Human rights apply to anyone but a
villager in Lithuania."Kauno
diena", 2007 November 17, # 263 (18326), page 5. A picture of a vandalized sculpture in one of the main streets of the city, and under the picture the explanation: This could be only done by a villager! Kaunas` dwellers love their city and would do nothing of the kind, but the rustic
mentality is destructive, so... The
newspaper emphasizes: "This is not about where does one live, this is about the mentality". What`s curious: were the words "kaimietis", "kaimiečiai" (meaning "rustic", "villager", "bucolic", "ploughboy", etc) replaced by a word for ANY nationality (except, of course, Lithuanian) or ANY orientation (except perhaps heterosexual) or ANY religion (except maybe heathen or satanist, if satanism could be called a religion), or... whatever... - the paper would have been sued and even prosecuted. But the newspaper chose to incriminate
villagers, so that was OK. Villagers can be insulted, slandered and libeled in Lithuania, and even the Journalistic Ethic Guards don`t care a button! Them that state Lithuanians have no
sense of
humour are wrong! We have a profound sense of humour, the sense is just weird, sometimes... And our MM is a perfect proof of that!Some info for the suspicious: I am not a villager. I just hate insulting people that can`t rejoin.
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