Thursday, June 07, 2007

Scattered Protests Reveal Uncertainty

Photo -   Jan Přerovský/THE PRAGUE POSTCuriously, the Bush is Eeeevil US media didn't report this one.
Despite pledges of mass protests, only several hundred opponents of the planned U.S. missile base in the Czech Republic briefly gathered at key sites in Prague Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

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Monday evening, some 200 protesters, most organized by the Communist Youth Union, waved flags and chanted slogans in front of the U.S. Embassy but promised mass demonstrations like those that filled Wenceslas Square with 2,000 people May 26, never materialized.
With no mass uprising of the proletariat, Soviet Russian president Vladimir Paranoid must be --- seething.

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