So Frenchy... so ungrateful!
If you ever had any doubt that the French are way behind the times, read the April 1st issue of Socialist Worker Online. http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=8587
Watching the Paris protests, I am reminded of a childhood growing up ten minutes from People's Park and Berzerkley, CA. Crowd scenes and whistle noises, uncontrolled mob movements (police BACKING up to keep control), a lock down of public institutions all remind me of my childhood. Is it any wonder I am conservative when the first news I remember was filled with Black Panther protests, assassinations in Oakland including the School Superintendent, kidnapped oil executives' kids and a newspaper heiress?
Who can be sympathetic to a 'cause' when the protest is so destructive? Not me. Why do the French youth believe that their future will be advanced by transit strikes, violent marches and political gridlock? Not I.
Our socialist friends write: "Since last week this sense has been reversed – people feel that winning is possible. If we manage to beat the government on the CPE it will open a new space where demonstrations and mobilisations have been clearly proved as winning formulas, which in itself would be an enormous victory." © Copyright Socialist Worker.
Winning is possible? Beat the government? This is an enormous victory?? Who do they think is the enemy? Have the French forgotten that Marie Antoinette is long gone and the government is their own? Apparently, the French socialists have.
No one guaranteed me a job, not even after earning three college degrees. Why should the French guarantee their kids a lifetime of under-performance and an under-funded pension on the road to national economic decline? The French are so un-grateful.
If you ever had any doubt that the French are way behind the times, read the April 1st issue of Socialist Worker Online. http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=8587
Watching the Paris protests, I am reminded of a childhood growing up ten minutes from People's Park and Berzerkley, CA. Crowd scenes and whistle noises, uncontrolled mob movements (police BACKING up to keep control), a lock down of public institutions all remind me of my childhood. Is it any wonder I am conservative when the first news I remember was filled with Black Panther protests, assassinations in Oakland including the School Superintendent, kidnapped oil executives' kids and a newspaper heiress?
Who can be sympathetic to a 'cause' when the protest is so destructive? Not me. Why do the French youth believe that their future will be advanced by transit strikes, violent marches and political gridlock? Not I.
Our socialist friends write: "Since last week this sense has been reversed – people feel that winning is possible. If we manage to beat the government on the CPE it will open a new space where demonstrations and mobilisations have been clearly proved as winning formulas, which in itself would be an enormous victory." © Copyright Socialist Worker.
Winning is possible? Beat the government? This is an enormous victory?? Who do they think is the enemy? Have the French forgotten that Marie Antoinette is long gone and the government is their own? Apparently, the French socialists have.
No one guaranteed me a job, not even after earning three college degrees. Why should the French guarantee their kids a lifetime of under-performance and an under-funded pension on the road to national economic decline? The French are so un-grateful.
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