Posted on 04/04/2009 8:18:23 AM PDT by boughtwithaprice
STRASBOURG, France - Black-clad protesters attacked police and set a customs station ablaze Saturday on a bridge linking France and Germany that served hours earlier as the backdrop for a show of unity by NATO leaders.
AP photographers saw other protesters storm a nearby Ibis hotel, setting fires and pilfering alcohol from its bar.
Stacks of old tires were also set ablaze, unleashing thick plumes of black smoke that could be seen from across the river. Near the bonfire was a sign welcoming visitors to Strasbourg.
First lady Michelle Obama and other spouses canceled a visit to a cancer hospital out of concern for security, the French president's office said. Some 1,000 protesters were staked out near the hospital they were to visit.
Some of the protesters say they want an end to war and call NATO a tool of Western imperialism. Others simply appear bent on causing chaos.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
This time.....just a customs building and piles of burning tires.
They must be losing their touch.
Leni
Young Marxists wanting communism to give them a living.
oxi-nato?
Are you saying that the people who stormed that hotel and created general chaos are our friends? You should choose your friends more carefully. I have no respect for those so-called “protesters”.
Socialism is working so well in Europe isn’t it?
Personally - I wouldn’t give a damned what they wore...
Threaten me or mine and expect to die immediately and without fanfare - dressed or naked...
Makes no difference...
It’s the behavior - not the style that counts.
Some of the protesters say they want an end to war
So they want an end to something that has existed since man began and regardless of their desire will continue to the end of man....
Hey ofyou have no reallife and the time I guess wasting it doesn’t matter.....
You are right this vermin meets one disaster and they will rethink their Lives.
No one mentioned demonstrations and violence. No one mentioned the burning of the police station and the hotels and no one noted that the police had to stop an additional 1,000 or so protesters from crossing the bridge over the Rhine to join in the pillaging. Also no mention of the fact that the trip to the cancer hospice center by the first ladies had to be canceled because of threats of violence from the 1,000 protesters that were waiting there for them.
Instead all I hear is some commentator gushing about how much like the Kennedy's the Obama’s are, and how now that he's president everyone wants to be an American. I nearly gagged.
Has anyone ever thought of shooting these communists/anarchists and jihadists? Worked in Cambodia according to a governor I had dinner with.
Rioters are rioters and if they are violent, kill them.
But wait, I thought these people stood for peace. They should form an alliance with Islam—the religion of peace.
OK, now you got me thinking!
The internet has changed the media mythology.
And you and I and others know that Commander Zero got zero troops for throwing the “arrogant” US under the bus.
Words mean nothing in Europe. They all talk beautifully and do nothing.
Just losers who have no idea what they want out of life other than to cause destruction. There are a lot of them up here in the Northwest, as well.
D’oh! Now I get it.
Of course who can forget oxi-nato the most insane anti-Turk Greek guy. But I didn’t catch on to your post here. Why him with this story?
Ohhhh...nato in his name, like the article. I always thought, for the few seconds I gave it, his name might be Greek, or something else. Soo, what does oxi mean in Greek? Easy to find on the net. No Nato.
Took me a while, thanks!
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