Posted on 11/04/2005 7:32:13 AM PST by Syco
Groups of youths hit Paris' riot-shaken suburbs with waves of arson attacks, torching hundreds of cars, as unrest entered its second week Friday and spread to other towns in France.
In the eastern city of Dijon, teens apparently angered by a police crackdown on drug trafficking in their neighborhood set fire to five cars, said Paul Ronciere, the region's top government official.
Overnight in the Paris region, 420 cars were set ablaze, up from previous nights, the Interior Ministry said... The unrest was led by "very numerous small and highly mobile groups," with arson attacks that destroyed 187 vehicles and five buildings, including three sprawling warehouses.
Car torchings are a daily fact of life in France's tough suburbs, with thousands burned each month, police say. Police intelligence has recorded nearly 70,000 incidents of urban violence this year, including attacks on police and rescue services, arson, throwing projectiles, clashes between gangs, joy-riding and property destruction, Le Monde reported.
Many of the riotous youths are the French-born children of immigrant parents. The unrest has laid bare discontent simmering in suburbs and among immigrant families who feel trapped by poverty, unemployment, and poor education.
Youths fired buckshot at riot police vehicles in Neuilly-sur-Marne, east of Paris, and a group of 30 to 40 harassed police near a synagogue in Stains to the north where a city bus was torched and a school classroom partially burned, Cordet said.
In Trappes, to the west, 27 buses were incinerated. But the unrest was scaled back from the sometimes-ferocious rioting of previous nights, when bullets were fired at police and firefighters without causing injuries.
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That's what I was thinking! Where is GreenPeace? Imagine the toxins being released into the atmosphere as the synthetics in these cars and buses burn!!! Oh the horror!
Tell every blessed one of them that the money tap is being shut off to every person who lives in France, but liberal welfare payments are available to all who go back to live in their countries of origin.
France is going to be cutting the checks anyway. Why not send them to Algiers?
Agreed. Totally. I've already been taken to task for suggesting it will happen "within a generation". I was simply being kind/ optimistic. It will be sooner. Definately before 2020.
I think the Frenchies need to eat some humble pie after the way they carried on about Katrina and its aftermath. I want all of our newscasters to make condescending remarks about these riots just like France did about our natural disaster. Too bad our media doesn't have the balls to do this.
Two questions:
1) What the Hell is that thing?
2) Where can I get one?
And, of course, as in the U.S., it is "everybody else's" fault. No personal responsibility possible...
Wonderful!
...you can lead a horse to water...
Dear Frenchies:
NOW do you care about confronting the threat of Muslim extremism?
NOW do you regret being an obstacle to the US' desire to take on these Muslim extremists abroad, in order to avoid fighting them domestically?
NOW do you regret being so ungrateful to the US, who has saved your country at least twice before?
Enjoy the fires burning around Paris. I hear toasted marshmallows are really tasty this time of year.
Sincerely,
The United States
Of course not!That's just another fallacy of MULTI-CULTURALISM!!I just wonder how long it will take The French to surrender?It only took them two-weeks in the summer of 1940!!!
God Save the Mustard (honestly, that's all I care about).
I hear that John Kerry has a plan for France. He is headed to the United Nations to get a resolution condemning the violence. He should have one in the next five years, and he is very confident that it will pass the "global test".
Sounds like an escalation.
We don't think it's going to take anything like a generation. There are too many areas in Europe already teeming with Muslim hordes. The vandals are through the gates. Just as in Rome, tolerance and the granting of citizenship, without loyalty demanded in return, has left these small countries helpless. Let us see whether the Gauls ever recover. We have our doubts. There are doubts as to whether they have the belly for the wet work.
The situation is somewhat reminiscent of Europe prior to WWI, though not entirely. What IS similar is that there are large factions, not well organized, with their own grievances and ambitions and a willingness to use violence to acheive their ends. We have been noting for some time the parallels to the "ersatz war" of the 1930s that has seemed to be in place since the 9-11 attacks and the US response in the ME and South Asia.
Will it stop or will it spread and what to lengths will the Gauls go to stop it. These are the questions.
It appears that law enforcement has been lacking for some time, hence, the impunity with which these gangbangers operate. Here's a good account from 3 years ago as to le law enforcement au Paris:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515278/posts
Unfortunately, France has nukes and I believe, several nuclear power plants....which present troubling possibilities.
An oldie with new relevance.
John Fox - Film & Television Armourer - Weapons Specialist Armorer
M134 Specifications
M134 Gun System
Length 31.56 in. 80.16 cm.
Width 12.0 in. 30.48 cm.
Height 9.5 in. 24.13 cm.
Weight
Gun, M134 7.62 NATO 35 lbs. 15.75 kgs.
Drive Motor, 28 Volts, DC, AC 8 lbs. 3.6 kgs.
Feeder/Delinker 10.16 lbs. 4.57 kgs.
Gun Control Unit 4.16 lbs. 1.87 kgs.
Gun DriveGear Housing 1.16 lbs. 0.52 kgs.
Cables 2.5 lbs. 1.12 kgs.
Battery User Specificied. User Specified
Mount
Yoke 2.3 lbs. 1.03 kgs.
Pintle 1 lbs. 0.45 kgs.
Vertical Arm 5.0 lbs. 2.25 kgs.
Height (from mounting surface) 13.45 in. 34.16 cm.
Ammunition Items
Magazine, 1,500 Rounds Empty 33.0 lbs. 14.8 kgs.
Full 130.0 lbs. 58.5 kgs.
Magazine, 4,000 Rounds Empty 25.0 lbs. 11.25 kgs.
Full 285.0 lbs. 128.25 kgs.
Feed Chute Length 7.0 feet 2.13 meters
Feed Chute Weight 6.0 lbs. 2.7 kgs.
Total System Weight
without Ammunition, Battery or Mount 60.98 lbs. 27.44 kgs.
Feed System Linked Ammuntion Belt
Firing Rate 3000 shots per minute (spm)
Acceleration Time 0.5 Seconds
Deceleration Time 0.25 Seconds
Dispersion Hard Mount, 6.5 Mils, 80% Circle
Operation Electric External Power
Power Requirements
Max at Startup 28 Volts DC 400 amps
Continuous 28 Volts DC 40 amps
Voltage AC Available
Reliability/System Integrity
Barrel Life 200,000 rounds
Reliability 500,000 MRBF
System Life 1,500,000 rounds
Gun Life (before rebuild) 1,500,000 rounds
Mean Rounds between Jams 30,000 rounds
Recoil Forces (at 3000 spm)
Average 150 lbs. 67.5 kgs.
Peak 300 lbs. 135 kgs.
Operating Temperature Range
Minimum -65°F -53°C
Maximum 165°F 73°C
Barrel
Rotation of Barrel Cluster Counterclockwise viewed from breech end
Overall Length 22 in. 55.88 cm.
Weight 2.5 lbs. 1.12 kgs.
Grooves 4
Twist Right Hand
Rifled Length 20 in. 50.8 cm.
One Turn In 10 in. 25.4 cm.
John Fox - Film & Television Armourer - Weapons Specialist Armorer
The cheese is pretty good too. They can keep their wine though. I prefer Napa or Sonoma.
The French have been paying extortion money to Arab/Muslim countries for some time....(Don't bomb us, please. Bomb someone else.) And there were those illegal Iraqi/Saddam/French oil deals. They thought they had a special relationship with the Middle East and were immune to violent attacks/murder/bombings, etc.. It seems they're wrong.
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