Plotting to kill a head of state is not a protest it is a terrorist crime.
Really? Any head of state?
So if someone plotted to kill Kim Jung Un, Bashir Assad or the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they are "terrorists"? Do you know the origin of that word, terrorism, by any chance?
And no, that doesn't mean that plotting to kill a democratically elected head of state is ok or legitimate. But slapping "terrorism" on any threats to the state is not just ridiculous.
What's more ridiculous is some media insistance on regurgigating the bullshit about it just or primarily being "nationalists" and "right-wing racists" who oppose Macron's reforms. It's dishonest guilt by association excuses for letting fewer and fewer extremely rich people take more and more out of the wages of the majority of Europeans. Since you linked to a Guardian article, let me do the same:
My ancestral lands tell the UN to bugger off on global immigration
“Slovakia will not support this United Nations pact under any circumstances and will not agree with it,” Pellegrini told reporters in Brussels after the summit where EU leaders approved the agreement on Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc...................................After Hungary, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Bulgaria, Slovenia https://www.euractiv.com/section/future ... 1543212316
Polish PM says Europe cannot defend itself Polish Prime Minister Says U.S. Is Only Real Guarantor of European Security
By Maciej Onoszko
November 25, 2018 11:36 AM MST
Most European leaders twitter their fingers and talk about a future EU army. But nothing is happening.
Plotting to kill a head of state is not a protest it is a terrorist crime.
Really? Any head of state?
So if someone plotted to kill Kim Jung Un, Bashir Assad or the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they are "terrorists"? Do you know the origin of that word, terrorism, by any chance?
And no, that doesn't mean that plotting to kill a democratically elected head of state is ok or legitimate. But slapping "terrorism" on any threats to the state is not just ridiculous.
What's more ridiculous is some media insistance on regurgigating the bullshit about it just or primarily being "nationalists" and "right-wing racists" who oppose Macron's reforms. It's dishonest guilt by association excuses for letting fewer and fewer extremely rich people take more and more out of the wages of the majority of Europeans. Since you linked to a Guardian article, let me do the same:
Maybe you didn't read the thread?
We were talking about France. When I used the word "state" that is who I was referring to. A plot to kill the head of France is definitely an act of terrorism.
I won't bother responding to the rest of your post seeing as it doesn't seem to relate to anything I wrote.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
When the French truly decide it is time to kill some government figures they bloody well do just that and then some. I am unconvinced.
Not sure why you say that.
There were several failed assassination attempts on De Gaulle. Most famous of which was the far right plot fictionalised in "the day of the jackal".
There was also a failed attempt on the life of president Mitterrand.
Without going to Google, I can't actually name an assasinated French President from the last century.
Seems to me no Western country can match the US for assassinating it's leaders.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
I don't like high diesel prices either. I understand the reason for high taxes on fossil fuels though and I'm not about to start rioting about it.
I just make sure I don't waste fuel so I have to buy as little as possible.
European cars have always led the way in terms of fuel efficiency which is a positive effect of high fuel prices.
It's hard being green.
The French on the other hand treat rioting as a national pastime and will get to it "at the drop of a beret".
They were setting fire to lorries full of sheep not long ago to protest the high price of lamb.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
