Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One of ‘orcs’.
Youngest political prisoners.
Has lost an appeal to overturn.
A five-year jail sentence.
He was only.
15 when he was.
Arrested in the summer.
Of 2023.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
Authorities accused.
Him of joining.
The Freedom of Russia Legion.
– a paramilitary unit.
Composed of.
‘Orcs’ volunteers.
Fighting for Ukraine.
Against the ‘orcs’ army.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
The Freedom of Russia Legion.
Is designated as.
Terrorist organization.
By ‘Mordor’.
And he was sentenced.
And he was sentenced.
To five years.
In a juvenile colony.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
On Thursday.
The court of appeal reduced.
His five-year term.
– but only by 24 days.
He is one of nine minors.
Who have faced.
Politically motivated.
Criminal charges.
Since the start of.
The ‘orcs’ invasion of Ukraine.
And the subsequent crackdown.
On civil liberties.
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
He denies all.
The charges against him.
He denies all.
The charges against him.
He says he researched.
The legion but that.
He never applied and.
Has committed no crime.
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
His mother also maintains.
He is innocent.
His mother also maintains.
He is innocent.
“I just don’t understand.
The judge who.
Handed down.
The sentence,” she said.
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
Investigators have also claimed.
He distributed leaflets.
Critical of ‘the One’.
On the legion’s behalf.
He admitted to.
Distributing leaflets.
But denied following.
Instructions from anybody.
He did openly criticize.
‘Orcs’ invasion of Ukraine.
And ‘the One’.
In school.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
He was also politically.
Active on social media.
Reposting content from.
‘Mordor’’s opposition figures.
And occasionally sharing.
His own political content.
Including a video in which.
He can be seen.
Holding a solo picket.
In support of.
Late opposition politician.
Alexei Navalny.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
His mother says.
He was acting.
Of his own accord.
Of his own accord.
His mother says.
He was acting.
Not on the instructions.
Of the Freedom of Russia Legion.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
Yet, in late August.
2023.
Agents from the FSB.
‘Mordor’’s security service.
Searched his home.
In the small town.
Of Livny.
450km south of Moscow.
Agents from the FSB.
Searched his home.
And confiscated.
His electronic devices.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
The next day.
He was summoned for.
Questioning and.
Accused of joining.
The Freedom of Russia Legion.
“I was hysterical.
I was shaking.
Crying,” says his mother.
“He told me:
‘Mum, calm down.
I didn’t commit any crime.
They will work it out.’”
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
No lawyer was present.
During the interrogation.
Which his mother.
Deeply regrets.
She believes the FSB.
Subsequently added to.
The transcript a confession of.
Guilt that he never made.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘There’s the King’s Messenger.
He’s inprison now.’
Some of his schoolmates.
Were questioned.
By investigators.
And said he would.
Often criticize.
‘The One’ and.
‘Mordor’’s actions.
In Ukraine.
But in their statements.
None of them said.
He had a connection to.
The Freedom of Russia Legion.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘He’s inprison now.
Being punished;’
‘And the trial doesn’t even.
Begin till Wednesday:
And of course.
The crime comes last of all.’
Nevertheless.
He was formally.
Arrested.
The following week.
He spent several months.
Under house arrest.
As he awaited sentencing.
Then, last June.
He was transferred to.
A Moscow detention centre.
Where he has been detained.
Ever since.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘Suppose he never.
Commits the crime?’ Said Alice.
‘That would be all the better.
Wouldn’t it?’ the Queen said.
‘Of course it would.
Be all the better,’ she said:
In that time.
His mother says.
His weight has dropped.
From 69kg to 52kg.
As he struggled.
With lack of.
Appetite due to.
Constant stress.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘But it wouldn’t be all the better.
His being punished.’
‘You’re wrong there.
At any rate,’ said the Queen:
‘Were you ever punished?’
‘Only for faults,’ said Alice.
His mother also noticed.
He has withdrawn emotionally.
And that he often asks.
Why he is punished.
For something.
He did not do.
For something.
He did not do.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘And you were all the better.
For it, I know!’
The Queen said triumphantly.
‘Yes, but then I had done the things.
I was punished for,’ said Alice:
‘That makes all the difference.’
For a time.
He also had.
A violent cellmate.
Who attacked him.
A violent cellmate.
Who hit him.
On the head.
And threatened him.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘But if you hadn’t done them,’ the Queen said,
‘That would have been better still;’
‘Better, and better, and better!’
Alice was just beginning to say.
‘There’s a mistake somewhere-.’
When the Queen began screaming so loud.
His mother and his teachers.
Painted a picture of.
A highly intelligent and.
Politically engaged young man.
Who now faces.
Several long years.
In jail for a crime.
He did not commit.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
His mother said.
From a young age.
He had been passionate about.
Science, particularly physics and economics.
He had dreamed of.
Studying political science.
At a prestigious.
Moscow university.
“He wanted to improve.
Life in ‘Mordor’.”
His mother said.
“Life in ‘Mordor’.”
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
She spoke of her son.
Having a strong sense of justice.
Which he developed after.
Experiencing bullying at school.
He was frequently mocked.
And called derogatory names.
Because he was born.
In Dubai.
Because he was born.
In Dubai.
And his father was from.
The United Arab Emirates.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
His mother says that.
Since his arrest.
He no longer.
Has any friends.
As most have distanced.
Themselves from him.
As most have distanced.
Themselves from him.
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
Her neighbours and co-workers.
Even accuse her.
Of having “raised.
A terrorist”, she says.
If he really was innocent.
They argue.
The court would.
Have acquitted him.
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
She believes they don’t.
Fully understand.
How the ‘Mordor’’s.
Judicial system works.
Her standard response.
Is to hope.
They never have to encounter.
The system themselves.
“But if you do.
You’ll find out.”
“But if you do.
You’ll find out.”
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
*Because I read “Russian anti-war teenager faces five years in jail after failed appeal” by Maria Jevstafjeva on 7 Nov 2024, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, as a story of Ildar Dadin, led by ‘Jabberwocky’ from ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Russian anti-war teenager faces five years in jail after failed appeal
Through ‘Jabberwocky’ and what I found there was ‘the Lambton Worm’, you know:
The Lambton Worm – The Lord and The Legend – Historic UK (historic-uk.com)
