Posted on 11/07/2005 5:31:57 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
While American soldiers successfully combat terrorists and insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, a widespread insurgency continues in France's emanating from Islamic migrant areas.
The violence and destruction spread across the country yesterday with more than 900 cars torched in one night. Observers, experts in security and police operations, wonder if the French are capable of putting down this insurrection.
French police initiated a helicopter response and claim they arrested close to 200 Muslim rioters. Police commanders and their superiors say they intend to step up action against rioters responsible for 10 nights of violence.
The destruction has spread to the outskirts of other cities around the country – including Toulouse, Rennes, Nantes and Lille – were hit by a wave of arson attacks.
Cases of arson were also observed in parts of central Paris. For instance, a Molotov cocktail consumed four vehicles near a major square, Place de la Republique, while six vehicles went up in smoke in another district..
Despite calls for calm, 918 cars were torched yesterday and 897 the previous day. One American national security expert cynically told this writer that he wouldn't be surprised if the Chirac government surrendered to these homegrown insurgents.
"They [the French] just may hold to their reputation for appeasement and surrender," he said.
Seven police surveillance helicopters armed with high-tech cameras hovered above Paris and other locations in the hopes of pursuing and identifying the the mostly young North African and Arab arsonists, who have taken to setting fires then fleeing the scene, frequently on motor bikes.
Special squads of police trained in special operations smashed through doors in a public housing project in the Paris suburb of Les Mureaux where they arrested youths who had tossed heavy objects, such as supermarket trolleys, on police and on a heavily traveled road.
Over 2,200 more police officers in riot gear and weaponry were deployed to patrol the streets while over 100 additional firefighters were sent to the Paris region under attack.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who's been the target of a great deal of criticism for calling the rioters "scum" and wishing to take a hardline on the rioters, visited a police command headquarters in southern Paris overnight. During an impromptu press conference he said that the gangs responsible for the violence have become increasingly organized. They have been seen using mobile telephones to relay police movements and internet blogs to urge unrest elsewhere.
Overall, over 550 insurgents have been arrested since the riots began, some of them minors found carrying gasoline bombs.
The violence erupted on October 27 when two teenagers, one an African immigrant and the other an Arab, were electrocuted while hiding in an electrical sub-station after fleeing a routine police identity check. The checks are part of France's homeland security strategy. Some left-wing politicians and groups have accused the French police of "Gestapo" tactics when dealing with Muslims, and they've leveled the old standby accusation so familiar to Americans -- racial profiling.
So far no one has been killed during the civil unrest, according to the French government, but at two civilians have been badly burned by Molotov cocktails. They were a firefighter and a handicapped woman who was deserted on board and unable to get off an ambushed bus. An elderly man is reported to be in a coma after being struck by an attacker in a housing project.
Not incapable, unwilling. Socialism breeds contempt and lethargy.
What's the big deal? These are indigent insurgents. They're expressing themselves in the only way that will get the attention of the colonial power which puts them down. It's "The Arab Street". Blah, blah, blah....
Are there any hard line nationalists in France?
"Overall, over 550 insurgents have been arrested since the riots began, some of them minors found carrying gasoline bombs...So far no one has been killed during the civil unrest, according to the French government, but at two civilians have been badly burned by Molotov cocktails."
The answer is amazingly clear: Raise the tax rate on petrol to astronomical new heights and take the ability to pay for it away from the chronically unemployed. In this way, the source of the danger will be removed and the government will have plenty of fresh money from the taxes taken from the disproportionately wealthy population's continued gasoline purchases. In this way, they will be able to rebuild Paris, cut greenhouse gas emissions, bail out their failing medical system, increase subsidies to farmers and create new government jobs to help integrate illiterate North African Muslims into French society.
"The Second Amendment of the US Constitution tells why we will never see anything like this from muslims in the USA."
Think again, the moment you raise a gun to a muslim, regardless of what the muslim is doing, you will promptly be arrested for a hate crime and the muslim will become an instant hero.
uh, sorry to be a bit contrarian, but in the la riots, it took three days and some fifty dead before our govt did its ARMED REPSONSE THING. do i really need to remind everyone about new orleans? didnt think so.
Truth is, he didn't call them scum.
If all we have to go on about Le Pen's ideology is the lying Treason Media then we really know less than nothing.
As far as I know he has been telling the truth about the dangers posed by the followers of Mad Mo.
Charles Martel is spinning in his grave.
With that distasteful duty out of the way, France can now begin a glorious collaboration!
Yes, the Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy.
IIRC around day two of the riots, he called them "Scum". The rest of the French Cabinet wet their pantaloons, and demanded he apologize and/or resign - he has not.
The rioters may have a particular dislike for Sarko since his grandad on mom's side was a Jew (Sarko was raised Catholic, though).
What’s the main reason these murderous punks are giving for rioting? The Lack of human rights in France.
It was France who connived with human-rights champions China and Cuba to toss the United States off the UN Human Rights Commission, with Sudan (of all places) taking America's place. America they said had lost favor among all these third World countries, who now look at the United States as being cowboys with a blood-lust passion for war.
But who cities are burning today? Fires caused by former citizens of the Gimmie Gimmie third world countries.
Listen up France. You can earn respect, or you can earn RESPECT. You chose the wrong path.
The nice thing about the US is we don't "offer to form citizen militias" to stop crap like this--we just form them. The Rodney King riots in LA stopped when the rioters ran up against just such a barrier of armed citizens. Thank God the horrible AWB expired.
You better remind Cindy to be sure to pack her Burka for the trip.
The moment I have to raise a weapon on a moo, there will be one dead moo. The taking of a human life is the most difficult decision one can make, but I have had to make it before and I can make it again. It is always better to try and cope with the taking of a life, than to be dead.
Shoot, shuffle off, and shut up.
I don't recall this being the case at all (though there were specific instances of business owners hunkering down with their families and their guns to protect their property). I believe the LA riots stopped when the U.S. postal service announced that it wasn't going to deliver mail -- including all kinds of government checks -- to South Central L.A.
Moret than anything else, this French Islamofascist insurrection shows why all of us who can should go out and buy all the guns and ammunition we can afford. Otherwise, it will assuredly come here. I don't just want a gun saturated society; I want one that's drowning in legally and legitimately owned guns and ammunition.
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