Anti-Sarkozy protests in Paris, students strike

REUTERS ^ | May 9, 2007 | Gerard Bon

[kcar]

So what doesn’t happen when students go on strike?

[steveyp]

France has usually been governed by prostitutes.

[burzum]

The students stage a strike! Oh wow! I guess that means that they won’t be taking their free education for a couple of days. How the French Republic will survive this, I do not know! How can electricity still be made, food grown, airplanes landed, or trash picked up without these students in class? It is the end of society as we know it!

[ronnie raygun]

Sure these liberal cry babies are angry. For the first time in thier lives they will have to get off of public assistance and get a job! Ah conservatism it brings people closer together and brings out the best in people!

[CalvaryJohn]

Royale with cheese!

[jrushing]

So what doesn’t happen when students go on strike?

anti-Sarkozy militants clashed with other students...
scores of activists prepared to occupy a lecture theatre overnight.

I think that they will "occupy a lecture theatre".

Sounds scarey!!

I bet they'll give some wild lectures tonight. Glad I'm not there.

[kcar]

Oh! Heavens to Murgatroid!

[bboop]

I don’t understand what’s so bad about shutting down the University. So? They don’t attend. So what? They are probably getting free tuition. France saves money, the professors get a rest, the kids are not interested in studying. Who gets hurt?

[hinckley buzzard]

I can see why the students would be torching cars.

They know no better. There is not one European university rated in the top 100 universities worldwide. French universities are state run intellectual sh*t-houses for the educationally deficient. These jerks belong in McDonald's, supersizing les Fries, not wasting time pretending to be educable.

[aimee5291]

“Sarkozy seems to be doing a fine job so far, the leftist radicals are losing their heads, and the College Administration seems to be on board and keeping the Annexe open.

Has their been a John F. Kerry sighting at the demonstrations yet? “

LOL ...maybe Sen Kerry was there.

[mtg]

Do these idiots think that if they go around destroying the country, they’re going to get a re-vote?

[Tintin chez les soviets]

I hope sarkozy will karsherize the red scum !

[donkey slayer]

I was thinking the same thing?? How can students Strike, are they producing or providing a service that can inflict harm to the economy or discomfort the public at large? Only a Socialist in France could think striking against a free public education could really accomplish anything. If I was Sarko I would call them on it and charge them 100 euros per day to get back in..

[donkey slayer]

Sarko should pull a Reagan on them. “You got one day or you are out”..

[Long Island Pete]

Do these idiots think that if they go around destroying the country, they’re going to get a re-vote?

How soon before the Stalinists here in America follow their lead?

[SunkenCiv]

"It is totally unacceptable that an extremist minority, showing their scorn for democracy, should try to oppose the enactment of the president of the republic's program," he said.

The majority of the students missed their chance -- it would have been an ideal time to go explain things to these fascist jackasses, using bricks and baseball bats. Well, maybe not baseball bats, not sure those are widely available...

[Atlantic Friend]

“There is not one European university rated in the top 100 universities worldwide.”

Not exactly. Here’s the 2004 Top 50, for example.

1 Harvard Univ (USA)
2 Univ Cambridge (UK)
3 Stanford Univ (USA)
4 Univ California - Berkeley (USA)
5 Massachusetts Inst Tech (USA)
6 California Inst Tech (USA)
7 Columbia Univ (USA)
8 Princeton Univ (USA)
8 Univ Chicago (USA)
10 Univ Oxford (UK)
11 Yale Univ (USA)
12 Cornell Univ (USA)
13 Univ California - San Diego (USA)
14 Univ California - Los Angeles (USA)
15 Univ Pennsylvania (USA)
16 Univ Wisconsin - Madison (USA)
17 Univ Washington - Seattle (USA)
18 Univ California - San Francisco (USA)
19 Tokyo Univ 1 (Japan)
20 Johns Hopkins Univ (USA)
21 Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor (USA)
22 Kyoto Univ 2 (Japan)
23 Imperial Coll London (UK)
24 Univ Toronto (Canada)
25 Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign (USA)
26 Univ Coll London (UK)
27 Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich (Switzerland)
28 Washington Univ - St. Louis (USA)
29 New York Univ (USA)
30 Rockefeller Univ (USA)
31 Duke Univ (USA)
32 Univ Minnesota - Twin Cities (USA)
33 Northwestern Univ (USA)
34 Univ Colorado - Boulder (USA)
35 Univ California - Santa Barbara (USA)
36 Univ British Columbia (Canada)
37 Univ Maryland - Coll Park (USA)
38 Univ Texas SW Med Center (USA)
39 Univ Texas - Austin (USA)
40 Univ Utrecht (Netherlands)
41 Vanderbilt Univ (USA)
42 Pennsylvania State Univ - Univ Park (USA)
42 Univ California - Davis (USA)
44 Univ California - Irvine (USA)
45 Univ Paris (France)
46 State Univ - New Brunswick (USA)
47 Univ Southern California (USA)
48 Karolinska Inst Stockholm (Sweden
48 Univ Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh (USA)
50 Univ Manchester (UK)

[Codename - Ron Benjamin]

The four or five serious science or tech students that were still left and had projects to finish :(

[Badeye]

Thats where I’m at on this as well. give the guy a chance.

[Cyber Liberty]

That’s what using the Metric System will get you....