Check out this Time magazine article on protests in France....Read the pompous first sentence:

[marmar]

"In addition to their more admirable accomplishments....." ? ....... Obviously this punkass Time writer doesn't find public protest "admirable." :argh: Good f**king grief I really hate the MSM sometimes.


French Protesters Say Non to the New Year
By Bruce Crumley / Paris Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008


In addition to their more admirable accomplishments, the French are generally considered the world champions of public protesting. Whether it's transport workers striking against tightened pension regimes, fishermen outraged by high operating costs, students battling education reform or even lawyers picketing over court closures, it seems scarcely a week goes by without some section of France's population taking to the streets. Given that, it should come as little surprise that one boisterous French group is planning a protest rally on the evening of Dec. 31 — and demanding that the world refuse to shed 2008 to make way for a troublesome-looking New Year.

"We're saying no to the tyranny of time, no to the merciless onslaught of the calendar, and yes to staying put in 2008," says a man who identifies himself as Marie-Gabriel, a militant member of the Fonacon group, which is organizing its fourth annual anti–New Year protest under the slogan "2009 Stays In Its Shell." "Last year we warned a mocking world that 2008 would be horrible compared to 2007, and we were right. This time everyone acknowledges 2009 will be terrible, so now is the moment to unite together and refuse this new, rotten year!"

As seriously bleak as 2009 is expected to be, a call to mount barricades and bar the New Year's arrival sounds like a gag even in strike-happy France. That's because Fonacon's protest is decidedly tongue in cheek — though don't expect Marie-Gabriel to admit it. In videos on the group's website, fonacon.net, he dons the signature black balaclava of guerrilla commandos as he calls sympathizers into action. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1869019,00.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Some people just hate free speech and fighting for social change.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. What's wrong with the first sentence?

I think it's a perfectly fine sentence.

Am I missing something?

[muntrv]

3. I'm betting this author believes that the founding fathers should have stayed

with King George.

[Odin2005]

4. that line is a regurgitation of the right-wing spin about the French and their welfare state

The right wingers constantly spew BS about how most of French economic problems come from them giving in to "special interest groups that riot at the drop of a hat" or some such BS.

[tularetom]

5. Don't forget that "we saved their ass in two world wars"

But of course never mention that without the assistance of France in the American Revolution there never would have been a United States of Americs.