McAnarchists Protest McDonald's in Germany

German anarchists, lefties, anti-globalization and the all-around smelly crowd from a part of Germany called Kreuzberg are calling for McDonald's not to build a restaurant in their exclusive, trendy area:

The site's fence already is smeared with obscene anti-McDonald's graffiti, and the company has hired security guards to watch over it.

"Kreuzberg is a very alternative neighborhood," said Philipp Raschdorff, a spokesman for the group. "That's what distinguishes the area."

Organic grocers and twentysomethings in dreadlocks and sandals still coexist with Turkish kebab stands and immigrant women in headscarves pushing baby carriages. In the late 1980s, it was the scene of clashes between police and left-wing protesters every May Day.

The company found the average age of students in the area, which includes a vocational school, was over 20 years old.

And says one of the anti-this and anti-that crowd:

The local member of parliament, top Green party lawmaker, Hans-Christian Stroebele concedes there is no legal way to stop the restaurant but says: "I fear McDonald's, with all its media power, will tempt the students not to eat their sandwich and apple for lunch," he said.

First off, I'm not so sure anti-globalists and anarchists actually eat sandwiches and apples, that seems far too normal. I'm also not sure that kabobs are that much better for a person that McNuggets.

What the smelly crowd seems to hate more than anything, is change. I'm not the biggest fan of change myself, but I understand that with change comes progress (most of the times).

The smelly crowd doesn't understand that, or if they do, they don't care for progress. What is so idyllic about a small community of squatters and lazy kids that hang out, eating kabobs and chewing on organic foods? The answer is nothing is idyllic about it, it's only idyllic in the brains of short minded people.

The great thing about free choice is that if people hate McDonald's so much, they won't eat there. Without a profit, McDonald's will shut down, that's the way things work. No vegetarian is going to change their eating habit by giving up a plate of freshly mowed grass clippings and a glass of goat milk for a Big Mac and a large fries.

Plus, the average age of the community is 20. Twenty year olds aren't little children, they are adults. They are old enough to make their own decisions. Anarchists need to understand that.