04.10.06
from freedom fries to freedom fires
so…. we mock them as "surrender monkeys" because of our self-congratulatory mis-telling of World War II events…
then, dig up this image to ridicule them for not supporting our Iraqi invasion…
but when it comes to actually standing up to one’s own government, and fighting for one’s rights, it would seem that the French just took our asses to school, as massive student protests overthrow a law that would have allowed companies to hire anyone under 26 for up to two years, and fire them without cause or explanation… the students, and unions, saw this as bullshit, called it such… and took it out like the trash…
we have also been schooled on standing up against election fraud by the Ukranians, who not only fought against the Russian’s rigging of their 2004 Presidential election, but just spanked the candidate they did elect in their recent parliamentary election for not making good on his campaign promises….
Liberia reveals itself to be centuries ahead of U.S. in terms of gender politics. This nation, formed by freed ameriKKKan slaves in 1820 during the "get the hell back to Africa" movement, boasts the first elected female head of state of any African nation… any bets on how many decades until we move past our own national machismo, and can claim the same?
yet somehow, we persist in representing ourselves as "leaders of the free world"… somebody out there, please write in and explain what that means anymore…