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.. just I do.

No problem with that. I also hate cars by the way. But I am polite guy and I do not nothing.

I am not cheering, I am saying that I am happy.

I do not know how fair the violence is, no idea. Maybe their violence is absolutely unfair, directed to cars of poor people in the neighboorhood.

Maybe the schools are high quality schools where a lot of people are coming out of misery.

But maybe not, may be they target only rich cars, or so disgusting and malfunctioning schools that this is for the better.

I have no idea, no idea. This is why I do not cheer. Nevertheless I think that very strong changes only comes from local and sporadic violent acts.

Murdering is disgusting and accomplishes nothing. Being inside the system can produce incremental improvement if you are lucky. The best way to produce a very important change is controlled and smart violence outside the system. The civil rights movement in the US shows that, among others (Frenc revolution anybody?).

I do hope that they are targetting the appropriate cars and schools, then I would be happy and I will understand them deeply (not even cheering, I can not cheer any violence). Just as I would understand the nepalese if they would attach chinese cars, or the palestinianas if they would burn israelis cars in the terrotories.

This whay I am happy, they look for violence, but they do not try to kill anybody. They want a face to face violence fight, but without killing. So let me be happy for the moment. As soon as their tactics change I would change too.

A pleasure.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Wed Nov 9th, 2005 at 03:25:51 AM EST
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I don´t like any street violence. :)

IF they did target only the cars of rich people or only "disgusting and malfunctioning schools", I might understand it. Not cheer it but understand it in a way.

BUT I doubt that a lot of rich people are living close to them. So I have to assume that some of the cars and schools they were torching belong to not so well off people too.

A German newspaper today on Wednesday mentioned a hospital and nurseries damaged by the riots last night in a French town. Only damaged not destroyed you understand.
Don´t know if they´re right, but hospitals and nurseries don´t seem to be targets anyone should cheer about?

by Detlef (Detlef1961_at_yahoo_dot_de) on Wed Nov 9th, 2005 at 04:24:03 PM EST
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You really never know, in my neighborhood the nursery system was disgusting. You could compare it with the service in other areas and.. well  I could see..well, it does not matter. My point is that unless you are on the ground, there is no way to know what is going on.

At least this is my point of view.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Wed Nov 9th, 2005 at 05:09:52 PM EST
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