Posted on 11/04/2005 12:49:30 PM PST by SquirrelKing
Posting full article for us Steyn-heads.
Steyn Ping!
Steyn: "I mean, he is a provocative figure. You know, someone said oh well, you look at Clinton at the height of the Monica thing, and his approval ratings were 55%. Bush is only 40%. Well, Bush is a controversial figure, in the sense that he wants to accomplish something. Obviously, if you like Clinton, and I don't know what Clinton accomplished? Did he...was it federally mandated bicycling helmet legislation?"
You mean Bush has an agenda and is trying to see it through? Well as wrong as I may think some of his agenda is...he has the testicular fortitude to at least attempt to do something.
Great tagline!
Thank you for your post.
Fits well with the events in Paris doesnt it?
Yes, that is a very clever tagline. Is it your coinage, or a famous quote perhaps?
I want to know whom to cite.
They're places where the writ of the French state does not run. The police don't police there. They basically figure if you go there, you're on your own.
I remember reading about these muslim housing projects in connection with a story about bringing drugs into France.
One method involves sending decoy cars crashing through border checkpoints. When the police engage in a chase with the decoy car, the muslims crash an 18-wheeler full of drugs through the same checkpoint. The chase of both the decoy and the truck continue until they are stopped, or until they reach these muslim housing projects, which function as a sort of “homebase” and the police won’t chase them further.
It doesn’t matter what occurs in there – assault, rape, murder, kidnapping – if you’re in the muslim zone, the French police will not pursue you.
As bad as NYC got in the late seventies, and early eighties, it never approached that! If the NYPD was overwhelmed in a really bad neighborhood, they just sent in more firepower and manpower until the situation was resolved.
These riots will continue until there is some massive firepower brought to bear on these “misguided youth.” The ending will be brutal, or there won’t be an ending.
Are you serious??
susie
I doubt that there is stomach for anything brutal. Only a government like Israel or the US would approve and have that capability. I think we're going to see "Appease! Appease!" continue. Problem is, there is no desire to be appeased or negotiate. If Europe isn't becoming Palestine West right now, it may soon well be.
And it isn't until you get thirteen paragraphs into the story, and they're quoting one of these youths, and you realize he's called Mohammed, that it occurs to you that there might be an ethno-cultural religious component to this situation. And this is absolutely grotesque, because the one...I'm sometimes accused of being terribly pessimistic when I speak in North America. And I always tell Americans and Canadians, that the one great advantage people have, you know, everything may...there may be a lot of bad news in the world, but the one advantage North Americans have, is that Europe is ahead of you in the line. And you have to learn what's happening. You have to confront honestly what's happening with these disaffected Muslim populations in Europe.
As I posted on another thread, I’ve been reading how the DUers are following this story. It’s absolutely astonishing how utterly ignorant they are of the situation over there. If CNN or MSNBC doesn’t tell them something, they simply don’t know it.
To them, this is all about economic disadvantages. They barely ever mention the islamic aspect of it all, and when they do it’s just in passing.
They think the poor kids are just rioting because they’re sad that their economic outlook is bleak. In other words, there is nothing going on over there that at little more socialism couldn’t fix up jiminy quick.
The muslims of Paris are openly declaring open war on secular law, and DU thinks it’s all about the government cheese.
Memo to the Department of State:
'When they came for the jews, no one stopped them.'
'And when they came for me, there was no one left to stop the crazy critters.'
Its mine. :)
I know a girl in Sweden, who I helped with her Master Dissertation when she went to the Sorbonne. Ten years ago she would tell me stories about "The Algerians" in her neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris.
She went back to Sweden and got married, etc...but I always thought she was embellishing some of her stories (rapes, honor killings, etc)
Ah humor! Well, I would believe anything of that nut. If he thought he could make political hay....
susie
I doubt that there is stomach for anything brutal. Only a government like Israel or the US would approve and have that capability. I think we're going to see "Appease! Appease!" continue.
I think the appease game will continue for a while, but once the dead French citizens start piling up, there will be a tipping point.
As history shows, the French have, buried deep down inside their poofy psyche, a switch that can be flipped to make them pretty efficient at exterminating people within their own borders.
And unlike every other nation on earth, the French don’t have to deal with the pissy complaining and haughty second-guessing of their decisions by the French.
PC multiculturalism knows no bounds. The truth is its kryptonite, but the media does all that it can to suppress the truth. That's why the "of {insert muslim nation here}descent" part of such stories is usually buried in the story, if its in there at all.
In the last century, at least, European governments that have been unable, or unwilling, to deal with civil disturbances have found themselves replace by much more radical governments that were willing to restore order, one way or the other.
The longer the mainstream French political parties continue to ignore this problem, the more likely that the French people will vote in a radical party, with violent results.
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