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Striking Brussels firemen soak cops, PM office (VIDEO)

Published: 10 February, 2012, 18:43


Firemen spray water outside a cabinet meeting during a demonstration in Brussels. (Reuters / Yves Herman)

When the Belgian government decided to pour cold water on the country’s firefighters and increase their retirement age, the men struck back with the same method…literally.

 
16 COMMENTS
Stoudemire February 10, 2012, 19:04 quote
+48

Go get'em, Brave Firefighter Brothers, they shall not prevail and you will be victorious show those Pigs what they deserved to be slave to the government rather then try to quitting those dirty jobs and help the protesters to tear the regime down especially the NATO Criminal Rats ever since the start of the end of Cold war.

Eurasian February 10, 2012, 19:34 quote
+47

Smart! The OWS´s should take a good lesson. Actions brothers & sisters, ACTIONS… and not only seating there and waiting for mercy from the filthy rich criminals.

tides February 10, 2012, 19:37 quote
+63

I am a peaceful person and hate to see this, but we need more of this. The global redsitribution of wealth from the many to the few has got to stop. Cops have to stop protecting criminals in political positions.

Starlight February 10, 2012, 22:47 quote
+8

I believe there should be a general age of 65 set out as retirement age, regardless of gender. However, there are certain types of work where a person above the age of 58 to 59 could be a hinderence and even a danger to themselves and others. Therefore persons who do such jobs as firefighting, building, military, rescue, anything where the person must have to react quickly and efficiently should not be forced to work until they are 65 or 67, and in my mind 67 is pushing the limit. There could be better means of re-employing a person into a lighter form of work from a certain age, such as a firefighter etc after they reach 58. Generally a person after they are retired find themselves in a strange limbo after a working life with suddenly nothing to do. Many will go and find some sort of work just to stay active, but not firefighting.

Re Eurasian February 11, 2012, 00:11 quote
-16

why don't you worry about the filthy rich Criminals in your own country.

ivanthedestroyer77 February 11, 2012, 00:28 quote
+17

Fellow Slaves,

You know what would be nice? It would be nice if you slaves learned to value your labor and lives. Then, if You would all Strike, in Unison, so the Rich could do our Work. We could watch them all Fall Flat on their Faces! And, then, there would be respect for all people.

If You people want peace, then you are cowardly serving your masters, they will rob you blind and make you turn to desperate means for your survival, while they live in opulent luxury never doing a days work. If you do not instill discipline in the Upper Class, they will bury the Middle and Lower Classes.

These Firemen are Right. Additionally, they should stop service to the Banks/Government.

I have a relative in Italy, they ( the government) are Taxing her teachers pension of $2000.EU -Monthly- by 250.EU. That’s Stealing from widows and orphans to pay the BANKS? You know, Comrades, at some point You need to Respect Your Dignity! These Facts are not being covered by the major news networks. Not even RT, SAD.

 

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!

Mick McNulty February 11, 2012, 01:44 quote
+11

They are raising the retirement age in Britain by two years, and if there are twenty million workers that means an extra forty million working years just to stand still. 

Where did this vast amount of money disappear to because we haven't had it?

Angel of Death February 11, 2012, 01:52 quote
+42

Well, well, well, I had a vision in a dream, that all of these Zionist Bankers were all rounded up and were taken to the Bastille in France, and one by one, their heads were cut off......
It was a dream, how close will it come to reality? Well, it is up their subject Armed Forces and Police to stop following their orders, then we would see how "Powerful" these parasites are....
NO New World Order!!!!!!

Eurasian February 11, 2012, 02:28 quote
-7

Re Eurasian wrote in #5

why don't you worry about the filthy rich Criminals in your own country.

____________________________________________________________

Which is?

And if I tell you in which country I live you may get surprised beyond believe - in western Europe ;)


Just George February 11, 2012, 07:45 quote
+33

Social ostracision of criminals is an excellent form of protest.

I am a health professional. If a banker or politician came into a place where I was working, I would not help them. If they want to destroy society, then I would not help them stay healthy.

If I were a firefighter and one of their mansions were burning down, I would not put the fire out.

If I were a plumber and a bankers toilet was blocked, I would not fix it, and let them suffer in filth.

You get the picture. You don't help those who are trying to harm you.

RMB February 11, 2012, 19:17 quote
+5

Police thugs getting a taste of their own medicine - can there be anything greater than that?

john wright February 11, 2012, 19:40 quote
+9

I love it. it needs to happen in America.

sbugiardo February 11, 2012, 20:35 quote
+8

Epic firemen are epic.
During protests we should always come up with all sorts of creative, harmless  and funny ways to overcome unjust police blockades, e.g. bringing jumping mats to jump over 'em, throwing cooking oil to make them slip and them push them, trapping them in big nets, etc. :-)
There biggest problem in those cases  is often troublemakers among the protesters give protests a bad name, so no protest should take place without the protesters agreeing on stopping anyone who uses violence or vandalism against anyone else.
Peace out.

Matthew/Boston February 11, 2012, 22:20 quote
+9

You won't be seeing this in America. The firefighters and police stick together. It never ceases to amaze me what protesters in other countries (outside the USA) get away with. Molotov cocktails thrown at the police in Greece recently. Assault, or even try to assault a police officer in America. You will be badly beaten, wind-up in court, and land in jail licking your wounds. That is if you don't wind-up in the hospital on life support.

Concord February 11, 2012, 22:39 quote
+2

We need to make sure that everybody is housed and fed. And we need to recognize that the world resources can provide for only 2 billion people living the lifestyle of the middle class; that leaves nearly 5 billion people without resources - and those people are gonna get MAD.

 

If we want a peaceful and relatively painless transition to a sustainable lifestyle for all we had better figure out that we must make the resources of the planet the commonwealth of the people and that food and shelter are the right and first priority of us all. If we put the needs of all of us above the right of some to claim ownership and hoard land and resources while denying those things to others we will make it through this rather comfortably.

 

Derek V February 11, 2012, 23:51 quote
+8

Concord wrote in #15

We need to make sure that everybody is housed and fed. And we need to recognize that the world resources can provide for only 2 billion people living the lifestyle of the middle class; that leaves nearly 5 billion people without resources - and those people are gonna get MAD.

 

If we want a peaceful and relatively painless transition to a sustainable lifestyle for all we had better figure out that we must make the resources of the planet the commonwealth of the people and that food and shelter are the right and first priority of us all. If we put the needs of all of us above the right of some to claim ownership and hoard land and resources while denying those things to others we will make it through this rather comfortably.

 

^^^ overpopulation is a myth^^^. overpopulationisamyth.com .
..and if that is true, it would seem wealth/ resource distribution and management be the issue. IMO nationalize all resources. add value locally & export.. and yes please with the commonwealth of the citizens and their well being..

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