RADICALS FOR RULES. The anti-globobos in Spain continued their protests even after the EU summit had ended. According to CNN, the paella commandoes "threw Molotov cocktails and fired small incendiary devices at police and broke windows of banks and other businesses in downtown Barcelona."
They also carried banners bearing the slogan: "Against A Capitalist Europe". There is no such thing, as Sweden's representative complained during the summit, pointing out that it costs four times as much to establish a business in Europe as it does in the US.
Which is precisely what our idealistic young anti-globs are fighting to maintain. What do they want? Over-regulated and burdensome taxation regimes, run by hidebound bureaucracies!When do they want it? NOW!
These anti-freedom monkeys are strange inheritors of the 1960s protest tradition. Hippies hated rules (or so they said); the anti-globs want rules for everything. They're a whole different breed of idiot. Witness how protests have changed over the past 25 years:
1967: Give peace a chance
2002: Give police states a chance
1967: LSD is good
2002: Genetically modified food is bad
1967: Ban the bomb!
2002: Ban the burger shops, shoe makers, crop scientists, coffee stores, trade, business, and commerce!
1967: Think global, act local
2002: Think local, act anti-global
1967: Expand your consciousness
2002: Throw rocks
Remember the film "Joe"? It was Susan Sarandon's first movie. She played a hippie whose junkie boyfriend got iced by Sarandon's uptight businessdude father. Mr Conventional American then forges a hippie-hating partnership with violent, foreigner-hating, uneducated, blue-collar Joe, played by Peter Boyle.
If the film were to be remade today, the counter-culture characters would be in Joe's corner.