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2008-09-22 Europe

French, German rallies demand Afghanistan pullout

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 doesn't seem like a very impressive turnout for protests that had been mobilized by 250 pacifist groups and trade-union organizations.

Sheesh. It seems with that much organization you should at least get a better turnout than what the local art in the park can pull.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-22 03:27|| 2008-09-22 03:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Greens, the Communist Party, and the far left Revolutionary Communist League, ~~the usual suspects.~~

Thousands of people in France and Germany take to the streets on any given weekend. Yawn.....

Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-22 03:55|| 2008-09-22 03:55|| Front Page Top

#3 THe French Communist Pary helping Taliban and Al Quaida. Just like in 1940 when it helped the Nazis through undermining of French soldiers morale and sabotage of tanks and of plane manufacturing.

My own little, "never forget, never forgive".

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-22 09:04|| 2008-09-22 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 doesn't seem like a very impressive turnout for protests that had been mobilized by 250 pacifist groups and trade-union organizations.

As an aside, regarding "activist", "civil rights", "gay rights", "anti-racist", IE all those "community organizers" parazites living off society... in France, you've got to understand that 1) they represent NOTHING in term of actual manpower and representative democracy (most of them are weak false noses for movements with no actual electoral weight like commies, trostkysts, anarchists, or even foreign gvts like algeria)
BUT
2) they get both an absurd Msm coverage and resonance (that is, they are the default "representative face" of any given movement, not to mention actual complicity from like-minded media drones), and they are STATE-FUNDED.
None of those orgs could ever exist thanks to members fees & donations, they are purely funded by public money, through local or national organisms... even though they are basically trying to subvert established order.
What this means is that for example, "anti-racist" orgs can freely sue anyone guilty of thoughtcrimes and I don't mean just big cheezes, but even very average people, without having to worry about money, since it's the State's, not their. And it also allows for a camarilla of "civil rights" lawyers to live off that racket.

One ex... During the 2005 ramadan riots, about 300 such orgs called for a demonstration, which brang about 250-300 people, not even one per org (because since the market for subsidies is so juicy, you've got the president of one being the treasury guy of an another whuile his president is an adviser for his own, and so on)... yet, they got a full & very favorable msm coverage (as opposed say to an anti-strike demonstration organized by free-market guys in 2005???? which got about 10 000 people, and was NOT covered by any teevee, literally not the memory hole from the start).

As for the unions, they represent NOTHING either. My figures are a bit fuzzy, but I think unionization in France is around 2-4% of the workforce... most, or almost all of it in the public sector, IE people hired for life who can't be fired whatever they do, thanks to the commie status given to them in the provisional gvt days right after WWII.

Bottom line of this overly long comment is that those thousands represent NOTHING. They are the usual suspects, they are virtual entities enabled only by the complicit msm and by a socialist, constructivist State.

Not to say many french don't agree with them, but it's only because people think what they are told to think, by the general doxa (exactly as I'm myself told what to think here, except that I chose that because I like thinking that way, as opposed to being spoon-fed by the mass-media and not even knowing it. At least, I know my poison).

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-09-22 12:32|| 2008-09-22 12:32|| Front Page Top

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