AUSTRIA'S POLITICAL establishment joined 30,000 mourners in Klagenfurt on Saturday to bid farewell to far-right populist Jörg Haider in a virtual state funeral, laden with pious pomp.
Haider (58), governor of the province of Carinthia for almost two decades, was killed a week earlier after losing control of his car while driving drunk at twice the speed limit.
Haider's widow, Claudia, flanked by daughters Cornelia and Ulrike, thanked mourners packed into the old town's narrow streets for their support.
"It gives comfort on the long, stony road of mourning," she said.
Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer said during the funeral, broadcast live on national television, that Haider was an "extraordinary man who left no one cold, positively or negatively".
Apart from Saif Gadafy, son of the Libyan leader, a close friend of Haider, no prominent foreign guests attended the funeral.
All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Ghaddafi's Son Attends Haider's Funeral
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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One can only wonder what the bond between them was? ;-) Was it their mutual dislike of Israel, or was it something far different?
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