Zut Alors! My Citroën!!
Posted on 11/10/2005 5:10:29 AM PST by SJackson
The French argument for out-of-control immigration just went up in smoke
For the last two weeks, France has experienced riots the likes of which it has not seen in decades. In terms of destruction, the unrest is France's worst since World War II.
More than a thousand cars have been burned along with several buildings and hundreds have been arrested. For the most part, the riots are being carried out by the children of poor immigrants most of whom are Muslim.
Since the riots began, many have given their two cents as to why France is burning. Some say this is a result of years of discrimination and deprivation, some say the riots are a function of a jihad whereby Muslims are trying to turn Europe into a Muslim continent, and yet others conclude that the riots are a function of decades of failed policies by France and other Western Nations.
While there is no one cause for the French riots, none of the "experts" have considered decades of failed immigration policies as the cause of the riots. France, similar to the United States and most western countries, has experienced decades of out of control legal and illegal immigration. France, similar to the United States, has responded with liberal and inadequate immigration enforcement that has caused the nations' demographics to change rapidly.
Nations like France, the United States and other Western Nations must come to terms with their immigration policies. They can either strictly control and limit illegal and legal immigration or be willing to accept that uncontrolled immigration will change the makeup, values and culture of their nations.
Unlike past immigrant generations who quickly assimilated, today's immigrants take much longer to assimilate if they assimilate at all. This is due to technology. In the past, immigrants were generally cut off from their mother countries which made assimilation much easier. Today, satellite technology brings movies, news and culture from an immigrant's home country to the living room of his adopted country via TV, the internet and other forms of media. In the United States for example, a Hispanic immigrant can live in the United States for decades without having to learn a word of English or adopt American culture. They can turn on Spanish-only TV and radio, read Spanish news papers and read government forms in Spanish. This phenomenon is taking place all over the Western Nations.
Thus, to avoid the riots in France, Western Nations must look in the mirror and ask themselves if they are willing to accept the changes that come with liberal immigration policies. If the answer is no then Western Nations must control illegal immigration and adopt more manageable immigration policies.
Is anyone listening in D.C.?
I do not expect the French experience to have any effect here.
As long as greed displaces reason, our government will not take the steps necessary to control our borders and enforce our existing laws. I'm very sorry to believe that it's going to take some sort of cataclysm to effect change.
Diversity is our strength
/sarc
well said. (NOT sarcasm)
Problem is that there children are not, they want the same sort of wage as expected by the host population, hence these problems.
We need to look at the work and pay structure in the west, look at ways of mobilising the host population and removing the host under class rather than adding to it with the children of immigrants.
But it ain't gonna happens because there are individuals on both side of the political wing both left and right who want things to stay as they are.
Dare I say both are hostile to the white working class.
Diversity is their strength.
Especially when our media and the whole of France is lying about the real cause of the problem. Assimilation is the real problem.
Excellent point. Our Chamber of Commerce is screaming about a labor shortage while a large segment of our population is under employed. Some of these folks are unemployable but a lot are able bodied if undereducated. But we seem to be able to put under-educated people from the third world to work so why not our own?
The key in my mind is dismantling large chunks of the welfare state that make it possible for these folks to sit on their butts and live like parasites. I agree that is very difficult to do politically. I think the key to it is to be pursuing policies that benefit our middle class and make them more prosperous. Prosperous people care less about socialism and more about high taxes. They are the key to dismantling the rot in our underclass.
In the past, the GOP stood for prosperity. But lately we seem hell-bent on a mass immigration policy that is absolutely designed to put increasing pressure and misery on the middle class and may ultimately lead to its destruction. Rather than making people prosperous, we are making large chunks of our middle class poor.
Poor folks wrongly but inevitably vote for more socialism. We are not making America better by importing poverty and screwing our blue collar middle class. Those folks know what is happening to them and I think we are going to see a measure of their anger in 2006 and more in 2008.
You're right, it's all about money. Complicating matters is the US's bottom-dwelling underclass, uneducated, basically illiterate, and content to live on govt. handouts and/or drug/prostitution income. We saw some of this in New Orleans. Sociologists believe that segment of the population will never change, so we have to provide for them, and not surprisingly, this encourages a sense of entitlement.
Well, here come the illegals, many with the same sense of entitlement. They want upward mobility, however, a college education, etc.. That Mexican poll not long ago, with half the middle class saying they'd move north in a heartbeat. A quarter of the population is already here, and half the rest want to come. If Bush and Fox and the CFR get their way, Mexico will simply move in and demand whatever everybody else has and more.
There's such an anti-American feeling to the world. Jealousy, rage, and a sense that it's all America's fault...whatever the problem is. Look at last week and Argentina. People rioting, throwing molotov cocktails and yelling that it wasn't fair for the US to have all the jobs. Well, blaming the US for everything has worked for years, so why stop now.
"Hell, if the last two world wars are any indication, I would expect France to surrender any day now", said Bush.
Joint Chiefs head, Gen. Peter Pace, warned the President that it might be necessary to send up to 5 Marines to get things under control. The general admitted that 5 Marines may be overkill but he wanted to get this thing under control within 24 hours of arriving on the scene.
He stated he was having a hard time finding even one Marine to help those ungrateful b@stards out for a third time but thought that he could persuade a few women Marines to do the job before they went on pregnancy leave.
President Bush asked Gen. Pace to get our Marines out of there as soon as possible after order was restored. He also reminded Gen. Pace to make sure the Marines did not take soap, razors, or deodorant with them. The less they stand out the better.
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Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
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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.
Then, there is this little problem...
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actually it is. Look how mixed blood most americans are. It is our strength when people come here and assimilate.
No.
In the bigger picture, though, remember that to thwart our enemies the best, we should retake France. Ignore the MSM.
Why would we want France? Give it to Canada.
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