Sunday, June 17, 2007

Wine-growers prepared to use violence

Radical Basque separatists, Hamas, Al Qaida and now... French wine-growers. The BBC reports that a groups of masked Frenchmen called "the Crav," who look a lot like the shadowy jihadis kidnapping soldiers and journalists, are prepared to use violence if the French government doesn't meet its demands.

The question remains for wine lovers: does consuming wine from the Languedoc region mean giving into the terrorists? Or are these guerrillas freedom fighters, preventing excellent wine from being watered down by global competition?

1 comment:

j.renee said...

I say drink on! It sounds like the "flower bombers" of Toronto. No demands were made, they just bombed the city in the dark of night with packages of wildflowers that would sprout as soon as it rained.