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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
France’s wine terrorists use bombs to ‘protect’ their vineyards from competition
Yet more astonishing news out of France, this in the form of a Time Magazine story headlined “France’s Wine Terrorists.”
The story details the capture and apparent confession of a man who was using bombs as a means to protect his region’s vineyards from global competition — until his tactics apparently blew up in his face. Literally.
The French: Love their wines. Hate their wine laws. And sure don’t understand their politics — or the penchant for domestic terrorism among a handful of their countrymen.
