Chile Police Violently Supress Student Protests
Here's a picture I'm filching from Reuters:
Now, if it were the fashion police who had mowed her down with high powered water cannons and liquid teargas, then I'd be willing to look the other way.
Unfortunately, the cops attacked because she and hundreds others were protesting the education reform bill which, typical, isn't a reform at all.
Read the article about the persistent protests against passage of this bill:
Water cannons come out if you honk a horn it's nothing new, it's painfully routine, but of course Chile isn't Third World, it's all developed and stuff.
These protests against the education so-called reform bill have been going on for like ever including strikes so students can't study (unless they organize sessions on the sly), that was in May, not sure how long the strikes lasted.
Now, if it were the fashion police who had mowed her down with high powered water cannons and liquid teargas, then I'd be willing to look the other way.
Unfortunately, the cops attacked because she and hundreds others were protesting the education reform bill which, typical, isn't a reform at all.
Read the article about the persistent protests against passage of this bill:
...medics tended to one protester lying on the capital's main artery, the Alameda, who suffered a head injury after he was doused by a water cannon.It's still unclear whether or not he was sporting a mullet.
Water cannons come out if you honk a horn it's nothing new, it's painfully routine, but of course Chile isn't Third World, it's all developed and stuff.
These protests against the education so-called reform bill have been going on for like ever including strikes so students can't study (unless they organize sessions on the sly), that was in May, not sure how long the strikes lasted.
posted by Chileno @ 3:05 PM
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You are a riot.
"It's still unclear whether or not he was sporting a mullet."
Ha! It's funny because it's true. One mullet is too many, so that leaves Chile with an infestation.
"There is something really funny about the sight of an angry young woman being hosed into the gutter by a tank"-Jeremy Clarkson, English car TV show presenter.
I gave myself a mullet recently in an attempt to blend into the local population. Unfortunately, I just ended up looking like a foreigner with bad hair. I lasted 8 days before I realised I had an important work meeting and had to cut it off.
There's more about this here
http://diario.elmercurio.com/2008/07/09/nacional/nacional/noticias/F1EC4B14-D203-4C8A-884C-6BF0C99F51E2.htm
Seems like some students were a bit naughty too...
Wembley
"Naughty" is taking money from the CIA in the early 1970's to help subvert democracy. But sure i'll read the emol piece when i have time.
As expected this "El Mercurio" article is so completely one sided so as to render any understanding of the conflict incomprehensible. -- Nothing to see here, just naughty people behaving badly --
Why were the teachers on strike for a day? Just how atrocious is the Chilean public educational system that students and teachers feel the need to protest in this manner? "El Mercurio" doesn't believe that the readers deserve an explanation.
It's hardly unusual for marginal elements to misbehave during a protest (remember the riots that erupted during the IMF meetings in Seattle?). The right wing media uses these incidents to try and dismiss the protests by focusing on the violence and using guilt by association.
People ought to know better than to cite "El Mercurio" as a source of information. Even FOX news has a higher standard than this so called "newspaper" whose only purpose has been and continues to be the dissemination of propaganda.
>>>Nothing to see here
El Mercurio = Officer Barbrady
Hey ldr2008, don't worry about Wembley, the remarkable intelligence of his past comments prove he's quite representative of the Mercurio's demographic.
Fox news is a nasty smear machine that hardly tries to be subtle but they do try somewhat because they have to in a drastically more free and diverse media market than the one El Mercurio operates in.
It might be excusable for Wembley to fall for the Mercurio's crap hook line and sinker if he were 70-something living in rural Chile but sadly he's a young - middle age man living abroad and should know better.
Is it usual for "newspapers" in the US to give a complete potted history of each story they run? That generally doesn't happen here in the UK, where it's assumed that readers are capable of remembering the run-up to stories.
Wembley
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