Chirac vows order as French riots spread

Reuters ^ | November 6, 2005 | Elizabeth Pineau and Sophie Louet

[Loud Mime]

---Chirac vows order as French riots spread---

Chirac: One order of vows and a side of Grey Poupon seevooplay.

[Popman]

Excellent point

[JustaCowgirl]

...African immigrant communities who make up a significant part of many suburban housing estates.

Is that the French term for ghetto ?

Apparently so. Conjures up images of French villas in the country, doesn't it?

[MadIvan]

Some of us wish we were in there tonight,there are still some decent people in France worth defending-I think so anyway.

At the very least, there is Sabine Herold, a good conservative, fighting the good fight in that most desperate corner.

I've been told she's a Freeper as well.

I'd take up arms to shoot towelheads that dared lay a hand on her.

Regards, Ivan

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Perhaps we should send FEMA to help.

[P.O.E.]

Their deaths ignited frustration among ethnic minorities over racism, unemployment, police treatment and their marginal place in French society.

Do they keep repeating this so that maybe it will magically turn into the truth?

[Joe 6-pack]

"...a police spokesman called for a sense of proportion: "It's 211 districts out of 36,000, so France is not burning."

Right. And on 9/11, only three buildings in the US were hit by terrorists, out of what must be countless millions of buildings in the US. Proportion, please.....

[livius]

Sadly, I will say that I think some of the French "policy" was copied from our way of dealing with certain areas of Iraq. We should have come in like gangbusters, but time and again our military was pulled off because the theory was that these things would play themselves out. Or that it would be too politically dangerous, not because of the Iraqis but because of the left-wing media, to respond with the serious force these places need. Inevitably troops had to go in there and clean them out, and this is what will happen in France, too.

Except that between 15% and 23% of France's military (from estimates that I have seen here) is Muslim, which could complicate things enormously.

[Clemenza]

"Nietzsche says 'Out of Chaos comes order!'"

[MadIvan]

Hi MadIvan, what is the take in the British press? Not surprise, I imagine?

There is concern. I too am concerned - I really don't want France to fall to pieces, as annoying as I find the French government.

Regards, Ivan

[softwarecreator]

Their Socialist and Communist parties sound and act just like the Democrats here.

That's because they hate democracy, capitalism and all things American.

[Blzbba]

"stop! or I will say stop again!"


LOL! Yeah, really. You gotta just love the French.

[cpdiii]

7.62-51 solution, deliver at 2700 feet per second, 147 grains. It has a very calming effect on the unruly.

[Fudd Fan]

"The violence has tarnished France's image abroad,"
As far as I'm concerned, I don't think anything could further tarnish France's image anymore than it already is.

That's the French for ya, blissfully ignorant.

[MadIvan]

Just a suggestion to the French...arm your riot police with this:

They want war - make them eat hot death.

Regards, Ivan

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Come, come; these little setbacks are to be expected in a socialist paradise every now and then. A little more secularism, class envy and wealth redistribution should do the trick.

[vbmoneyspender]

Despite the worst destruction since the riots started, a police spokesman called for a sense of proportion: "It's 211 districts out of 36,000, so France is not burning."

Bravely spoken, particularly since the ante appears to get raised from one day to the next.

[LibWhacker]

Oh, Chirac's gonna get tough, huh?

[softwarecreator]

Do they keep repeating this so that maybe it will magically turn into the truth?

Of course, what other choice do they have?  Admit that they were wrong about France's appeasement policies, Islam and Bush?  No chance on that.

[Cicero]

"The Republic is quite determined, by definition, to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear," Chirac said.

Translation: "L'Etat C'est Moi."