In the US we would have charged them with making terrorist threats...

[DinoDoc]

Can we ignore Dannubis as a ****** and move onto more interesting areas of discussion? For instance, where are the police in instances like this or when the bossnappings happen?

[ricketyclik]

You really have no idea what you are talking about do you?

Er. perhaps not, but you're not demonstrating that to me.

[DaShi]

Can we ignore Dannubis as a ****** and move onto more interesting areas of discussion? For instance, where are the police in instances like this or when the bossnappings happen?

How ironic.

[dannubis]

Can we ignore Dannubis as a ****** and move onto more interesting areas of discussion? For instance, where are the police in instances like this or when the bossnappings happen?

Calling people (who disagree with you and tell you to mind your own ****ing business) retards without even adressing the point (Oerdin did) are exactely the kind of retorics is expect from the likes of you.

Go suck on your moms tits some more and come back when you have grown up.

[Patroklos]

Rethuglicans

This is not clever. For you own good I suggest you never use this again.

Other than that, I agree with Oerdin in this thread. I don't get to say that often

[DinoDoc]

Calling people (who disagree with you and tell you to mind your own ****ing business) retards without even adressing the point

Your point was mind numbingly stupid and irrelevent. It only served to pollute an interesting thread.

[Az]

Rethuglicans

you mean like this?

[Sprayber]

Rethuglicans

you mean like this?

Yeah, that's pretty ****ing stupid to.

[Sprayber]

This thread has got to be preserved as a low point in poly history. It's like the Geraldo Rivera show. I'm waiting for someone to throw a chair.

[KrazyHorse]

What do you expect? Somebody posts a fairly incredible abrogation of responsibility by the French judicial system and dannubis comes out with an argument to indicate that no criticism coming from any citizen of a nation with arguably flawed judicial precedents in the last few years on a wholly distinct subject can be accepted as legitimate.

Calling him a moron is the most productive thing we can do to him. His post was so blatantly ridiculous that no more reasoned response is worthwhile.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

France, Freedom, People Power

US = teh corporate oppression and slavery

USA!

[Spiffor]

If it might interest you:

There's a reason the police doesn't intervene then : the government is trying to have social peace.

There are many hints of a very, very tense climate among the workers right now. There are several recent cases of very rough strikes, as factories said they were closing and leaving France.

This tension comes from several factors :
- The workers have been asked for years to make sacrifices so that their factory can stay in France. They've often heard promises by the employer, which are broken.

- The crisis is seen with a feeling of unfairness : the French working class didn't get benefits from the pre-crisis years. At the same time, some spectacular bonuses and boss severance packages embodied the fact that the workers produced wealth for the wealthy.

- Many of the companies that suffer from the harshet worker's movements are foreign-owned. Before jumping to a conclusion of racism, you should know that much foreign investment was motivated by "rationalizing" the French production. Many foreign-bought companies cut costs drastically, increased pressure on the workers, with no tangible benefit to them.
An additional problem with foreign-owned companies is that the actual people in charge are distant (duh) and won't actually get in contact with the workers. This distance increases frustration, which gets focused on the powerless local exec.

- Unlike some hard strikes in the 70's (which were much rougher than what we have now), those workers don't try to keep their workplace and their working dignity. They just try to pry as much money as possible from the ******* bosses. It denotes a change in the way people see their company : rather than being an important element of daily life, it's something you must pry as much money as possible from. This can be observed among all classes, though the French people still overwhelmingly try to pry that money through legal means.

- And especially, what fuels those hard strikes is despair. The people who get involved with it have no trust at all in negociation, in unions, in politics, and in the future. To them, force is the only option to get money now, for they feel they won't ever find another job that will bring a stable income in the family.


This feeling is widespread among workers right now. The arrogance among the employers only worsens it. The unions are powerless at calming this.
If the government doesn't want to put oil on the flames, it has to play it quiet. Exactly like the government does when farmers riot. The govt is right : we just had a general strike in Guadeloupe for a few months, which could have seriously become a full-scale insular riot. This event is quite inspiring.

But don't worry guys, the govenment will probably backstab them as soon as things calm down (queue the smileys )

[Felch]

Whatever happened to a whiff of grapeshot?

Napoleon knew how to handle the frogs.

[DinoDoc]

If it might interest you:

There's a reason the police doesn't intervene then : the government is trying to have social peace.

How do you encourage an enviroment where social peace blooms by turning a blind eye to an enviroment of violence, kidnapping, and a burgeoning protection racket?

[Japher]

blame the joos?