Europeizanation and the enemy within

Albrock Blog ^ | 4/4/06 | Alex Bastardas

[albrock]

The Danger of "Europeization"

Riots, protests, public violence, disobedience, disregard for one's own country, radical idealism, islamism, socialism, communism, "youth mobilizations", urban terrorism... France. In recent months, Europe's "leader" has been immersed in a wave of radicalism. The muslims started and then the commies followed suit. What people fail to understand is that both have an underlying and perilous common denominator: hatred towards freedom. Putting the muslims aside, the radical left-wingers are violently protesting (which is the European way of trying to voice an opinion) because the French government wants to enact a law that would allow employers to fire employees... Huh?? Excuse-moi! Did I miss something here?? According to the current French job security ordinances, an employer cannot fire an employee if the "only" reason to do so is that he is not effective or he is no longer needed. Imagine you're a businessowner, and you decide to hire a young man with little experience. You know the high stakes but you decide to give him a chance. Well, that employee might not turn out to be the responsible and hard-working individual your business needs. Maybe he arrives late and does not get the work done in time. Furthermore, imagine your business' finances are not going that well (maybe because of that guy's poor performance). In America, you would be able to solve the problem by letting the ineffective worker go, and maybe hire a more efficient and responsible one so you could balance the books. And maybe that inept employee would find a job that better suits him, who knows. But, in France, you have to stick with that imbecile and carry the burden because the government forbids you (the business owner, the guy who has given that young man the opportunity to work) to fire him! Who the heck would want to hire a French worker with these insane stalinist policies?? Unsurprisingly, the French youth unemployment is 22% (the national unemployment rate is also a worrying 9.8%). But even when the most inept of governments tries to fix a huge problem, the radical Europe starts to mobilize against the measure. Can't they see the stats?? Are they so blind and brainwashed by the European socialist establishment that they can't even start to fathom that there is a big socioeconomic problem going on in their beloved country??

I gave up on France a long time ago. Frankly, they are a nation in decline and I could not care less about them. Their blind pride and arrogance will eventually destroy their country. The troubling aspect is that these radical waves -be it islamism or radical leftism- are expanding to the rest of the European Union, and to a lesser extent to Canada. Maybe the biggest threat to freedom does not lie in faraway Mesopotamia but rather among the radicals living within the West. The enemy is an insider. Let's crush it.

posted by Albrock @ 4:18 PM  

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[Vicomte13]

The banlieux protests, mainly Beurs, did not start because of the "hatred of liberty". They started because of the hatred of police brutality. You have, perhaps, forgotten that some relatively young boys were electrocuted after being chased by the police. The fiery protests were ignited by deaths, not ideals about Islam.

The current labor unrest is not due to a theological hatred of freedom, but a desire for it. Employers must be limited in their ability to exploit employees. That is what French labor law is all about. The CPE seeks to allow those under 26 to be exploited much more aggressively than French culture will allow. And so France is rejecting this law en masse. France's labor issues will have to be addressed another way, if at all.

[albrock]

Yes, everything can be defended under the auspices of "police brutality". If the protesters hadn't been violent, the police would not have been brutal. Maybe the police should not have gone as far, but they reacted to something, they didn't just wake up one morning and said, let's electrocute some commies.

And about the labor laws, here in America, there's no "exploitation of employees" and we don't have those Marxist protection laws either. If you feel exploited or w/e, you quit. You cannot force a business owner to permanently pay a salary to an incompetent worker! Just give it time, France will fall, and the rest of Europe will follow.

[Vicomte13]

"Yes, everything can be defended under the auspices of "police brutality". If the protesters hadn't been violent, the police would not have been brutal. Maybe the police should not have gone as far, but they reacted to something, they didn't just wake up one morning and said, let's electrocute some commies.
And about the labor laws, here in America, there's no "exploitation of employees" and we don't have those Marxist protection laws either. If you feel exploited or w/e, you quit. You cannot force a business owner to permanently pay a salary to an incompetent worker! Just give it time, France will fall, and the rest of Europe will follow."

Your timeline is wrong.
There was no protest. The police chased some kids. Afraid, they hid in a power station and got electrocuted. And people got angry and began to protest. This, of course, brought the police with whom those people were angry. More furious protests.

As to the labor law, it is possible to lay people off for redundancy, and it is possible to fire people for incompetence. There is a process that must be followed to ensure that the firing is properly motivated. In other words, the claim of economic redundancy is true, and the claim of incompetence is valid. Labor court procedures in France are not cumbersome in the same way that court proceedings often are in America.

Yes, it is harder to fire workers.
No, it is by no means impossible.

[albrock]

I don't know the details of that particular protest (there's been so many lately in France that it's hard to keep track...). But the fact that they demonstrated violently against the labor laws, and that they do so in a regular basis, remains. As to the labor laws, just compare those countries that don't have a Marxist labor protection system (US) and those who do (France, Italy, Germany...), and then check their economical performance and unemployment rates... Don't you think it's time for them to grow up and abandon this Marxist BS that has led their countries into an economical quagmire??