So they're against the only known method of liberating a population from a bloody tyrant? The only route which could have stopped Hitler from taking the globe? The only way to defend one's nation from attack?
They're similarly against Capitalism, an economic model that has expanded the globe's wealth by thousands of percent in the last 200 years, prevented billions from starving, and gives the poor a better standard of living (in America) than 60% of the rest of the world's population?
Their rant against discrimination is simply mis-named. They're really for a system of preferences, which inevitably leads to inequitable treatment from one's own government.
Yep, that's a group to lead Europe into the future!
One step closer to world domination.
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| Posted by ReleaseTheHounds On 11/16/2003 7:54 AM CST with 18 comments The Washington Times ^ | November 16, 2003 | Delphine Soulas Some conservatives liken Sabine Herold, a 22-year-old student, to Joan of Arc, and others nickname her "Mademoiselle Thatcher" after she took on France's left-wing labor unions this summer. Many in France see her as a symbol of a growing revulsion among young French libertarians against a ruling class that punishes excellence and rewards mediocrity. "A generation of reformers, who can't bear the blocking of the [French] society anymore, is emerging. There will be soon an electoral power of people who really want to change the status quo," said Miss Herold. In March 2001, she co-founded the group Liberté, J'Ecris Ton |
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Well, plans to go to the Indymedia party never got off the ground. After an impromptu jazz band struck up in the canteen marquee at about 9pm it was three hours of dancing on the tables, in the aisles and on the bar.I've never seen spontaneous happiness - hysteria even - among what must have been more than a thousand diners, all started when one table of Italians (I think) started singing socialist anthems after dinner.
[...] This afternoon I caught some of the discussion from an outside overspill debate with Tony Negri, the once imprisoned Italian professor and, to many people, the "godfather" of the anti-globalisation movement (people here are now billing it as the "Autres Globalisation" movement, or translated into English as the "alter gobalisation", which is quite a good slogan, if a little tricky off the tongue.
He raised a massive cheer from the audience when he told how he lead a strike against Alfa Romeo in the early 70s, and eventually "blew up the electricity" to close the factory down.
But he rebuked the crowd immediately, saying this had been a "mistake." Just as many people cheered that too.
Best T-shirt so far? Well, there have been a lot, but I liked the one from the French Marxists, which turned the hammer & sickle into the Nike "swoosh" symbol, with the slogan: "Strike? Just Do It!"