Saturday, November 05, 2005
The appeasement reflex
Still, this was a startling admission of the weakness of France's government:
"All we need is one death and things will get out of control," said Jean-Christophe Lagarde, mayor of Drancy.
Mayor Lagarde, there has been one death. "Youths" burned a crippled woman alive. What he meant, of course, is that France cannot tolerate the death of a "youth." It must be nice to be untouchable according to proclamation. What, pray tell, is going to put an end to this?
UPDATE: Oops. My ass has been fact-checked. A reader pointed out correctly that the woman who was burned alive actually survived the attack. It was only attempted murder.
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By 
Counter Trey, at
Sat Nov 05, 03:03:00 PM:
"What, pray tell, is going to put an end to this?"
Villepin's action plan for the suburbs that he said he'll try to deliver by the end of the month, of course.
Bwahaha. Reality is funnier than the best fiction.
By Final Historian, at
Sat Nov 05, 06:07:00 PM:
The incompetence of the French leadership can be staggering at times. For all of the crap assigned to the French military, historically it has always been their leadership which has been problematic. Once again, La Republique Francaise must stumble along under the leadership of fools and cowards.
By 
, at
Sun Nov 06, 06:07:00 AM:
"Perhaps the French nation is out of moves, and will have to give them what they want -- whatever that is "____What they want is jobs, a reasonable income, some respect, and good housing.
By TigerHawk, at
Sun Nov 06, 01:36:00 PM:
I wasn't aware that employers were looking for rioting experience.
OK, that was a tad snarky.
Respect will come, as it always does, with economic success. Economic success will come when the people in these ghettos help themselves. Jobs are hard to come by in France because of its very sticky labor market. Fortunately, people who are lawfully in the European Union can live and work anywhere, so none of these people are confined to France by anything other than their economic circumstances.
So how to break out of this? As with all immigrant groups everywhere, they need to start at the bottom. They need to take jobs that nobody else will have, work obscenely long hours at those jobs or studying to better themselves, and eventually, over the span of a generation or so, they will better themselves and demonstrate that they are of high character and deserving of respect. If the French do not then bestow respect, it will be because they French do not (generally) confer respect to people who lift themselves up by their bootstraps. But of course, everybody knows this. So wanting respect from people who do not give it even in the face of manifest accomplishment is a foolish mission, and certainly does not justify violence and arson.
I was not aware that their housing was particularly bad. From the descriptions I have read, it is no worse than the typical American tenement.
By , at
Sun Nov 06, 10:04:00 PM:
This Sunday night, the intifada went balistic and 30 police offers got shot of whome 2 where heavily wounded.
But also the Turks let them selves hear. In German magazine 'der spiegel' it is reported that Turkisch primeminister Erdogan connects the riots with the Turkisch admission. The Turks their admission, Europe peace...
By , at
Mon Nov 07, 01:47:00 AM:
"The “youths” do not blame the French, they despise them."| The Brussels Journal
The very best column on the situation. Really hits the US MSM
for the dribble that is their and the BBC's analysis of the situation.
A must read - Austin Bay provided the original link.
Regards,
Larwyn
Click here: Show Them Who Is the Boss in France | The Brussels Journal
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/444
Show Them Who Is the Boss in France
From the desk of Paul Belien on Sun, 2005-11-06 19:19
Here are today’s headlines in Belgium’s (only) Sunday newspaper De Zondag. Page One: “No Sign of Revolt in Belgium Yet.” Page Five: “Violence Moves Towards Belgium.” It almost sounds like a weather forecast, anticipating the onslaught of a hurricane that is inevitably coming.
What is happening in France has been brewing in Old Europe for years. The BBC speaks of “youths” venting their “anger.” The BBC is wrong. It is not anger that is driving the insurgents to take it out on the secularised welfare states of Old Europe. It is hatred. Hatred caused not by injustice suffered, but stemming from a sense of superiority. The “youths” do not blame the French, they despise them.
READ THE REST - A MUST!
