREMIER WALL: Sanctions against Russia but not Ukraine?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marjaleena Repo" <mrepo@sasktel.net>
To: <bwall@mla.legassembly.sk.ca>
Cc: <cbroten@mla.legassembly.sk.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 11:09 AM
Subject: OPEN LETTER TO PREMIER WALL: Sanctions against Russia but not Ukraine?

OPEN LETTER TO SASKATCHEWAN'S PREMIER BRAD WALL

Dear Premier Wall,

You have seen fit to propose a boycott of Russian liquor in Saskatchewan stores, presumably because you disapprove of the overwhelming vote of Crimean citizens to return to Russian jurisdiction. You appear, however, to have no problem with the violent overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government on February 22 by documentably neo-nazi groups that now have crucial positions in the "new government."
See [ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/m ... -turchynov) ]

I hope you will take time to examine the following documentation of the nature of this "new government" that continues to use force against those it disagrees with. You will see in a video clip three Svoboda MPs, one of them member of the parliamentary committee on freedom of speech, along with several other party members, beat the director of the Ukrainian national television into submitting his resignation, because the network's coverage has displeased them. They were bold enough to have their own cameraman cover the beating and posted the footage on YouTube where the world has been able to watch their method of getting their way. (They have since tried to remove it as possibly causing bad PR for them, but have not completely succeeded.)

I'm sure you will find these images chilling, as I did. They have been viewed by hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, across the world.

Here is the full clip:

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_3YoC ... Ihyyod9B_w ]


Here is a news report, detailing who the participants were, naming the three Svoboda MPs:

[ http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/
nationalist-svoboda-party-members-of-parliament-assault-first-channel-tv-manager-video-340002.html ]


European Broadcasting condemns the assault:

[ http://www.euronews.com/2014/03/19/
european-broadcasting-union-condemns-assault-on-ukrainian-television-head/ ]


Finally, in case any doubt remains in your mind about the nature the putsch in Ukraine, here is a Swedishscholar, Per Anders Rudling's historical analysis of the neo-nazi forces in Ukraine. He is an expert on the neo-nazi movement in Ukraine and other eastern European countries:

[ https://www.academia.edu/2481420/_The_R ... voboda_in_
Ruth_Wodak_and_John_E._Richardson_eds._Analyzing_Fascist_Discourse_
European_Fascism_in_Talk_and_Text_London_and_New_York_Routledge_
2013_228-255 ]


I hope that there will be "sober second thought" in your up-to-now reaction to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Your obliviousness to the clear and present danger of Ukraine's neo-nazis in power posits a danger to the citizens of this province who through you will be endorsing and supporting something we would never tolerate on our home territory.

Please kindly make this information available to all the Saskatchewan MLAs.

Sincerely,

Marjaleena Repo
201 Elm Street
Saskatoon, SK S7J 0G8
306-244-9724

[Oscar]

LITTLE: Comment on Repo Open Letter to Premier Wall: Sanctions against Russia but not Ukraine?

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Little
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 11:00 AM
Subject: Fwd: REPO: OPEN LETTER TO PREMIER WALL: Sanctions against Russia but not Ukraine?

I forward this letter from Marjaleena Repo, whom I do not know, to Premier Wall. This well documented letter points out the hypocrisy in the political bantering coming from G7 nations and particularly from Canadian politicians of all stripes. It has to do not whether or not we liked the ousted government of the Ukraine but whether or not it was the legitimate government. Regime change is a dangerous path to support when the main reason for regime change is to support a government that is more favourable to western corporate or ideological interests. I have no doubts that the Russian government is involved in its own nefarious ways and cannot be trusted. However it would seem to me that the Canadian and other western nations are playing the same game, and this threatens world stability and peace. In the end it only serves to boost the classical interests of the war industry.

Are there any politicians out there actually willing to think outside the box and speak to the reality rather than to the ideological illusions for which the west is as much an actor as Russia?

Sincerely,

Phil Little
10846 Grandview Road
Ladysmith B.C. V9G1Z7