Italy. I love a good fight. And it was a fight. The flashy billionaire (Berlusconi) versus a quiet professor. A heated mud slinging, insult throwing, scandal plagued dust up, in which Romano Prodi, (the challenger) has emerged victorious. But did the Italian people win? http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=1497&&&edition=2&ttl=20060412013200 Does the government represent the people? Are the people governing, or are they being governed? I sense a feeling of helplessness, where the changes needed, will be side tracked by bitter fighting between the parties, paralyzing the country. One Italian, lamented with vigour, and suggested suicide was the answer, if the faint hope he felt for the future of his country expired. ( I think the comment got deleted, as I could not find it 24 hrs later ) It seems there is a widening gap between the classes, and the common people feel they are being left out of the process. Time will tell.
Can the people demand change? Will it happen if they cry loud enough if they push, and refuse to concede, to a government which is deaf?
yes.
France. The proletariat, ignored, helpless, desperate, and kicked once again by a government who said they knew best, rebelled. In a stunning display of civil disobedience, the common people fought back with vicious, unadulterated anger. Taking to the streets by the tens of thousands, the masses of disillusioned demanded change. And they got it. Dominique de Villepin (prime minister) withdrew the youth labour law, and humbly conceded on national television. It is appalling the government was so out of touch, so arrogant, so clueless, that there were any riots. The times we are living in now, are hard enough, but are made even harder when those of the ruling generation fail to see, and fail to remember what it means to struggle. What do we do?
Chankslee.
7 comments:
we could stand up and riot and fight against them, but doesn't that seems so old school? There has to be a new way to have our voices heard, a mature and educated way that makes others stop and take notice at what you're saying and why.
Protests and rallys seem to be null and void,, we don't get the response like we use to in the past, you just get stepped over and swept under the rug.
We seem to be as a nation desensitized to all that goes on, we must some how birth new life into people and give them understanding into what they are doing and why.
sure is quiet in here with the parents gone........;)
hint hint wink wink
cargo, i dont know where i am going either wink wink nudge?
I think it would be a good idea for people to stand up and fight maybe we would get listend too. Psorry psweet heart you are turning into psam with your view there and we only need one of him
i think sam is hiding in embarrasment because of his debacle of a blog. Hahahaah imagine him trying to pretend that wasn't him. We should call him mister run on, or he;s got the runs, or sam on the run, or socialist sam on the running nose, or the one who is too scared to is running. Tara now does have a JPEG. notice. how do you do that, i want one. On violence there is a place for violence but I think people are too secure or not desperate enough to really lash out and fight. i think people have to really be angry and effected to actually fight, and who do you fight anyways? chankslee your trivia is stupid.
well I have a blog area not that I use it at all but I got it so that I could do the previous post for this blogspot.....creat a blog and you get a jpeg! :D
as for psam he's nowhere to be seen.........must be away
I don't deserve all this abuse. But I'll tell you one thing, if I were a member of a government and the citizens of my nation were even giving the slightest thought to rioting, I'd be calling another election. How is it that any government could possibly be stupid enough to let their citizens destroy their own country because they feel that their government is unfairly controlling their lives unfairly and abusively? Why would they not concede that if their citizens are unhappy with them then it's time to let them exercise their most basic right that the world is capable of giving them at this point in history: the right to choose the government they desire for themselves democratically? It's certainly not the solution to every problem, but it's the best the world has to offer at this point in history.
In fact I'd go so far as to say that if a country's populace came to the point of dissatisfaction with their governement that they were verging on riots, then any government that wouldn't immediately call an election DESERVES to be pelted by rioters.
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