Posted on 10/21/2010 2:20:56 PM PDT by Libloather
Riots Spread From France To U.S. As Strikes Continue
Submitted by anon on Wed, 2010-10-20 04:37
Rioting in France over austerity measures has spread across the Atlantic Tuesday night, with small groups of youths forming sporadically throughout Brooklyn and causing disturbances.
The youths were seen building barricades, setting several cars on fire, and skirmishing with police, ostensibly in opposition to cuts to social services in France and the United States. The protests come as countries around the globe are adopting IMF-style austerity programs and cutting social services amid the global economic recession in attempts to right their economies.
The demonstrators last night carried signs saying "We won’t pay for their crisis," as they chanted, "From Paris to Brooklyn, Nous Sommes Tous Des Casseurs." The skirmishes were described by NYPD as fairly mild, though eyewitnesses describe seeing several cars set ablaze in the rioting.
One demonstrator who asked that his name be withheld said, "We want to see a global rebellion against a future of capitalist crisis, so we are making it happen tonight ; we want to show the youth in France that they are inspiring us and they should keep rioting."
Several residents said the groups of youth were handing out copies of "The Coming Insurrection," an anonymously-written book from France made famous when its supposed authors were arrested on terrorism charges in France and became known as the Tarnac 9. When the book was released in English last year, an impromptu book party was held in a New York Barnes & Nobles, which was reported in the New York Times.
The United States has not seen massive protests like the ones currently taking place in France against raising the retirement age, but many states have levied severe cuts to social services since the financial crisis began, including cuts to higher education that sparked occupations of university building throughout the U.S. last year.
Whether these riots in Brooklyn are an isolated occurrence or will spread throughout the U.S. as the situation in France becomes more serious remains to be seen.
People who riot because the government is shrinking are not “anarchists.”
.308 & .45 here.
“I can find ZERO news stories backing this up...”
Uh, I don’t know whether it is genuine or not, BUT it would be a mistake to not see in France our own future when the dollar/economy collapses.
People in the U.S. will neither starve nor freeze to death quietly. Expect violence and be prepared.
And you wonder why the Bammy administration will not allow the importation of “Dangeous gang weapons, like the M1 Garand”
See - all your fault!
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But of course!
LLS
One demonstrator who asked that his name be withheld said, "We want to see a global rebellion against a future of capitalist crisis, so we are making it happen tonight ; we want to show the youth in France that they are inspiring us and they should keep rioting."Thanks Libloather. You could be right, hoax.
Pepper spray? Shoot them! A few dead anarchists will save lives in the long run.
Brooklyn has a large Muslim increasingly Islamist population living side by side with Orthodox Jews. A conflagration waiting to happen.
Personally I think the Thompson spray is far more effective.
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