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2003-06-23 Fifth Column

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Posted by Steve White 2003-06-23 1:37:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A small force would have been attacked by the guard of activists who was caring for Jose Bove. BTW gendarmes are technically not police but military.

Posted by JFM 6/23/03 4:06:04 AM|| 6/23/03 4:06:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it would be a nice idea to indict the heads of the organizations who protested against the war along with Schroeder, Fischer, Chirac and Villepin: their action was aimed at buying Saddam time. Time to kill more people.

Posted by JFM 6/23/03 4:17:53 AM|| 6/23/03 4:17:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Tokyo Taro> They're two widely separate things. Not really morally mind you, just in the way the world treats them.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 6/23/03 6:02:56 AM|| 6/23/03 6:02:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "They broke down the door and shattered a window, despite the fact that he was alone and of course offered no resistance. The minimum would have been to knock on the door before entering." Boo Hoo. Did Jose knock and politely ask if he could trash a McDonalds. BTW did you know that young Jose was raised in Berkley.

Posted by Edmund Burke 6/23/03 7:01:00 AM|| 6/23/03 7:01:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting. Doesn't France oppose GM foods and has forced the EU to do the same, so that third world countries in Africa are fooled/intimidated to oppose the use thereof in THEIR countries, and thus perpetuate malnutrition and hunger in their countries?

It now becomes clear: The French do not oppose GM foods. They oppose AMERICAN BRAND GM foods and want to protect potential markets so that THEIR BRAND of GM foods can have free entrance when they finally get their act together.

Foolish Jose! You destroyed the WRONG fields!

Posted by Ptah 6/23/03 7:57:57 AM|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 6/23/03 7:57:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Let him cool his heels for two years, then cut him loose.

Posted by Ptah 6/23/03 8:11:27 AM|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 6/23/03 8:11:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 EU asks that GM foods are labelled as such, it doesn't oppose their existence by themselves.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 6/23/03 8:26:14 AM|| 6/23/03 8:26:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Some African countries where people were dying from hunger have refused GM food aid from the US because after having accepted it the EU would have banned their future agricultural exports on the basis of them being tainted. Additionnaly those countries refuse new, more productive and more nutritional varieties on fear of the EU thus keeping them dependent on EU imports and unablme to compete on third markets. People get beri-beri because their countries fear EU's retaliation if they plant a GM rice who provides vitamin A. People are dying due to the Evil Union.

Posted by JFM 6/23/03 9:09:16 AM|| 6/23/03 9:09:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 They should've gone in shooting. I mean you're dealing with a destroyer of genetically modified crops here! Why take chances!
Another French victory in the War on Terror!

Posted by tu3031 6/23/03 9:20:21 AM|| 6/23/03 9:20:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Aris: you may want to catch up on the EU's ban on GM foods. It isn't simply about "labelling."
And, as this story illustrates, it isn't just the US that has problems with the so-called "moratorium"
US confronts EU on GM foods ban

Posted by R. McLeod 6/23/03 8:09:51 PM|| 6/23/03 8:09:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 He didn't just trespass and destroy crops. The real good part is that he also claimed his own crops had been tainted, but an investigation showed - and he has been convicted for this, too - he stole and planted the stuff.

Posted by John Anderson 6/24/03 4:54:41 AM|| 6/24/03 4:54:41 AM|| Front Page Top

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