TIME'S person of the year is the protestor

buffalopearljamfan

Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords would have been a good choice.

7RayZ

Hasn't Miley Cyrus had enough camera time yet?

Terrible dog whistles, crap and disgusting unspeakable things, not even going there.

cincybearcat

Looks like CNN picked 1 person...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/16/world/mea ... ?hpt=hp_c1

cincybearcat

MookiesLaw wrote:

cincybearcat wrote:

Anyone else tired of Time not really picking a person of the year and passing off their inability to make a decision as a decision?


The protester is not a person.

I do think it's a valid choice in spirit, but they should have chosen 1 specific protester to represent the rest.

My choice would be Mohamed Bouazizi.

Just saw this post, looks like CNN agrees with you.

7RayZ

http://www.laprogressive.com/progressiv ... -the-year/

an Ed-Op on Person of the Year.

Plus even mentions Jello Biafra.

gimmesometruth27

i love riot dog!

if you see him, you know shit is about to go down...

Greek protest dog goes global

http://news.yahoo.com/greek-protest-dog ... 20510.html

..An Athens stray dog who has become an unofficial mascot of city protests and an online sensation this week reaped another accolade by featuring in Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' award.

Sable-furred Loukanikos -- 'sausage' in Greek -- was granted his own photo gallery in the magazine's annual honours which this year were dedicated to protesters in the Arab world, the crisis-hit EU, the United States and Russia.

Widely known on the Internet as the Greek capital's "riot dog," the central Syntagma Square canine already has his own Facebook page with over 24,000 approval hits.

The Greek capital has many stray dogs and several are drawn to the noisy street protests that have been a fixture of social life even before the country was hit by a crippling debt crisis in 2009.

But protest regulars say only Loukanikos, who appeared around four years ago, actively participates, displaying fearlessness and an apparent dislike of riot police.

"He is always on the side of protesters," says freelance photographer Alkis Konstantinidis.

"He also recognises photographers and greets them during demonstrations. He stands in front of riot police and barks at them, and when they fire tear gas, he runs after the gas cannisters and bites them," Konstantinidis said.

Loukanikos is the latest in a line of four-legged Athens celebrities.

A few years previously, protest observers had also singled out Kanellos, a brown-black male who has not been seen recently.

And in the period around the 2004 Olympics, the city's unofficial protest mascot was Glyka, a black bitch trained by her owner to hold specially-crafted placards between her teeth at the head of demonstrations.













http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref ... 4342124708

7RayZ

Im a FB fan of riot dog!

MookiesLaw

cincybearcat wrote:

MookiesLaw wrote:

cincybearcat wrote:

Anyone else tired of Time not really picking a person of the year and passing off their inability to make a decision as a decision?


The protester is not a person.

I do think it's a valid choice in spirit, but they should have chosen 1 specific protester to represent the rest.

My choice would be Mohamed Bouazizi.

Just saw this post, looks like CNN agrees with you.

If one is to be singled out then he is/was the only choice imo.