French Riots, coming soon to Germany, Belgium and a slum near you.
Posted on November 7, 2005
***UPDATE***
France’s Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is a bloody genius, and possibly the only frenchman left in France that has a pair hanging big enough to speak the Truth.
From Reuters comes this Gem of Honesty sparkling in the sputtering light of Freedom left in France;
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is the only top politician saying France’s “republican model” falls short and that the U.S. or British “melting pot” approach could help break the cycle of minority exclusion, unemployment and revolt.
Did I tell ya’ or what?
HONEST GENIOUS!!!
Yahoo News is reporting that rioting is spreading from France to Germany and Belgium. Overnight a 61 year old man died of wounds he received in a beating during the riots.
So far police in France have been unable to quell the rioting which broke out 12 days ago when two boys hid from police in an electrical substation and ended up electrocuting themselves. One man, Moussa Diallo, a 22 year old unemployed French-African man said “”This is just the beginning,”…”It’s not going to end until there are two policemen dead.”
Arson attacks on the police in France have increased, with the police finding a makeshift “firebomb factory” in Évry, south of Paris. Approximately 150 bombs were being constructed, with one third of them being finished. Several minors were arrested in that incidence.
Gunfire erupted overnight and 10 policemen were shot, though none seriously. Rioting reached the heart of Paris last night and the damage being done to automobiles and buildings, both public and private, continues to escalate, with the police appearring helpless to end the violence.
It is my opinion that the French are getting what they deserve here. They have spent years saying that the U.S is full of barbaric people and that capitalism is wrong, while they have embraced a socialist system that is doomed to failure, and now, when the immigrants living there NOT having the possibility of moving up in the social strata become angry and riot, the soft headed and soft hearted French cannot even make them stop.
I wish to remind everyone that in a socialist society the true measure of Freedom, socio-economic mobility, simply does NOT exist. That is why these people are angry. They have no chance of moving up from the slums they live in, and the majority of french society looks down their long gallic noses at anyone not french.
The French have made their bed. I am enjoying watching them toss and turn in it.
***UPDATE***
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has given the OK for local officials to impose curfews to quell the riots. AND he has said that 9500 more police will be deployed.
Really?
I wonder what will happen to people that ignore the curfews?
Do the french have a version of the ACLU?
If so, why aren’t they yelling loudly about the curtailing of civil liberties that a curfew imposes?
While I am asking questions about Villepin’s actions and the consequences for not following curfews, I am forced to wonder if the local officials even have the power to create curfews by themselves?
Or does France now have such a centralized government that even something as simple as a curfew needs the permission of the Prime Minister?
BTW, These curfews will not work.
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I’m French (excuse my language)and I want to answer your message.
The situation in my country is much more complicated than a simple opposition between socialism and capitalism. These notions are obsolete now, even here in “old Europe”.
I advise you to have a closer look on the news because it is too long to explain.
Shortly: we are, as you, as country of massive immigration since ages. But with the end of colonisation, lots of Africans came. During times of growth, my country needed them as workforce, and they needed it in hope for a better life.
But this nice story ended with the growth in the 70’s. The prospects of progress in our society disappeard but the immigration didn’t stop.
Nowadays, these people are living in our suburbs built quickly in the 60’s (sharp demographic growth plus massive immigration plus lack of houses destroyed during the last war).
So, if you want a french point of view, listen to me. I can see 3 main problems:
1- an economic problem: high unemployment in France, and indeed especially among foreign community (what about in the US?)
2- the conception of the city after WW2 and the lack of a serious policy for the city.
3- a governmental problem. Since 2002, my country is led by a very conservative government. It has suppressed lots of social helps for these suburbs. And above all, our interior ministry is excessively provocative towards the immigrants (for exemple, a few months ago he told he would wash the suburbs with a Kärcher, that people living here were scum…
Think of it, please.
Lenaic, I appreciate the comment, and wish to point out some serious failings of the system France, and indeed all of Europe has embraced.
You ask about the unemployment rate in the U.S. It runs about 5 percent. America is a capitalist country,a nd the socio-economic mobility here in the U.S. far outstrips the socio-economic mobility of the citizens of any other country on the planet.
While your government may withhold social services for poorer people, that is NOT the cause of the unrest. It is the mindset of these people that led to the rioting now occuring. They have come to believe that is IS the governments job to take care of them, and they believe that the government OWES them a certain lifestyle.
I see no problem with these alleged “poor” people getting on the internet, which just shows how poor they aren’t. While the poor in America have been likened in lifestyle to the “lower-middle class” of Europe, the “poor” in France seem to have no problem getting online to complain and keep up blogs.
Go here to read about the unsustainable economic that the Europeans have painted themselves into the corner with.
At the heart of these riots are failed EU policies of political correctness and appeasment coupled with socialism, fanned by groups of people that refuse to assimilate and pose more of a threat to France, and Europe today than Hitler did in ‘39.
As far as Sarkozy saying that the slums needed to be cleaned with a power hose, I think that would be a good start, but to do teh job correctly they would need to wash everybody aboard a ship and send them back to their homelands.
We are facing the same kind of threat here in the Southwest U.S by immigrants from “latin-American” countries. The only difference being that the America Citizen won’t stand for roving bands of hoodlums destroying their property.
Love Live the Second Amendment.
liniac, I saw a forecast today that France may well be partitioned, the way India was, within the decade, and that such may be the underlying goal of the Islamisists:
http://frontpage.americandaughter.com/?p=85
Could this happen? Or worse, are there any alternatives left?
The alternatives, Bic, are for the french to admit their failed policies, deport people by the boatloads, loosen restrictions on business and go with a more capitalistic, free market economy, but that will not happen, as the french =seem to be of the mindset that it is better to fail and fall into the history books as a once great nation rather than admit that the U.S. and Britian have a better system and strive for greatness once more.
Muslims, I am learning, are a danger, refusing to assimilate anywhere they immigrate, and eventually rising up in protest until they get their own lands.
Bic, thanks for the link in the above comment. It opened my eyes a little more to the dangers of Islam, muslims as a whole, and the futility of socialists policies such as france has been following for the last few decades.
The ACLU adheres to these failed policies, pushing secularism, degeneracy, and socialist ideals as “equality” and “progress”.
It isn’t working in France, or anywhere else for that matter, and it won’t work here.
Does anyone have the testicular fortitude to start shooting these
thugs ?
Maybe this will be enough to wake the world up to the REAL agenda is Islam, but knowing how pathetic the West is these days they’ll try appeasement first.
I don’t feel sorry for people that will not defend themselves.
Whatever happens, if the U.S. ends up having to bail the French out…again…it will not be appreciated…again.
That is exactly why we shouldn’t. They didn’t step to the plate when they were needed, so why should we. We have seen what the frogs are made of and the invitation of oppression does not entitle them to be rescued from it.
Exactly Gribbit. We shouldn’t give the french one bit of help.
Raven over at (and rightly so) has an article where Bush is sending troops to France to help stop the riots.
The link for that news story about Bush sending in the Marines is here at Ravens and she got it from brokennewz
No. 1– the scenerio you outlined is precisely what you argue it isn’t — the difference between socialism and capitalism. Captialism works because of its promise that each citizen can be everything and anything he wants to be. The sky’s the limit. Socialism fails (everytime) becuase it’s promises are nothing more than government handouts, which encourage more need and greater reliance on government. When the system breaks down, chaos reigns.
ScottFLA, thank you for the comment, but your claim that I am saying that the root of the problem is not socialism is not quite right, to put it nicely.
I am saying that it IS socialism that is at the root of the problem, hence this quote from me;
I wish to remind everyone that in a socialist society the true measure of Freedom, socio-economic mobility, simply does NOT exist. That is why these people are angry.
I am, in a rare fit of calm reflection, going to guess that something between my post and your comment was lost in translation.
Thank you for agreeing with me.