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Cristina Fernandez blasts police: “I don't believe in coincidence nor in contagious events”
Marking the 30th anniversary of the return of democracy to Argentina, President Cristina Fernández referred to the wave of lootings across the country and police force protests, and stated that “they were no coincidence”, during a rally from the Government House in Buenos Aires on Tuesday evening. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIt's a conspiracy by the opposition.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0“They are planned and executed, with military precision.”
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the actual military in Argentina could take lessons from the looters.
I don't think I have ever heard anything in Argentina having ”military precision”.
Like many people who grow too fond of power, they blame others for any ills that befall their country.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0In Cristina's mind she cannot be wrong - ever, so therefore this MUST be a conspiracy by the opposition.
However, thing can happen coincidentally - hence why we have a word for it - coincidence - and thing can be 'contagious'.
If she doubt that, then all she needs to do is look how rapidly the USSR folded. It started in East Germany, then spread like wild-fire (or a contagion) to other countries held under the Communist yoke.
Ignoring the problems aren't going to help. Blaming other people isn't going to help.
But for far too long, they've buried their heads in the sand, ignoring opportunities that might have actually stemmed, and reversed the tide, sticking to their political ideals and ignoring the reality around them. And now they've arrived at this sorry state.
Is it too late to turn things around? I don't know. What I do know is ignoring the problem and blaming others isn't a solution, it will just compound the problems.
“I am not naive, I do not believe in coincidence nor in events that are contagious”.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 07:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0So if one event follows another, then she neither believes that the latter is related to the former, nor that the latter is unrelated to the former. So when she banged her head, the preceding fall was neither relevant nor irrelevant. Well that's cleared that up then.
The hypocrisy of Christina.. Celebrates democracy but deals to remove it from Falkland islanders.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I am not naive,“
Dec 11th, 2013 - 09:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0The helecopter is fuelled and ready
”I do not believe in coincidence“
like the number of former Argentine presidents who are in jail
”nor in events that are contagious”
I'll be off shortly to a proper democracy with the suitcases of US dollars...
Cristina blames the police for her own failures .
Dec 11th, 2013 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 010 years of lowering education standards , addicting people to hand outs instead of a work ethic , making inflammatory and divisive speeches , failing to control inflation , paying murdering montoneros more in pensions than the police receive in salaries , to say nothing of making graft and corruption the only goal in politics .
This will not end well .
still,
Dec 11th, 2013 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0at least afterwards and when the dust finally settles, she can thank them for their support for her polices, like she does with everyone else lol...
“These events are not coincidental because they seek to wear down the values of democracy”. Difficult to see how these events could seek to wear down the values of democracy when she has worn those values down to virtually nothing. When you openly buy votes, isn't that wearing down democratic values? How does using your position to “steal” public land square with democratic values? How come the Kirchner's “private wealth” multipled by 10 in the seven years between 2003 and 2010? Where's the €55 million sent to tax havens?
Dec 11th, 2013 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe it's just a coincidental attempt to get rid of a bunch of crooks?
She will blame the opposition, while failing to observe that most of these people are being payed with our tax money. “Military Precision”? It only looks like that because the police 'are not' and 'have not' been competent enough to earn the money they are asking for.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe these certain leaders that are doing things with military precision should be running the military.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@10 And there isn't broad a culture of incentive, be it through livable salary or just plain old respect from the community, encouraging solid people to “protect and serve” as they are in “neo-liberal” democracies. The less-than-best go into the profession, predators and incompetents fill the gaps and the incentives for good people just ain't there. I'm sure they're are good cops all over the world but those in rotten precincts have the drive and morale stripped out of them.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for military precision. Jiminy Christmas! It's freakin' called ORGANIZED CRIME for a reason! And it doesn't even have to be that. As soon as the lowest of the low find out that there are no cops on the beat, it's time to go “shopping.” And you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know “No Cop, Don't Stop.”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/12/riot-singapore
Dec 11th, 2013 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/12/riot-singapore
Is this the peace and the “military precision” the Anglo humans make consistent mention of, as evidence being far superior to their Argentine human counterparts?
The above is top-rated information, that the Anglo governments do not desire to be diseminated, and I have been awarded through “higher sources”.
Human disturbances (which in one human language is writen as “R I O T S”, in the Anglo jewel Singapore? In the name of Nibiru how could that even be?
Fake interpreters in the most televised funeral of an ex-president? The gesticulations of this impostor have now reached Voyager 1, and are leaving the Human's solar system, which is a puny 24 light-hours in span.
Playing the wrong anthems and hoisting the wrong flags at the most international sporting event in this particular star system? Those painful images are now half way to Alpha Centauri.
I'm not saying it was Anglos, but it was Anglos, again. May the Annunaki mercy their ignorance towards the Argentine humans.
I would agree with CFK. Of course it's no coincidence. It's a consequence of the cause and effect created by the Argentine corrupt political classes
Dec 11th, 2013 - 03:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@14
Dec 11th, 2013 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Created by the Argentine corrupt political classes”
But tell us, how do you REALLY know it was the Argentines, or even “humans”?
Yeah this has nothing to do with the inflation rate and EVERYONE but Govt insiders and cronies getting poorer.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if her extensions will hold when she's being dragged through the streets.
Probably not
It would appear that the Anglo humans believe that the answer to all the ills of this particular star system is “stop inflation”.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hypothetically lets assume the Argentine humans got inflation down to 0% tomorrow. Forget the impracticability of achieving this (for humans, that is!), how would that resolve the issue of pay.
The most likely outcome, is that these argentine humans on protest would not get payed at all.
That's the grand solution proposed by the non-argentine humans?
It would appear that we need another “intervention” from “outside forces” (and I mean “outside”), to nudge us to a new galactic era.
Here you are Josey, and it isnt from that Communist rag, The Guardian, its from a news source you can trust:
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25315210
Doesn’t say what she as head of state, and leader of the country, intends to do about the situation.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Which of course she had nothing to do with creating, after however many years in power.
@4 Redrow
Probably fell over as a result of being “pissed up”, so if no one heard the fall, did it make a sound?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21027176
Dec 11th, 2013 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would have thought given the comments by the Anglo humans of 830 “pounds” wage for argentine human police officers being pittance, that the UK human police officers would earn minimum 4 or 5 times as much (4000-5000 “pounds” per month).
Turns out they earn 1.500 “pound”, this in a country with far more expensive housing and other costs.
Maybe the UK police should, instead of going on strike, call upon higher forces. “They” have given us a guiding hand in the past.
Cristina Fernandez blasts police: “I don't believe in coincidence nor in contagious events”
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She doesn't believe in democracy , law and order or justice either , but doesn't mention that in her monologue .
“”“They are planned and executed, with military precision.””“””
Dec 11th, 2013 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0well, that counts out Argentines organising the stuff then....
My answer to the looting problem.
Dec 12th, 2013 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRSk6iLwK_g
@23 Klingon
Dec 12th, 2013 - 01:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Remind me never to piss you off.
One helicopter firing, five bringing up more ammunition.
Dec 12th, 2013 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.. and a few thousand locals pickin up the copper cases for recycling.
Dec 12th, 2013 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0........
but CFK's right. The Salvador police strike produced a HUGE leap in theft, muggins and homicides.
Opportunistics - the new branch of social sciences.
CFK and HM Queen Elizabeth 2 have similar problems.
Dec 12th, 2013 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/10513920/Queen-angry-at-police-officers-eating-her-Bombay-mix-court-hears.html
No,
Dec 13th, 2013 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0CFK is DOING the stealing, QEII is being stolen from.
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