"This is a rigged economy, which works for the rich and the powerful, and is not working for ordinary Americans … You know, this country just does not belong to a handful of billionaires".
Apparently consisting of a dozen intercepted conversations that took place in a Bratislava flat, Gorilla allegedly caught rightwing politicians and the owner of an influential local capital group discussing millions of euros in kickbacks from rigged privatisation sales and fixed public procurement tenders.
Don't worry about whether the game is rigged, or the rules are wrong: just play up.
After a failed "kidnapping" of him and another sister as schoolchildren, the obese and gormless Jean-Claude, a poor student, was next heard of in 1971 when his ailing father named him as the country's next "president-for-life" and had him endorsed in a rigged referendum (2,391,916 to one, with two abstentions).
"The game is rigged and we are running out of time.
More than 15 years later, the Marxist critics Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer used a similar image of the typist who believed she would be a movie star to reveal the American dream as a rigged lottery that no one wins but everyone plays.
Just days after Robert Mugabe was declared the winner of Zimbabwe's presidential election in August 2013, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) filed papers at the constitutional court alleging the polls were rigged in favour of Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party.
Ukraine has Europe's second-highest HIV rate, with 230,000 Ukrainians infected with the virus, yet in 2012 and 2013 more than a fifth of the budget for anti-retrovirals was embezzled through rigged auctions.
The initiative has been organised by Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khazelin, co-founders of the Belarus Free Theatre, as part of the Free Belarus Now campaign and marks Wednesday's second anniversary of the rigged election that returned Lukashenko to power and a period when thousands of peaceful protesters were arrested.
He reacted by complaining that the event had been politically rigged, and was slapped down by David Dimbleby.
Lawyers for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) filed papers at the constitutional court alleging that the polls were rigged in favour of 89-year-old Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party.
