[Southack]

It's always wise to consider if current events are rigged, a trap, or merely a repeat of history...just in case.

Don't get me wrong, the events in Paris and Denmark should probably be taken at face value as radical-islamic insurgencies with no bearing on French elections (which are rapidly approaching), but even so, in the back of our heads we should remember that an unpopular French government at one point benefitted mightily from French protests that appeared to come from people opposed to those in current power.

[geopyg]

Yeah. This was probably set up just so Chriac can show his "tough guy" image to everyone. ;)

[spokeshave]

Ahhh.....1968......remember Clinton in UK arranging the big demo at the US embassy in London.

And his various nefarious trips behind the iron curtain..... never explained.....setting up a safe house in Prague I bet.

[adamsjas]

Don't get me wrong, the events in Paris and Denmark should probably be taken at face value as radical-islamic insurgencies with no bearing on French elections

I doubt this seriously.
If anything this will bring down Chirac, and probably replace him with the Mayor. But not by anyone's design.

Its been brewing for a long time. It will require troops to put it down. If troops are not used soon thre will be a permanant muslim enclave in France - A Palistine on the Seine.

[kipita]

Why I became a conservative
by Roger Scruton

I was brought up at a time when half the English people voted Conservative at national elections and almost all English intellectuals regarded the term “conservative” as a term of abuse. To be a conservative, I was told, was to be on the side of age against youth, the past against the future, authority against innovation, the “structures” against spontaneity and life. It was enough to understand this, to recognize that one had no choice, as a free-thinking intellectual, save to reject conservatism. The choice remaining was between reform and revolution. Do we improve society bit by bit, or do we rub it out and start again? On the whole my contemporaries favored the second option, and it was when witnessing what this meant, in May 1968 in Paris, that I discovered my vocation.

http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/feb03/burke.htm

[Tiger Smack]

what nonsense. There is NOTHING in common with what happened in '68 to what is happening today.

1. Those were french citizens in '68, today they are foreigners and people who dont want to asimilate into European culture

2. The people in '68 went back to their jobs, there are no jobs today

Need I continue?

[Iris7]

I have always liked DeGaulle, and have ever since I was a kid. Without DeGaulle the world would have been so much more dull.

I would rather not compare Le Grande Charles to la petit Jacques, dull as Edmund Muskie.

Besides, I am enjoying the events in France. There is a bit of organization on the Islamist - Nihilist (a truly French combination!) group making this not a riot but an insurrection.

I keep thinking about what step two is, and step three. I figure they want to topple the government and exercise sizable power in the next, but then what?

[Graymatter]

I remember 1968. The entire planet passed through a cloud of something like red kryptonite.