Posted on 04/07/2006 1:20:15 PM PDT by george76
"France: Riots again,”...last week. The title could be the same this week.
Riots are starting to become a way of life in France, or maybe it's the sign of something more sinister.
Last November it was cars, warehouse, and schools in flames.
Now it is casseurs randomly smashing in storefront windows and administering random beatings.
The country of arrogance was very sick.
Muslim youngsters living a thug's life of radical Islam, violence and drugs; widespread anti-Semitism; high rates of unemployment.
Nothing has changed since the riots of November. No politician is offering real solutions. France is still on the verge of disaster.
For decades, France has been the country of lifetime employment, the country where almost everybody's dream is to become a civil servant, the country where it's forbidden to work more than thirty-five hours a week and where six weeks of vacations a year are mandatory.
Little by little, the burden has become too heavy.
Almost all the journalists in France are fervent socialists...
Almost all the teachers and university professors are fervent socialists too.
And the students who are in the streets now repeat like puppets what they have been told by trade unionists, leftists, professors, journalists, and socialist politicians.
They do not understand that the privileges their parents enjoy have a price and that they are the ones who will have to pay the bill.
They don't understand that they themselves are the victims of the privileges of their parents.
In fact, they understand nothing about the world they live in because they have been brainwashed since primary school into believing that they deserve a job, a nice car, an apartment, a good salary—all of this immediately—and that the purpose of government is to provide them with all this.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
France is a very strange country.
Socialists are very strange.
French socialists are off the charts.
Apparently the French have surrendered to themselves.
Nobody else wants them.
Well, the author of the article does have something right: the cycle of efforts to change the labor laws and social protections, followed by general strikes and the collapse of the government.
And that is what is happening this time too.
Sooner or later someone - probably Segolene Royal - is going to start making changes in the country, reforms that can be accepted by the French. These reforms will probably aim at criminality and making it easier for businesses and individuals to borrow money, and not keep going down the tired dead end of trying to make work in France more precarious.
Looking at the politicians around here at home lately, it's kinda' hard to beat up on the French.
Ain't that the truth!
The really scary thing about France is that it has nukes, including thermonuclear weapons, and the means to deliver them ballistically. Between Pakistan and France with their nuclear arsenals and islamic problem, the USA has to be on her toes. I hope we have sufficient rapid deployment forces to secure nukes in two countries simultaneously.
Certainement.
"France is still on the verge of disaster."
Oui. Au revoir, la belle France.
"They don't understand that they themselves are the victims of the privileges of their parents."
Privileges, non. Stupidity, oui. And not only the stupidity of their parents--the stupidity of themselves also. The children of today's Frenchmen will curse their parents.
Great article!
All they would need to do is learn how to bathe a little more often...
European savages; what does one expect? I hear they are cannibals.
Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus" Girolamo Fracastoro, 1530. But in those times the French Disease [Morbus gallicus] was syphilis, not rioting.
The Armenian Christian murders were later.
Schroeder tried to lower the taxes on corporaations when he first came to office. The mobs took to the streets, he backed down, and the economy is stagnant, the birth rate is zero, and he's now out of power having accomplished nothing at all.
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