Putin Games Idiocy of 'Hate Speech'

To understand why it is absolutely necessary to keep alive the universal bugaboo idiotically referred to as “hate speech,” you have only to watch Russia’s now famous Pussy Riot band in action.

By “in action,” of course, I am referring to three thin women in colorful minidresses, their pretty faces hidden behind woolen ski masks. They are performing an anti-Putin song in a Russian Orthodox church—okay, Moscow’s main Orthodox church, where a lot of people, mainly nuns and guards, seem to be upset by what they’re hearing—and what the young women are actually singing, according to Voice of America is a chant that calls on the Virgin Mary to drive Vladimir Putin away forever.

Not, on the whole, a bad idea. But thus far, completely ineffectual.