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"France without fratenity"

Apologies for the rough translation-- I used an internet tool to get it out quickly

by Maxim Leo (op ed)

At night cars and business burn into that Paris suburbs. Even schools and kindergartens are attacked by disinhibited young people with gasoline bomb. On the day after crying mothers before the smoldering rubble stand. The policemen, Beschuetzer of the mothers and owners of shop, are fired at with sharp ammunition. First refuse pulling into the nocturnal civil war. A helpless prime minister is located in the parliament and speaks of a serious crisis. Others say it more clearly. They speak of the threatening surrender of the state.

The deployment of the military is considered. Nobody seems to know so quite, how one can get the things into the grasp. The situation is gotten out of control. That is because of the fact that it does not concern already for a long time to no more the mysterioesen death of two young person, who released all of this. It does not concern the question of the integration from immigrants, also not around the shaming circumstances, in which humans in the French suburbs live. It concerns the demonstration of power - on both sides.

For a long time, well organized gangs took over the fight of the luckless immigrant Kids, which are active normally rather in the drug procurement and other fields of the organized criminality. They make themselves the social pressure too use, which the immigrants suffer. The police speaks whole groups of one hundred from special operation forces of well armed Guerilla troops, which succeed, to to duepieren. "you want to show us that the rules of France in their quarters do not apply, say" a delegate.

The fight of the state however is operated by choice fighters, to who it concerns above all to look good with the next presidency elections. Thus the French Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy tries, to flatter with strong sayings and solid police presence to the voters extreme rights. At the same time it disassociates itself from its largest competitor, that rather liberal prime minister Dominique de Villepin. The fact that its acting intensifies the crisis accepts Nicolas Sarkozy. The taper is welcome it. The more cars it burn, the more policeman bleeding to hospitals to be in-supplied, the more clearly is the French citizen to become that its way of the hardness is the correct. The plan seems to function. While the Minister of the Interior rises as a man of the act in the inquiries, the Prime Minister with its discourse of the social integration stands there as lascher Schwaetzer.

This instrumentalization of the immigrant problem leads to the fact that on both sides so far undreamt-of coalitions develop. In the suburbs now also peaceful young people the gangs follow, because they do not have the feeling to injustice, also it are meant, if the Minister of the Interior speaks of "Gesindel", which must become cleaned "with the Kaercher". The Minister of the Interior for his part receives support from the socialist party, even communist delegates hides not its sympathies for the man with the iron hand. The aged boss of the right-wing extremists, Jean Marie Le Pen, already suggested that he could quite deliver a recommendation for a worthy representative of the conservative ones with the presidency election.

Possibly this is the beginning of a radical reorientation of the French immigrant politics. It could be that one hears still complete different sentences of the French Minister of the Interior soon, sentences, which let it appear still worthier in the eyes of Le Pen. France sees itself as homeland of the human rights, as cradle of republican thinking. The establishment idea of the French republic consists of the fact that each humans are Frenchman, if he divides the values of the French civilization. This concept of the nation includes all. It was for many centuries the basis for the successful integration of millions of strange humans.

If the state permits the fact that by purposeful polarization the strangers remain always strange is void sometime the basis this understanding of nation. Develop enclaves, which are not no more reached by the French civilization. Insurmountable borders develop. And the fear of the Frenchmen, grows to be lost in that it surrounding strangeness.