Time Recursion

I’m still a little shaken after watching videos, browsing through pictures and reading news and reports from yesterday’s student protest. I still cannot believe that a horde of drunken students and pupils (most of them even underage!), largely without a proper clue as to the reason of this gathering (except of course of getting drunk and having a day off), did so much damage to the Parliament, hurt many policemen who bravely stood in their way and left a myriad of garbage lying around.

If it wasn’t obvious to some people before, it’s painfully evident now that there is something awfully wrong with these youngsters, and our society as a whole, which permits riots like this to happen. I wouldn’t say anything if this would be a protest against a dictatorship, or against a law or some other kind of enforcement that would hinder our human rights, or in any other way endanger our rights and lives. But this? This was a protest against a law that would actually benefit many students (both life/injury and payment insurance, recognition of work experience, earlier start of pension accumulation) and allocate more money for scholarships! Yes, it has it’s downsides, but they mostly affect the Student organisations of Slovenia and those that are now reaping big profits from the field of the Student work. And what’s more, the law hasn’t even been wrapped up yet and sent into the National Assembly for vote! The talks with the Student organisation of Slovenia were still open!

Going out, shouting “f**k the government”, littering Ljubljana and throwing objects at the police and the Parliament and even setting fires for something like this is just insane and stupid. It throws a bad light on the student population as a whole, discredits those that try to make some progress with peaceful protests and talks and renders all the previous efforts meaningless. Not to mention that now everybody is talking only about this shameful event and not about the very issues the protest was organised for.

And seriously, making so much damage to the parliament? For Christ’s sake, it’s only 19 years since we’ve achieved our independence, and kids of those who fought for our freedom go and deface the very symbol of it?