First post!
(I'll post the French translation as soon as I have a little more time.)
I think a good beginning for this diary is to write about the protests have have been going on in America for the past week over upcoming legislation regarding illegal immigration. Marches have taken place in New York, Boston, Chicago, and in Los Angeles they have drawn hundreds of thousands into the streets. But a detail a French reader should note carefully is the relative lack of violence. Some high schoolers in Colorado threw fists at each other, but beyond that the marches have been completely peaceful, and purposely so. The marchers knew full well that any violence on their part would annihilate the general public's sympathy for their cause. (The marchers still managed to do some impressively counterproductive things, more on that later down.)
I think a good beginning for this diary is to write about the protests have have been going on in America for the past week over upcoming legislation regarding illegal immigration. Marches have taken place in New York, Boston, Chicago, and in Los Angeles they have drawn hundreds of thousands into the streets. But a detail a French reader should note carefully is the relative lack of violence. Some high schoolers in Colorado threw fists at each other, but beyond that the marches have been completely peaceful, and purposely so. The marchers knew full well that any violence on their part would annihilate the general public's sympathy for their cause. (The marchers still managed to do some impressively counterproductive things, more on that later down.)
posted by Telemaque | 8:13 PM
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You asked on Raising Yousef who Samir Kuntar was. I was concerned that she might not allow my reply to be posted. Kuntar is a terrorist who stole into Israel and murdered a family of four in Nehariya 20 years ago. He is serving a life sentence in Israel. For obvious reasons, we are not really about to free him.
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