Tucker interviews Bob Amsterdam, an attorney for the Christian denomination banned by the Ukrainian government. Highlights include:
“If you take three steps back, a lot of what’s happening around the world seems like an attack on Christianity. Thanks to the neocon project, virtually the entire ancient Christian population of Iraq was eliminated. The US government under several presidents has funded, effectively, the killing of Christians in Syria, and this continues throughout the Middle East and in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine, the most obvious example . The Ukrainian government has now banned an entire Christian denomination and virtually no one in the United States has said anything about it.”
“Five years ago, the Ukrainian government, in its wisdom, set up what is called an autocephalous church, an independent church, independent of Russia, any connection to Russian canons, and decided that that church should replace the spiritual home of Ukrainians. That church, called the OCU, has been engaged in an absolutely vicious, unlimited campaign to steal property, harass, intimidate and jail clerics, force conscription on believers, act in a manner that is almost unbelievable in a civilized society. And they’ll use the excuse that this church, which, by the way, completely separated from Moscow in May of last year, is somehow connected to the Russian FSB… There seems to be little substance to this allegation. And in fact, there are other institutions in Ukraine, like the secret police, who have been far more infiltrated by Russian than this particular church.”
“The politicians in Ukraine, including perhaps the president, want to take the populist vote of those behind this new church and therefore feel it is in their political interests to destroy this ancient branch of Christianity. And I absolutely can tell you that the damage that has been visited on the leadership of this church, including five year jail sentences for 75-year-old clerics just astounds you that in the 21st century, a country that wants to join the EU, would ban a religion, let alone an ancient Christian form of that religion.”
“There is no basis under the Ukrainian constitution, or under international law, or the laws of war, or Ukraine’s own resolution in terms of limited rights during the war for the banning of a religious denomination… This goes beyond anything acceptable. It’s a violation of the EU charter, it’s a violation of the Copenhagen criteria that the Ukraine would have to satisfy to enter the EU. This has nothing but a Tammany Hall local political logic.”
“The Ukraine lobby is immensely powerful, and there is a humongous ban on truth right now in the United States with respect to what’s happening in Ukraine. Many of our leaders in the United States aren’t even hearing this. It’s the same in Europe. You cannot get through the massive PR machine that the Ukrainians have put together.”
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Ep. 34 Of all of Biden’s crimes, backing the Ukrainian government as it throws priests in jail may be the most revealing. pic.twitter.com/ZCVV4uPzs9
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 26, 2023
