Well ... there you have it folks.
The INTERNET!
Let's see ... Without the internet there would be no coordinated insurrection.
Obvious solution? Ban the internet, or at least allow the UN to take it over.
Yeah ... that's the ticket.
Posted on 11/07/2005 3:18:31 AM PST by CarrotAndStick
LONDON/PARIS: In the first disturbing assertion that a European country and its capital can be brought to a halt by the massed forces of Islamist militants both within and outside its borders, French police warned there was evidence they had played a role in inciting vandals, albeit "not on the front lines."
With the tough-talking interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy warning of stiff jail sentences for the rioters, there were signs the French capital was a city under siege.
With night buses in and to some of the more remote suburbs cancelled to prevent rioters using them as soft targets, police helicopters patrolled the skies over the capital.
Sikh community leaders, who make up a small but newly-vocal and highly-visible religious minority in France, told TOI they had so far stayed away from the ongoing troubles. But they admitted the authorities' red alert on potentially troublesome immigrant youths might bring the focus closer to South Asian communities as well.
Meanwhile, Yves Bot, Paris chief prosecutor, said the hit-and-run arson attacks were an insidious "form of action that is organised. It responds to a strategy. It's done by mobile units of youths or older guys because they are masked who arrive on scooters, throw a burning bottle at a vehicle and leave."
He said it was "irrefutable" that these "are organised gangs because it's done in a way that gives every sign of coordination. In fact, one can read blogs on certain websites inciting other cities to join the movement of the Parisian region."
In what many commentators believe is the deadly downside of the 'information revolution', Paris police intelligence sources said they feared the Internet was triggering a domino effect across the country.
Meanwhile, Racial unrest spread to the gilded heart of the French capital on Sunday as the 10th night of rioting continued to leave a charred trail of burnt cars and smoky ruins in Paris and provincial towns.
The continued rioting saw violence erupt around one of the grandest symbolic, touristy images of France in central Paris, the Arc de Triomphe, and to yet another region, Normandy. It is thought to have significantly moved up a gear because it came just hours after religious and community leaders conducted a peace march through some of the capital’s worst-hit suburbs.
Police also found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a southern suburb of Paris, with more than 100 bottles, litres of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters’ faces, a senior justice ministry official said on Sunday.
The French authorities on said that the rioting, inexorably spreading across the country, seemed increasingly well-organised and appeared to be coordinated on the Internet by bands of disaffected technophile youths looking to have a "punch up" with police.
On Sunday, with the riot damage rising to its highest levels in 10 nights, police said 1,295 vehicles had been torched and 312 arrests made over the weekend.
On Saturday night, anxious Parisians reported that several of the fires in Paris, particularly around its key train station, the Gare du Nord, began with the lobbing of a Molotov cocktail.
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"...disaffected technophile youths looking to have a "punch up" with police."
They wouldn't be looking for "punch up" with the police if the police would put them down hard.
Well ... there you have it folks.
The INTERNET!
Let's see ... Without the internet there would be no coordinated insurrection.
Obvious solution? Ban the internet, or at least allow the UN to take it over.
Yeah ... that's the ticket.
A "punch up" with police deserves a "double tap" right between the eyes for each perp, courtesy of the police.
The French still don't get it. The Islamist militants want to destroy all non-Islamist.
I certainly hope police don't begin to target young Muslim males in the effort to crack down. I would hate to see them stoop to racial profiling. Go raid a few retirement homes instead...
Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:
No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Kindly note tagline...
They destroy non-Islamics. Then they start destroying each other. At some point, we are going to have to declare Islam as a cult rather than a religion; then we can outlaw and deport them.
and if you think any govt on the planet is going to deport these nice young boys, you need some medication. sorry to be harsh. these muslims are more valued citizens than you or i am. dont believe it? you just try burning 4,000 cars in twelve or so cities and see what happens to you.
The result will be lots of grants. Great grants and comfy sinecure jobs (to isolate and study the problem). All at taxpayer expense too.
Coming soon to an American city near you.
Gore's fault.
A time may come when things will go so bad that India will have to consider evacuating the Hindu and Sikh population from places like UK, France and Holland, like how we did in Afghanistan after the take over of Taliban.......
.....I would prefer we drop a bomb or two before we leave.
Sounds like they are testing a new method of terrorism.
It is cheap. It is disruptive.
The French have simply become too sophisticated to competently defend themselves.
So long as they don't kill people, it seems that France will allow this pillage and plunder.
Perhaps that unfortunate incident where that Saout American man was shot by the British police while fleeing in the Tubes will help prevent this sort of thing in London. The way the Brits reacted to 7/7 shows that they would not tolerate it.
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