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Jocassee

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Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« on: August 06, 2011, 12:25:40 PM »
Tiny village in Russia, far from apathetic police presence, defends aginst drug traders with whatever is handy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/world/europe/05village.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2011, 12:33:37 PM »
Quote from: Jocassee on August 06, 2011, 12:25:40 PM
Tiny village in Russia, far from apathetic police presence, defends aginst drug traders with whatever is handy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/world/europe/05village.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3

I'm tempted to mail them some Gadsden flags in Russian.
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2011, 12:34:28 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on August 06, 2011, 12:33:37 PM
I'm tempted to mail them some Gadsden flags in Russian.

Or some machine parts?
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2011, 12:35:17 PM »
Great story.
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There is even a T-shirt honoring the town’s signal event: “If the government can’t help people,” it reads, “It doesn’t have the right to forbid them from defending themselves — Sagra 2011.”
RKBA comes to Russia. Excellent news.
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2011, 02:11:08 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on August 06, 2011, 12:33:37 PM
I'm tempted to mail them some Gadsden flags in Russian.

That along with some letters congratulating them actually does sound like a nice atta-boy for those fellas.
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2011, 04:42:18 PM »
Ah, the story of Sagra reaches America.


Fact: there is one registered shotgun in Sagra.

Fact: At least three people were firing guns at the invaders.

Fact: The police are for some reason forgetting to investigate this fact. ;)
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2011, 04:48:47 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on August 06, 2011, 12:33:37 PM
I'm tempted to mail them some Gadsden flags in Russian.

Volunteer attorney working with the Sagra crew can be seen here.
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2011, 04:51:05 PM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on August 06, 2011, 04:48:47 PM
Volunteer attorney working with the Sagra crew can be seen here.

No habla. :P
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2011, 04:54:40 PM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on August 06, 2011, 04:51:05 PM
No habla. :P
He said "seen", not "read".  :lol:
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2011, 04:55:11 PM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on August 06, 2011, 04:51:05 PM
No habla. :P

It's "no hablo".  No habla means "he doesn't speak" which would mean you were talking about yourself in the third person....
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2011, 05:31:02 PM »
Quote from: Regolith on August 06, 2011, 04:55:11 PM
It's "no hablo".  No habla means "he doesn't speak" which would mean you were talking about yourself in the third person....

The squirrel does not know what you mean.
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2011, 06:00:42 PM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on August 06, 2011, 04:51:05 PM
No habla. :P

I can tell you her name is anastasia uderevska, and that she's  asking for help with the case, but that's about it :D
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2011, 01:24:46 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on August 06, 2011, 04:48:47 PM
Volunteer attorney working with the Sagra crew can be seen here.

She's still alive after that anticorruption work she was doing a couple years back?  Very impressive.  Figured she would be taking a dirt nap by now.

Didn't she and that other attorney do some investigative work on some of Putin's cronies?
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2011, 05:37:31 AM »
Hell knows. You're probably meaning Navalny. And his blonde lawyer lady assistant. And his demolitions-expert attorney assitant.
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2011, 07:11:54 AM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on August 06, 2011, 05:31:02 PM
The squirrel does not know what you mean.

"Hablo" is the first-person conjugate of the verb hablar, which means "to speak". 
"Hablo" means "I speak".

"Habla" is the third-person conjugate of hablar, and means "he/she/it speaks."

/spanishlesson
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2011, 05:28:44 PM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on August 07, 2011, 05:37:31 AM
Hell knows. You're probably meaning Navalny. And his blonde lawyer lady assistant. And his demolitions-expert attorney assitant.

This sounds like the setup to a TV show.

And you mean to tell us you KNEW about Sagra but witheld this news? :facepalm:
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Re: Sagra, Russia: "We picked up axes and pitchforks"
« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2011, 07:39:12 PM »
Quote from: Jocassee on August 07, 2011, 05:28:44 PM
This sounds like the setup to a TV show.

And you mean to tell us you KNEW about Sagra but witheld this news? :facepalm:


If it's Russia, assume MB knows it.

Uhm, if there is an attractive Russian lady involved, I certainly hope I know about it in short order!      =D
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