The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris

City Journal ^ | Autumn 2002 | Theodore Dalrymple

[fallujah-nuker]

"ALL of us in the West have a dog in this fight.

Today, France and Western Europe.
Tomorrow, America."

Amen.

[Yardstick]

FYI

The Barbarians at the Gates of Dawn, Theodore Dalrymple

[zerosix]

A very good article but I would go much further and state that the Barbarians have long ago breached the "Gate".

Just as Rome didn't notice when it was falling, Parisians were much too busy giving themselves shorter work weeks, spending summers on "holiday" while their parents died to notice that the lifestyle they have grown much to comfortable with has been paid for by Muslims and now the same are demanding their due.

[Prodigal Son]

Want to know why Dalrymple is a fool?

Well, I don't think the fool here is Dalrymple.

[TXBSAFH]

I care about Europe, but no France. Let them burn.

[Nowhere Man]

Bump for bookmark

[Cautor]

"Islamist vs frogs, I do not see as I have a dog in this fight. But it will be fun to watch."

Good point. The French have done all within their power to aid our enemies, especially the mohammedans. What justice the tables are now turned.

[Brett66]

The inhabitants of the cités are exceptionally well armed. When the professional robbers among them raid a bank or an armored car delivering cash, they do so with bazookas and rocket launchers

Surely there are laws against owning bazookas and rocket launchers? < /sarc >

[jongaltsr]

Those Barbarians have been there for centuries.
It's just that now they have competition for that title!

[Louis Foxwell]

France has never overcome the privilege of the court. It is so deeply embedded in the psyche of the French proletariat that they insist on providing cake to the desperate masses.
France will undergo another and another revolution until it is finally destroyed by the horrible spawn of its conceit.

[Whitewasher]

Another good late night read. Can't wait.

[Unam Sanctam]

Judges often make remarks indicating their sympathy for the criminals they are trying (based upon the usual generalizations about how society, not the criminal, is to blame)

This socialist mindset simply absolves everyone of individual moral responsibility.

[FreedomPoster]

No one should underestimate the danger that this failure poses, not only for France but also for the world. The inhabitants of the cités are exceptionally well armed. When the professional robbers among them raid a bank or an armored car delivering cash, they do so with bazookas and rocket launchers, and dress in paramilitary uniforms. From time to time, the police discover whole arsenals of Kalashnikovs in the cités. There is a vigorous informal trade between France and post-communist Eastern Europe: workshops in underground garages in the cités change the serial numbers of stolen luxury cars prior to export to the East, in exchange for sophisticated weaponry.

A profoundly alienated population is thus armed with serious firepower; and in conditions of violent social upheaval, such as France is in the habit of experiencing every few decades, it could prove difficult to control.

Marvelous.

[Reaganesque]

For years, French intellectuals have been demanding protection for French culture from the ravages of American/Anglo-Saxon culture. The biggest threats to their culture, they claimed, were McDonalds, Microsoft and Walt Disney. I have maitained for years that any culture whose gravest threats are Mickey Mouse and Big Mac's may well not be worth saving. Well, surprise, surprise!! They were wrong. I guess the French have been once again caught looking in the wrong direction while an enemy invaded. Call this their "Cultural Maginot Line."

[mrmargaritaville]

I hate to say that they deserve it----but they deserve it. The chickens are coming home to roost-chicken cordon bleu I guess.
Hey Jock (not Jacques)-choke on it you turd.

[Kozak]

Dalrymples book, " Life at the Bottom" is excellent, the essays show how far civil life in England has fallen ( a real eye opener to me). His experience as an English prison doctor resonates with what I see as an ER physician here.

[TheConservator]

Bookmarked

[Kozak]

Islamist vs frogs, I do not see as I have a dog in this fight. But it will be fun to watch.

The French have a good sized nulear arsenal and get most of their power from nuclear energy. Much as I despise them, having an Islamist France won't be an improvement for us.

[TXBSAFH]

24 empty trident missile tubes, it's miller time

[Kozak]

If we won't nuke Mecca, I doubt we nuke Paris. By the way the French have a boomer or two too...


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