Nidra Poller on French casseurs

What if this dazzling movement is more cartoon jihad than Mai '68? Socialist Party leader François Hollande, all bluster and bite in l'Assemblée Nationale, pokes his finger at Dominique de Villepin and demands immediate withdrawal of the pernicious CPE. The situation, cries Mr. Hollande, is EXPLOSIVE! The Conference of University Presidents sent a delegate to implore the prime minister to suspend the abrasive CPE and initiate a six-month period of dialogue and reflection, for the sake of apaisement social.... Appeasement? Labor Union and Student Union leaders demand unconditional surrender. Repeal the CPE or else!

And those are the moderates. They are not taking hatchets to public property. They are simply asking for respect...respect for their religion of employment security.

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EHESS, the elite center of postgraduate sociology, citadel of the ideology that drives the students who protest the evil CPE, was invaded last Monday. Taking advantage of an open-door policy for all who wished to discuss the nefarious precarious work contract, a crowd of anarchists, underdogs and assorted outlaws slipped in and kicked everyone else out. Those abstract victims of ultraliberalism that EHESS loves to study materialized, and expropriated the expropriators. Dismayed professors carrying trendy Apple computers rushed out of the elegant premises. When the police finally evacuated the squatters five days later, they found the building sacked, defiled, covered with filth and graffiti: Death to Democracy, F -- You, and the inevitable Jewish star.

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