Why helping children with cancer is a threat to state security
S. Bobrovska. Photo: Bobrovska's Facebook
MP Solomiya Bobrovska found time in her busy schedule to write an appeal to the Rivne City Council. She was outraged that the authorities allowed the Rivne Eparchy to hold a charity festival for children with cancer at the local cultural center. At this event, priests and believers raised more than 210 thousand hryvnias, which could possibly help save someone's life.
So, Bobrovska claimed that the Rivne Eparchy has an "institutional and ideological connection with the aggressor country", and therefore such an event threatened the national security of the country and should not have been held.
Let’s raise a few questions.
1. Does Bobrovska have evidence of ties between the priests and laypeople of the Rivne Eparchy and the aggressor country? Does she have facts that the charity festival threatened national security?
If she had them, she would have provided them long ago. That is, there are none.
2. Bobrovska justifies her appeal by saying that the Rivne Regional Council banned the UOC. But she cannot be unaware that bans on denominations by local authorities are illegal and cannot have any consequences. And if she doesn't know this – what is she doing in the Rada?
3. Perhaps the MP herself donates money to children with cancer, and these amounts more than cover everything that could be raised in the UOC? No, we see nothing of the sort.
Bobrovskaya’s letter has entirely predictable consequences: next time, the authorities in Rivne (and elsewhere) will ban UOC charity events, if only to avoid having to answer to disgruntled deputies afterward. And this means that children, elderly people or other people who need help will not receive this help. Who will benefit from this? Children, the people, the aggressor country?
Maybe it's time for this people to remember that deputies are not "masters of life", but their elected representatives? That their direct duty is to care not for their own wallets but for people? To make their lives better, to love them? And when you listen to Bobrovska, Huz and other poturaevs, you get the impression that all their care is to persecute, harass and hate.
No power is eternal, including this one. And in the next elections, the people should not forget all the "exploits" of the current power holders. Let them settle together somewhere in the Maldives with their "honestly earned" money and hate each other instead.
But not us.
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