Parliamentarians gone wild
A video from, of all places, the French National Assembly:
Socialists, unhappy about reform of article 13 of the Constitution (Presidential powers, by the look of things) etc etc decided to make a scene, and at round about 4 minutes in, can be heard giving a rather spirited rendition of the Marseillaise, having tired of chanting 'democracy, democracy' and milling around in front of the presiding officer.
Not though I approve of deputies acting up, it is quite moving that the protesters chose the national anthem as a vehicle of protest. Unless our parliament was attempting to scrap the monarchy, a protest rendition of GSTQ would be rather silly, frankly.
Socialists, unhappy about reform of article 13 of the Constitution (Presidential powers, by the look of things) etc etc decided to make a scene, and at round about 4 minutes in, can be heard giving a rather spirited rendition of the Marseillaise, having tired of chanting 'democracy, democracy' and milling around in front of the presiding officer.
Not though I approve of deputies acting up, it is quite moving that the protesters chose the national anthem as a vehicle of protest. Unless our parliament was attempting to scrap the monarchy, a protest rendition of GSTQ would be rather silly, frankly.
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La Marseillaise should be rewritten. It's bloodthirsty, which should be offensive to pseudo-pacifists who have no problem with Chinese public executions.
49th anniv of Orwell's death - just the sort of hypicrisy (sic) he railed against!
That is fun. Sarko wont be re-elected
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