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2002-12-10 Europe

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Posted by Steve 2002-12-10 12:06 pm|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 From a National Review story on Carlo...
The Italian media have reported that Mr. Giuliani was a beggar with a criminal record, but that day he was a masked anarchist about to hurl a fire extinguisher at the head of a cop. Two days after his death the anti-globalization protesters proclaimed him a martyr to their cause, "a model of compassion and commitment."

Posted by Fred 2002-12-10 13:30:39|| 2002-12-10 13:30:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it is time for Webster's to come up with a new definition of martyr.

ie. one dead dumbass!

Posted by Anonymous 2002-12-10 14:25:01|| 2002-12-10 14:25:01|| Front Page Top

#3 The shots fired by Placanica were obviously in self-defense. Placanica was in the back of a police jeep, together with a seriously wounded colleague (the jeep was actually there to pick up the wounded man). Placanica himself was poisoned by tear gas.
While maneuvring to evacuate the small square, the jeep got cornered by Giuliani and his unwashed ilk. Note that the other police officers, who were supposed to cover the retreat of the vehicle, abandonned their position, thus leaving the three men in the jeep to their fate.

The pictures of Giuliani hurling the fire extinguisher at Placanica and his wounded colleague at the back of the jeep are well-known. But at the meantime, Giuliani's friends were smashing a wooden or metal beam through the right-hand side window of the vehicle in an attempt to crush the driver. So Placanica had every reason to believe that those punks were going to kill all three of them, and so he shot.

What did these leftist idiots expect ? That a police officer gladly accepts to gift of a fire extinguisher, to protect himself against the molotov cocktail that might be thrown in the jeep afterwards ?

Posted by Peter 2002-12-11 07:42:00|| 2002-12-11 07:42:00|| Front Page Top

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