Al Jazeera’s Myopic Look Back At May ’68 “Events!”
I almost laughed out loud this morning, but didn’t, since at 7.30am I’m not really into ‘loud…’
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….esp. after a few drinks last night with my most welcome holiday weekend visitor from overseas!
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…when the presentrix of a retrospect on the May 1968 ‘events’ in France displayed typical Al Jazeera objectivity.
Speaking of the revolting ‘students’ then, she said they were motivated by the ‘suffocating conservatism that held sway under President Charles De Gaulle.‘
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In fact, they were ‘motivated’ by infantile marxist ingratitude for the excellent educational facilities provided them by the terribly cruel country they lived in. Nobody had bullied them into universities, but they inexplicably imagined that these groves of academe somehow belonged to them.
That was when all this ‘occupation’ nonsense began.
That photo above shows one of the rabble-rousers most notorious at the time, ‘Danny The Red,’ aka Daniel Cohn-Bendit, whose very presence in France was a cause for curiosity, exacerbated when, in later life, he became a prominent politician…in Germany!
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But his choice of party then confirms what we often say, that Reds shape-shift very easily into Greens.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the German Greens’ pedophile problem
Where I was then, at a grand old university in the United Kingdom, we had nothing so riotous as Paris suffered, but there were still ‘dilettante revolutionists’ about, who tried to arrogate to themselves whose voices might be heard and whose might not.
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We confronted these prototype Red Nazis, the political grandfathers of the Antifa scum we see today…
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Shock Poll – Most UK ‘Students’ Infected With Red Nazism?
…and we put them in their place.
As indeed did De Gaulle, who, as the Al Jazeera witter-woman had eventually to admit, called for a counter-demonstration, which was massive…
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People Power- on 30th May, 1968, Parisians showed support for De Gaulle
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…then called an election and his regime of ‘suffocating conservatism’ was returned to power ‘with an increased majority!‘
Hank Borland and 
Pamela are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Pamela 22:39 on May 2, 2018 Permalink |
A pleasant and educational break from your usual topics, and I can remember that insane time, though I was not a university student then.
So many of us who were not, or not yet, privileged to enjoy higher education ourselves, were shocked at the behaviour of those who were.
If the authorities then had expelled the uncouth spoiled brats who invaded and occupied property not theirs, many years of disorder might have been nipped in the bud. ,
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Hank Borland 23:29 on May 2, 2018 Permalink |
I liked that idea you had a while ago, put Mary-Jo on the ten dollar bill that was being introduced.
That would have reminded everybody what a gutless and heartless monster Ted Kennedy was.
A killer just as much as Lee Harvey Oswald, and Oswald had a lot of people covering for him too.
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