Wednesday December 1, 2010

FRENCH, ITALIAN, GREEK YOUTH RIOTING TO PROTEST RIOTING

Rome, Italy- Students here took to the streets overnight to protest the growing number of protests in their country. Armed with rocks and connolis, the Italian youths clashed with the city's riot police as well as other rioters who were already protesting on the streets because of a government proposed plan for its citizens to actually work for their comfortable lifestyles. Alfonzo Spaghetti, a local merchant caught in the midst of the confrontations, described the scene: "It'sa giante cluster-fucka of bitching anda moaning!" Police eventually subdued the typically lethargic crowd using batons and marina sauce hoses. Three police officers were treated at the local hospital for minor wounds while 2 protesters reported having their feelings hurt. Today's latest riots come on the heels of a season in which Europe has seen its whiny population take to the streets more frequently to have its voice heard. Paris, France, in particular, has become known as the "City of Riot Police Light." Hurling molotov cocktails and baguettes, French students earlier this month clashed with heavily armed police squads to express their displeasure at everything not going their way. This group of protesters was soon joined by another group of violent rioters who, after seeing that their streets were filled with dissatisfied citizens, took to the streets to riot in protest of the protest riots. Jean-Luk Pierre, a student at L'ecole d'Etudes in Paris described the crowds motivations: "Ve are le sick and le tired of the governmont asking uzz to be productive citizens! Paying monie to go to school? What a le joke!" Many analysts attribute the increase in public unrest to changes in social and occupational expectations as a result of the economic crisis, with governments hoping for citizens to rationally understand that everyone has to accept difficult choices in the face of harder times. Unfortunately, that has not been the case throughout most of Europe. Dr. Peter Gassling, of the American Institute for America, described these recent flare ups as a result of something he called the "whiny bitch effect," which is defined as occurring "when a pompous, lazy, little shit doesn't get what he wants and decides to break other people's things and blame his or her problems on somebody else rather than deal with them themselves." The tenacity of the rioters has left many American historians wondering where this European sense of fighting for the way of life they believe in was during World War II. Other historians have pointed to the fact that it is better to allow the whiny little bitches to set a car or two on fire every now and then than to have a repeat of Tienanmen Square.