SHOT PROTESTER DESERVED WHAT HE GOT

[Guest guest]

[NY Post Editorial 7/22/01]

 

THE death of 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani has given the anti-globalization mob an excuse for launching further spasmodic attacks of violence. Yesterday's attackers wore black armbands mourning the young man's death.

 

 

The world leaders gathered in Genoa aren't clarifying matters by pulling a long face and pretending this idiot's demise was something to be taken seriously.

 

 

If another Giuliani, Rudy, were among the G-8 honchos hunkered down in the besieged Italian city, there's no doubt that he'd tell his comrades to can their crocodile tears.

 

 

Rudy would be alone - and dead right - in saying good people ought to instead worry about the police and the ordinary folks whose lives are threatened by the anarchist berserkers.

 

 

I'm sure his mama loved him, but Carlo Giuliani deserved what he got. Video footage shows him in a terrorist mask attempting to hurl a fire extinguisher through a window of a van full of armed carabinieri.

 

 

Unsurprisingly, they shot the fool.

 

 

Wouldn't you? In the middle of a riot, when a masked aggressor is attempting to strike you in the head with a heavy metal object, you point your gun and you shoot the SOB. It's not a complicated issue.

 

 

Unsurprisingly, some of the Euroweenies leading cheese-eating, surrender-socialist nations reacted like countless chancellors of American universities, who rolled over for the militants in the 1960s.

 

 

"One hundred thousand people don't get upset unless there is a problem in their hearts and spirits," moaned the president of (where else?) France.

 

 

Oh, boo hoo hoo. Here we go again, with people who know better trying to "understand" the kids, and be tolerant of what common sense says ought to be condemned outright: anarchic street violence in support of a dubious cause.

 

 

To be sure, the anti-globalization movement has something of a point. One sympathizes with those who worry that political and cultural sovereignty is being stolen by businessmen and bureaucrats.

 

 

But we Westerners live in democracies, where these issues can be worked out peacefully, through reasoned discussion and debate. These violent protesters, though, are using valid concerns as a justification to engage in destruction for its own sake.

 

 

These bourgeois white radicals, these spoiled-brat trustafarians flatter themselves that they're striking a blow for justice when they throw a chair through a Starbucks window, or trash city centers where law-abiding people make their living.

 

 

Despite their political pretensions, these creeps are no better than murderous soccer hooligans, and they deserve to be treated as such.

 

 

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dreher@nypost.com

 

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Much like the assassination of JFK, Watergate, and the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, the 2000 presidential election is sure to become a conspiracy theory gold mine. Over the next few tips, we'll reveal our favorites among the more esoteric Election 2000 views already gnawing at the fringes of political thought. Today's theory: the Green Party's Ralph Nader won the election, but he was denied the Oval Office due to widespread computer fraud. Seems that the "Republicrats" became concerned about a late surge in his popularity and tampered with the brand of software used to compile 2/3rds of the nation's electronically-counted votes.

Keep Watching The Bhuta BhAvana Ballot Box,

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Or he's busy packing his weapons to go kill women & children in Iraq - - - from a distance.

He'll never see their faces. Neither could he face them.

Neither can they see him.

But 12 witnesses can.

6th Canto - they never miss a bullet.

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Or maybe he is headed there to pick off Dr. Taha(AKA Dr. Germ) the famed leader of Saddam's biological weapons program who has been very much out of sight from the inspecters.

 

We can be sure though that she is still very busy. So many germs so little time.

 

Random, if you get her in your sights please please don't hesitate. Remember center mass then the head.

[Guest guest]

Cowboys Are Welcome In Kurdistan

February 2, 2003

By MARY ANN SMOTHERS BRUNI

 

As American troops move into the Persian Gulf and George W. Bush wags an angry finger at Saddam Hussein, a nervous euphoria is descending on Iraqi Kurdistan, the enclave in northern Iraq protected by the "no-fly" zone and governed by Iraq's rebel Kurdistan Regional Government.

 

The feeling is very different from that in Europe, where the American president is constantly being admonished for his "cowboy" tendencies.

 

"Occupy us - please!" a Kurdish man on the street demands of an American visitor. Indeed, the main fear of Iraqi Kurds I spoke to is that Washington will not attack.

 

"Iraqi officials warn us that Bush is all talk, that America will not invade," says Ismet Aguid, a former Iraqi foreign service officer. "But we remain optimistic."

 

During their 12 years of freedom, the Kurdish, Turkmen and Assyrian inhabitants of this land have rebuilt most of the 4,000 villages Saddam's troops bombed and bulldozed into oblivion. They have also created at least the semblance of democracy, complete with elections and a representative parliament.

 

They have laced the country with highways and transformed Sulaymaniyah, Irbil and Dohuk into modern cities with multiple newspapers, traffic jams and omnipresent Internet cafes. The people are warm and well-fed, thanks to the Iraqi-U.N. oil-for-food program.

 

But with Turkish tanks hovering above Dohuk, an Islamic militant group shelling Halabja and Saddam's troops patrolling their southern border, Kurdistan residents realize all too well how fragile their beautiful new world is. That's why they hope that the "top secret" American airstrip near Sulaymaniyah will be put to use soon.

 

Not only Iraqi Kurds but also Iranians, Turks and even Baghdadis are literally betting that American victory will be swift and total. Speculation on Kurdistan's currency has caused it to spiral dangerously out of control. The local currency - the 1991 Iraqi "Swiss-print" dinar - trades at 7.6 to the dollar today, up from 15 just last June. The currency is disappearing from circulation, bringing the market and much-needed U.N. reconstruction projects to a standstill. The dinar travels to traders on the Iranian, Turkish and Iraqi government borders. The 12-year-old tattered and taped currency notes that stay home all too often disintegrate or end up sewn into mattresses.

 

A young friend explains: "We buy the `Swiss print' for the future - like Europeans buy 2006 World Cup tickets. When America frees Iraq of Saddam, each original Iraqi dinar will be worth $3 again."

 

And what does he think backs these dinars?

 

"The oil fields of Kirkuk," he answers.

 

But, of course, speculators will be out of luck if President Bush doesn't deliver soon. Mam Rostam, who led victorious troops into Kirkuk during the 1991 Kurdish uprising against Saddam, says Bush can do just that. "We talk to Iraqi troops on the front daily," he said. "They sell us guns. They won't fight for Saddam." Rostam fears only two things: chemical weapons and the possibility that "America will use us and leave us."

 

The Kurds, world-class survivors, are planning for such worst-case scenarios and working to stock emergency camps inside their borders. But they lack protective materials, medical supplies and the trained doctors who would be needed in case of chemical attack. Abudel Razaq Faeli, minister of relations and cooperation in Sulaymaniyah, fears that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and others will use the $37 million granted for emergency relief to set up camps outside Iraq. "How can someone hit with chemical weapons move all the way to Iran?" he asks.

 

Still, a strong vein of opinion about war - and its timing - is represented by 83-year-old Jalal Sideek Bawari, who lives in a mountain village near the Turkish border. "Now is better," he says.

 

The oil-for-food program has given Bawari's village a road and a new school. Before they had the road, villagers were self-sufficient. They planted or tended everything they ate. They carved their forks and spoons out of wood. But they were invincible.

 

He applauds the comfort and varied new products that the "market economy" brings. But he worries about what will happen if the Kurds' Western-backed experiment fails. "We will die," he worries. "Kurds have forgotten how to live on our own."

 

Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, author of "Journey Through Kurdistan" (University of Texas Press, 1997), is in Iraq writing a book on the development of Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991. She wrote this for The Washington Post.