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ANTI-SARKOZY PROTESTS SUBSIDING, SAYS FRENCH INTERIOR MINISTER

PARIS May 9, 2007 (AFP) - French protesters clashed with police and burned cars for a third night after the victory of president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy but the interior minister [Francois Baroin] said Wednesday that the violence was dying down.

Some 200 cars were torched and 80 people arrested overnight, fewer than the 365 vehicles set alight on Monday and the 730 cars ignited on Sunday in the hours following the rightwinger's defeat of the Socialist Segolene Royal.

M. Baroin has underestimated the tenacity of privileged white college-aged youth resisting the injustice of fair elections and the vagaries of adult life thrust upon them.

ANTI-SARKOZY PROTESTS IN PARIS, STUDENTS STRIKE

PARIS May 9, 2007 (WaPo/Reuters) - French police arrested more than 100 demonstrators and hundreds of students went on strike at a Paris university as left-wing protests against president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy continued for a fourth night on Wednesday.

Some 300-400 demonstrators gathered on the Boulevard St Michel in the Latin Quarter of Paris, ostensibly to protest against a march by far-right supporters.

Shouting slogans like "Sarko fascist! The people will have your hide!" [ « Sarko, facho ! Le peuple aura ta peau ! » ] and "Police everywhere, justice nowhere!" [ « Police partout, justice nulle part ! » ], the demonstrators were cornered by hundreds of police close to the nearby Luxembourg Gardens.

A police officer at the scene said 118 arrests had been made by 9.30 p.m. (1930 GMT).

The left-wing "demonstrators/protestors" riot because police prevent them from spoiling a demonstration by right-wing demonstrators. Ah, justice nulle part !

In a separate demonstration, hundreds of students at a Paris university staged a strike to protest at Sarkozy's plans to reform France's higher education system and blocked access to an annexe of the Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne university.

... After a long, heated debate in which anti-Sarkozy militants clashed with other students enraged at action that could threaten their approaching examinations, scores of activists prepared to occupy a lecture theatre overnight.

The tragedy of the left is who can take them seriously. These are not France's neediest calling out for social justice or a simple bowl of soup. These are France's most privileged, most coddled, most infantilized Peter Pans. Their parents' taxes have paid for their privileges. Any takebacks are plainly unfair to maman et papa. Student assistance becomes a subsidy becomes an entitlement, un droit acquis, a fundamental essential of the human person. Without free tuition forever life has no dignity, humanity is diminished, one must find a job.

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