Outrage over ‘Art Performance’, “desecrating the graves to the sound of drums to commemorate Verdun: the honour of our ancestors was violated”

The “performance” organized by the Leftists was condemned for being in poor taste and disrespectful. President Hollande, at least should have known better, but the 3,400 brain dead French and German teenagers who took part in the “performance” simply followed the lead of others who should have known better. The youth will make wonderful comrades when they are led to the disaster that is socialism.

Some 3,400 French and German teenagers ran across the graves of the war dead at the Verdun memorial where they pretended to play fight with each other to the sound of drumming. French politicians from the Front National to the Republicans expressed their outrage at the performance, Le Figaro reports.

The performance, choreographed by German film maker Volker Schlondorff, was meant to symbolize the battle of Verdun but many felt it made a mockery of the war dead. Leader of the Front National Marine Le Pen wrote on Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the performance: “at Verdun, the ‘show ‘ is jogging among the tombs. Indecent, really indecent”.

Her comments were followed by those of her niece, rising star of the French right, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen who condemned the ruling Socialist Party in particular, tweeting: “desecrating the graves to the sound of drums to commemorate Verdun: the honor of our ancestors was violated” and then later :”I feel great contempt for the Socialist leaders who organized this event.”

The German reaction to the event wasn’t positive, either. Veteran journalist Thomas Schmid wrote that Sunday’s anniversary was “a naive simulation of death”.  “Cemeteries are not just any place, they are neither sports fields or places of entertainment,” he said, and blamed Mr. Hollande’s and Ms. Merkel’s attempts at engaging young people in the history of the battle for the distasteful stunt. Criticizing the mock fighting, he wrote: “The fake wrestling of casually dressed athletes had nothing to do with the atrocious misery of the soldiers who died there a hundred years ago.”

Ignorant and disrespectful youth have been raised throughout the world over the last few decades, with thoughts only to their own entertainment and simplistic beliefs and disdain for anyone or anything that they cannot relate to. Perhaps, as some have said, the world really needs another world war to make today’s youth focus on something bigger than themselves, and more important than their pampered, insignificant lives. While that is not something we should hope for, it does make one wonder what will happen to this world with so many naive, self-centered, clueless children growing to adulthood and preparing to become the future leaders of the world.

Source: breitbart.com