Immigrants Finally Talking About Georgia

Hey, members of Philadelphia’s Russian community — previously afraid to speak out, apparently — is finally getting it together. They held a protest yesterday at Independence Mall, and KYW 1060 recaps a bunch of protest quotes:

• “Hospitals are swamped, they’re flooded with people. That’s what we need right now. We need to reconstruct, rebuild and get Russia out.”
• “In Ossetia in Tskinvali they’re still burning the houses down completely!”
• “They do not care about any standards of normal society!”
• “There are people calling in radio stations saying they’re hiding in the basements!”
• “There’s killing killing and killing! Killing and blood is their weapon! That’s the only thing!”
• “We just want to live in a normal, democratic world! That’s what we want! We do not want to live in the jungle.”

See, that’s a better description of this war than you’ll get from a TV news report, and it’s done by people at Independence Mall. Let’s hope Vladmir Putin — clearly, listening to KYW 1060 on his drive home — didn’t recognize any of those voices.

Pro-Georgia Rally on Independence Mall [KYW 1060]