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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16763)7/8/2000 7:54:38 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
It seems your friend Jose Bove has gotten under the skin of the "international community." (will someone please tell me exactly who that is)

An editorial in this past Thursday's Wall Street Journal sounds almost alarmist. I thought this paragraph was revealing:

By allowing his union friends and others to run riot in Seattle, lest they be less than energetic in getting out the vote for Al Gore this November, Mr. Clinton has unleashed a force that will be hard to control...The gangs that sacked Seattle are now gearing up for an assault on the Republican and Democratic party conventions.

They describe Bove's two-day trial in Millau and how prosecutors recommended only a slap on the wrist for his instigation of the sacking of McDonald's, while globalization was found guilty of heinous crimes.

They conclude by saying; Mr. Bove's name is being mooted as a potential presidential candidate in 2002, and his moral victory this weekend won't hurt. The Bakunin-quoting former hippie who only became a farmer in 1975 as a political act has shown that he understands how to manipulate symbols, fears and public opinion. Even if he doesn't run for president of France, the world should realize that it must from now on learn how to deal with this French child of Seattle.

I think they have that backward, wasn't Seattle inspired by Bove? They blame the rise of his popularity to the media's lionizing of him and Lionel Jospin's comment that his fight was just. Is Bove really seen as a Robin Hood type figure over there?
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