REUTERS Loud public protests accompanied the recent revelation that doctors had hired protesters for a December demonstration in front of Berlin's Reichstag.
Posted on 01/19/2007 4:21:58 PM PST by Libloather
Need a Demonstrator? Now You Can Rent Them Online
By David Gordon Smith
January 18, 2007
GUNS FOR HIRE
REUTERS Loud public protests accompanied the recent revelation that doctors had hired protesters for a December demonstration in front of Berlin's Reichstag.
A German Web site has come up a novel niche market -- renting out demonstrators for public protests. Good-looking protestors can help an organization get its political message to the public for as little as €145 a day.
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Judging by their profiles, most of the 300-plus people currently listed in the "rent a demonstrator" category are young and attractive. Potential agitators looking for support for their public protests can choose, for example, Steffen, age 22, 190 cm tall (6 feet 2 inches), "athletic" and with a shoe size of 45. He's available for gigs all over Germany, but says he prefers the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Or Manuela, who has green eyes and "very long" hair and is available within a 100-kilometer range of Berlin. Included in the extensive personal information -- which at times seems more suited to a dating site -- are skin color and "appearance type," which can be for example "European," "African," "South American" or "Asian."
All in a day's work
An Eremto spokesperson told SPIEGEL ONLINE that most of the demonstrators were "students, pensioners, or housewives," adding that the pseudo protestors are free to negotiate their own price with customers. Most seem to have settled for an all-inclusive price of €145 ($188) for six hours' work, although some can also be hired for a mere €10 an hour. Erento takes 4.9 percent of the money as a management fee, the rest goes to the demonstrator.
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"Someone should tell Cindy that she could get paid for whatever she's doing..."
I would imagine she is getting paid quite well for what she's doing. She's even got privledges with leaders of small whacko countries.
I'm quite certain that she already is getting paid. Soros, perhaps? Certainly, by now, she has used up whatever money she got from her son's life insurance.
Free enterprise at its best. Man, you gotta love capitalism!
A Rent-A-Putz company...
It's called "treason with benefits".
I thought the government employees union had been doing this for years.
Nothing new about this. Leni Riefenstahl, Adolf Hitler's cinimatic biographer used hired help for the crowd scenes in the Furher's propaganda films. Some historians who were studying the footage noticed that the same faces tended to appear in different rallies around the country.
How pathetic that so few people are interested in those causes that they have to rent people.
Aren't they just hippies?
Not a new idea... I recall putting up posters I made for "Rent-A-Rally" back at Cornell. And I even offered a "Create-A-Cause" service in case you didn't really understand what was going on but felt that urge to hold a protest.
E145 a day?
Sheesh, what a rip. Our local lefties can hire illegals and bums for a third that much (less if you pay in bootleg smokes). They're more convincing too.
An ex-pres like Carter or an MP like Galloway must run into some real dough. Even Soros couldn't afford the Hollywood asshats, good thing they do it pro bono.
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