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France has had gangs before - nasty ones. The Apaches, for example, and no, I'm not talking about American Indians. They have had crime before. They have had violence before.

They have had the determination before to deal with it. Do they now? I wonder, in an off-hand sort of way, but I don't really care much if they don't. I don't disdain the common Frenchman at all, but his government and his universities have been taken over by pretentious fops who persist in the illusion that the greatest threat to France is McDonald's and Disneyland. Would that it were.