14443: Anonymous: Re: 14438: Vishnusurf: Re: 14434: Anonymous Post re: Aristide's real evel of popular support (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

    Paying people to protest might even be a very common system... French
Republic began doing so: The 1790 July the 14th "Fete de la Convention" that
France celebrates every year (and not the overtaking of the Bastille Prison
as commonly believed) is recorded like a success with an important unanimous
crowd attending the celebration... Only in 1989 for the the Revolution
second century did the scholars discover archives proving that the crowd was
paid to attend this spontaneous popular celebration of freedom and Reason
Goddess, and national unity... If I am not wrong, we could easily imagine
that a neutral citizen or a tourist, or an Englishman passing by Paris this
day of July in 1790 would have felt kind of the same way anyone can feel in
Port-au-Prince those days when "The People"  demonstrates in the streets and
"ap kenbe beton".