{"id":8980,"date":"2007-05-07T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=8980"},"modified":"2007-05-07T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T21:02:00","slug":"democracy-should-be-celebrated-and-lauded-unless-our-candidate-loses-in-which-case-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=8980","title":{"rendered":"Democracy should be celebrated and lauded.  Unless our candidate loses.  In which case, RIOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Expatica, “Police battle anti-Sarkozy protestors”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Riot squads fired tear gas Sunday at protestors throwing stones, bottles and, in one instance, acid at police in cities across France after right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential victory.\n<\/p>\n

\nClashes took place at Paris’ Place de la Bastille, where about 5,000 supporters of the defeated Socialist candidate Segolene Royal had gone to await the election results and had stayed on after Sarkozy’s triumph.\n<\/p>\n

\nUp to 300 rioters, some wearing scarves around their faces, used bottles and stones in running attacks on police, who responded with baton charges, tear gas and water cannon.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Police everywhere, justice nowhere,” shouted some of the rioters, while others screamed “Sarko-fascist.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nTo recap this kind of socialist thinking:  winning an election = FASCISM!; throwing stones, bottles, and acid at police after your candidate loses an election = the highest form of patriotism.<\/i>
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A small crowd of demonstrators, brandishing black and red anarchist flags, set fire to an effigy of Sarkozy before tearing it limb from limb and stamping on it.\n<\/p>\n

\nPolice cleared the square of rioters and Royal supporters alike by midnight, but hardcore anti-Sarkozy protesters later gathered nearby. When they began running towards the centre of the city and throwing bottles, police in riot gear gave pursuit and fired tear gas.\n<\/p>\n

\nAt least one injured man could later be seen lying on the ground nearby.\n<\/p>\n

\nRoyal, in a sharp campaign jab on Friday, predicted Sarkozy’s election could unleash violence in the mainly immigrant suburbs that were the centre of riots in 2005.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nTranslation:  “VOTE FOR ME, OR PARIS WILL SURELY BURN!”\n<\/p>\n

\nNice.  And virtually self-fuifilling.
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In the Paris suburbs, where the 2005 riots began before quickly spreading across France, more than a hundred cars were burned.\n<\/p>\n

\nGangs of youths armed with baseball bats were on the streets in poor suburbs south of Paris, according to police.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAh yes. Youths<\/i>. \n<\/p>\n

\nChildren Against Fascism.  What could be more pure<\/i> and idealistic<\/i>?\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter all, nothing says “we respect the electoral process” more than braining cops with paving stones if your candidate happens to lose—except, perhaps, for the veiled threats that should France more to the right, disaffected “youths” would be practically forced<\/i> to express their displeasure by burning cars, smashing windows, and throwing acid.  BECAUSE OF THE ANTI-FASCISM!\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Summer of ‘68, revisited.  Only this time. perhaps the tide is finally turning in a highly nationalistic country whose pragmatism will always force it, ultimately, to take whatever steps necessary for internal survival—their moralist pronouncements on the world stage notwithstanding.
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From Expatica, “Police battle anti-Sarkozy protestors”: Riot squads fired tear gas Sunday at protestors throwing stones, bottles and, in one instance, acid at police in cities across France after right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential victory. Clashes took place at Paris’ Place de la Bastille, where about 5,000 supporters of the defeated Socialist candidate Segolene Royal had gone to await the election results and had stayed on after Sarkozy’s triumph. Up to<\/p>\n

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