Posted on 11/05/2005 2:54:50 PM PST by Daralundy
Right here, watching and waiting...
Yep! Never look a gift-horse in the mouth.
Chirac is all talk, and no action. Here's what Chirac was saying almost 8 years ago, in 1998 when cars were being burned by mooligans in Neuhof, near Strasbourg.
French President Jacques Chirac, in his annual New Year message, denounced growing violence in France and urged people to help the police control the problem. He said: "There is too much violence in our country, too much insecurity - in the schools, on public transport. Every day new limits are broken beyond which our society will disintegrate."Cars are now burned annually, on January 1, in Neuhof.
PS. Vlad will have to stand on his own, get out of the party, right?
I was on that thread. Said my piece and got the hell off. Appeaser and apologist pi$$ me off and I don't want to get banned.
Zoot Alors!
It might be interesting to note that islam has attracted people who felt outside with respect to property ownership. This is especially obvious in Indonesia, which is far from being Arab, since only 7% of the land has clear property title. Those who are outcast might tend to join up with the first system of inclusion that comes along. So it is with islam, and so it was with Christianity way back when, and so it was with communism. It's a symptom, not a cause.
France needs to modernize and expand its land ownership system now, before it is too late. Whatever this requires, the process will probably have to be political.
Actually, Sarkozy is the president of the party (UMP).
Whoops! Shows you how little I know...
I'm having trouble getting my "sympathy meter" into gear. Right now it's registering "zero".
Car burning in particular seems to have become a popular form of expression. In the Strasbourg area, some 500 cars were torched in 1997, up from 400 the previous year. Other cities were not so hard-hit but have had increases."Burning cars has become a kind of ritual," said scholar Farhad Khosrokhavar, who studies young Muslims in the suburbs. "Through this violence, [young people] feel involved in society. They feel like stars.
Hmmmmmm
Got a link? Me wanna see this.
I am calling for the creation of a french-muslim state, with Paris as it's capital.
Me thinks that this is going to shut up a lot of finger-pointers.
Isn't he the one who gave Colin Powell such a difficult time? and basically was an arse over Iraq at every available moment he could find a camera? I think he could give Chuckie Schumer a run for a camera ( or could have back in 2002/03.
Ya think? I think Chirac is still in shock over the French voting against his beloved EU constitution... he was so anxious to use that to poke us with at every chance, take over the world currency from USA, etc... when will they get his to step down??
Perhaps this is the aim of continuing the "soft" approach.
He, we have our own Muslim population... if we go to war against Muslims to save France, Denmark, etc.. then we have a battle on the home front.
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