Anti-fascist rally turns violent in Italy

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6541560&cKey=1142108423000

MILAN (Reuters) - Anti-globalisation protesters clashed with police in Italy's financial centre on Saturday, underlining political tension ahead of April's elections.

Up to 300 left-wing protesters, many wearing balaclavas and wielding crowbars, set fire to cars and a building on one of Milan's busiest shopping streets when police tried to break up their protest against a fascist pre-election rally.

Angry shopkeepers and residents cornered a few of the protesters and punched and kicked them, before police managed to drag them off. A nail bomb injured nine police officers and at least 45 protesters were detained, police said.

"They turned a quiet Saturday into a war zone," Milan council official Riccardo Dicorato told Reuters while police rounded up dozens of demonstrators and firemen hosed down burning cars and motor scooters.

[DS1]

1. Balaclavas and crowbars? This is sounding a lot like Half-life

:yoiks:

[Eric J in MN]

3. What is Half-life?

nt

[DS1]

5. Computer game

Geeks will get it, google it

[stepnw1f]

4. No Kidding

Great game...

[Karmakaze]

2. If they were Muslim...

there would be a chorus of condemnation by now, with people asking why Italians are so violent, and blaming Catholicism for all the worlds ills, and a few people talking about how ignorant and inbred Italians are.

[Emendator]

6. One big difference

is that leftist Italian goons, while wrong to commit such vandalism, are still Italians and preferable to Islamic goons who want to take over and destroy the West.

[NNN0LHI]

7. But I would prefer Islamic goons taking over the west than redneck goons

At least one can reason with Islamic goons.

Don

[Jim Sagle]

8. One can? I see no evidence of that.

Leftist goons are secular and pro-democratic.

Islamic goons are clerical and anti-democratic.

Case closed.

[Karmakaze]

13. Case re-opened...

Actually the poster said "redneck goons" not "leftist goons" and redneck goons are very often clerical and anti-democratic.

[Jim Sagle]

14. True dat, The subject got changed from leftist to redneck without me

noticing.

[Emendator]

10. If you can reason with Islam goons successfully

then you'd be the first. Stop wasting your diplomatic talents here and go win your Nobel Prize.

[NNN0LHI]

11. I have watched the USA reasoning with Islamic goons for decades

Here is a short list of Islamic goons the USA has allied itself with in the past.

The Shah Of Iran
Saddam Hussein
The Saudi Royal Family
King of Jordan (We outsource our torture to him)
Osama bin Laden (He terrorized the Soviets for us real good)
The Ayatollah Of Iran (Iran/Contra)
Hosni Mubarak (Another torturer)
General Pervez Musharraf

There has been a lot more. See I wouldn't be the first. Not even close.

Don

[burythehatchet]

15. Wow. How have you managed to get to 213

Mods must be asleep at the wheel

[TheBaldyMan]

16. you mean like the Taliban in Afghanistan

that were responsible for successfully shutting down 80% of heroin production in country, apart from the part that was controlled by the Northern Alliance ?

Although I wouldn't describe them as 'Islamic Goons', that sounds more like the Ba'athist Party that Rumsfeld and Cheney did business with through the nineties.

Or the ... I think you get the picture :D

[Karmakaze]

12. Thank you for proving my point.

The bigotry and hypocrisy shown even here on DU in regards to the anti-Muslim cartoons is obvious. This case proves that.

[maveric]

9. Isnt Milan the fascist center of Italy?

If I'm not mistaken, Mussolini ran his operations out of Milan.

[TheBaldyMan]

17. It's the money centre of Italy - same thing I suppose. n/t