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Did you say "yoots"? (Danish rioters)
« on: February 18, 2008, 01:49:59 PM »
Reuters disgraces itself again...

Link:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/02/18/reuters-danish-rioters-merely-youths

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Reuters: Danish Rioters Merely 'Youths'
By Ken Shepherd | February 18, 2008 - 11:30 ET

The British newswire that strenuously avoids calling a terrorist a terrorist also has trouble identifying the radical religious motivations for rioters setting Denmark ablaze.

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Roger Kimball of Pajamas Media has the story:

Consider the opening of this story from Reuters about the latest rash of rioting in Copenhagen:

Danish youths riot for sixth night [Update: make that the seventh straight night]

Gangs of rioters set fire to cars and garbage trucks in northern Copenhagen on Friday, the sixth night of rioting and vandalism that has spread from the capital to other Danish cities, police said on Saturday.

Kimball link:
http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/rogerkimball/2008/02/17/that_root_youths_and_why_reute_1.php

(lines I can't get out of my head now...)
Judge: “Did you say 'yoots'?”
Vinny: “Yeah, two yoots.”
Judge: “What is a 'yoot'?”
Vinny: “Oh, excuse me, your honor. Two youths.”

"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

- Ayn Rand
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1826