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Submitted by georgiamedia on Tue, 20/10/2009 - 22:54
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Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionTea Tutberidze has defended her decision to post videos mocking the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, Ilia II, on her Facebook page.
In a report broadcast by Kavkasia TV and monitored by the BBC she said:
"Let me remind you that the patriarch is not God. We don't live in Iran, and I think a lot of people would do better to look at this from a different viewpoint, with more pluralism and tolerance."
She mocked the claim that she had posted the videos at the instruction of the government sarcastically stating "The government, parliament and president simultaneously ordered us to do this and we did. This is how it happens all the time. Every video I post has been ordered by the government."
The videos are highly personally offensive to the Patriarch - with one overdubbing a speech of the Patriarch with the words "People, let's get together and f*** Saakashvili."
The Liberty Institute, for which Tutberidze works, is extremely close to the regime in power in Tbilisi - many of the government's leading politicians served an apprenticeship there and it is still seen as the key ideological power house for Saakashvili.
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"Let me remind you that the patriarch is not God. We don't live in Iran, and I think a lot of people would do better to look at this from a different viewpoint, with more pluralism and tolerance."
shut the ****** !!! you really want to live in Iran don't you??
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