You don't need to play the teacher here. It's a protest, yeah, and part of it is clearly wrong (the violent part). Not for the ideal behind it, which I fully agree with, but for the way it has been done. It aims at the wrong people, the rider, in the wrong way, harming them, while doing nothing against the people who organized it.
Again, where were them when the race was shaping out? Nowhere to be seen or heard, not surprisingly.
They're not there for the cause, they're there for the violence, as they were there for the manifestation against the high velocity train system, and on and on. These people have no business in civil protests. They hide behind a colored flag (and more often than not, behind a hood), and periodically ruin all of the protests organized by the peaceful advocates and groups.
I'm familiar with them, cause I've shared the streets and squares of plenty of manifestations with them before.
You wanna tell me how offensive Lega can be to italian people? I'm from the north of Italy and have three Afro-italian cousins and a bi mother. You tell me how offensive they are to me?
Since you're so familiar with the issue here, you tell me: what has been done before to stop Lega from organizing this race in the first place? I'm talking petitions, I'm talking letters to Presidente della Repubblica to take a strong position on the case, I'm talking discussing the issue in the Parliament and maybe preventing them from organizing it.
Have you heard anything about it? Opposition parties at their best, as always, doing nothing when they have the chance to (and be aware there were flags of the PD and other opposition parties seen among the protesters today).
Read up: http://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/10-09-2011/padania-chiodi-puntine-strada-802821103470.shtml
Cyclists, in most cases, have no business in deciding wether they will race here or there, especially if they're young and from a continental. The team choose, they simply do their job. And if they don't, they might just not have a contract next year.
And even if, say, they're stupid enough not to understand the consequences, or supporters of the party, it's not right to punch em or putting their lives at risk. If you don't feel sorry for this, it's your problem. Just don't make it sound like it's the right thing to do for a human being.
Again, where were them when the race was shaping out? Nowhere to be seen or heard, not surprisingly.
They're not there for the cause, they're there for the violence, as they were there for the manifestation against the high velocity train system, and on and on. These people have no business in civil protests. They hide behind a colored flag (and more often than not, behind a hood), and periodically ruin all of the protests organized by the peaceful advocates and groups.
I'm familiar with them, cause I've shared the streets and squares of plenty of manifestations with them before.
You wanna tell me how offensive Lega can be to italian people? I'm from the north of Italy and have three Afro-italian cousins and a bi mother. You tell me how offensive they are to me?
Since you're so familiar with the issue here, you tell me: what has been done before to stop Lega from organizing this race in the first place? I'm talking petitions, I'm talking letters to Presidente della Repubblica to take a strong position on the case, I'm talking discussing the issue in the Parliament and maybe preventing them from organizing it.
Have you heard anything about it? Opposition parties at their best, as always, doing nothing when they have the chance to (and be aware there were flags of the PD and other opposition parties seen among the protesters today).
Read up: http://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/10-09-2011/padania-chiodi-puntine-strada-802821103470.shtml
Cyclists, in most cases, have no business in deciding wether they will race here or there, especially if they're young and from a continental. The team choose, they simply do their job. And if they don't, they might just not have a contract next year.
And even if, say, they're stupid enough not to understand the consequences, or supporters of the party, it's not right to punch em or putting their lives at risk. If you don't feel sorry for this, it's your problem. Just don't make it sound like it's the right thing to do for a human being.