Rioting Spreads to 300 Towns in France, unrest hits Germany, Belgium.

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[rhombus]

Apparent copycat attacks

Or a widening front?

[robowombat]

'Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose reference to the troublemakers as "scum" appeared to inflame passions'

Ah, he hurt their widdle feelings did he. A load of buck shot delivered at close range is really what is in order for these t-rds.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

YAWN

[NeoCaveman]

I always thought they'd need to be a bigger minority than they are before beginning the Euarabian Intafada.

[rhombus]

'Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose reference to the troublemakers as "scum" appeared to inflame passions'

Perhaps something happened to inflame Minister Sarkozy's passion, no?

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

HERE'S....... MUHAMMED!

[Max in Utah]

The Israelis used .22 cal. rifles with suppressors to fire bullets into the abdomens of rioters during the Intifada. I believe the same tactic would be effective in taking rioters off the streets while avoiding fatalities which would further inflame the situation.

On the other hand, a dead rioter burns no churches...

[keats5]

"I always thought they'd need to be a bigger minority than they are before beginning the Euarabian Intafada."

I guess I did, too. Apparently all they really need is a society too P.C. to defend themselves.

[knarf]

Euroweenies unite for whirled peas !!!

[splint]

"I fell in to a burning ring o fire, I went down, down, down, and the flames getting hire...LMAO."

The French: "We surrender!"

[AdamSelene235]

The Israelis used .22 cal. rifles with suppressors to fire bullets into the abdomens of rioters during the Intifada.

But the Israelis have not lost the will to live like the Euros.

[Max in Utah]

Perhaps the new generation will recover that will to live. They'd better do it quickly, however... they don't have much time left.

[AdamSelene235]

Jeff Cooper has an excellent essay on the use of 22lr in riot control in his book: To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth.

[Taggart_D]

"The law must have the last word,"

Is that the kind of law similar to a UN declaration?

[splint]

...yeah, with one press of a button!

[Barney Gumble]

61-year-old man hurt in the violence died of his wounds

Notice the MSM being good dhimmis and covering their masters by saying a man "hurt in the violence." The man was beaten by Muslims and later died. "hurt in the violence" implies a much less severe situation. No doubt that they would say "man was severely beaten by the gang of (insert non-PC group here) and later died of his extensive injuries" if races/religions were changed. But there is no bias in the media

[soccer_maniac]

Chirac should hire Baghdad Bob :)

[Peter Libra]

From the text.

..... struggling with high unemployment,racial discrimination and despair-fertile terrain for crime of all sorts.....

I have carefully noted in both the print media and on T/V what seems to be an unwritten conspiracy. Nowhere have I seen any invective against these terrorist thugs. Now it might be argued that it is not the job of the press. Yet, when police over react under stress against criminals, how the press does lay on the outrage.

Better still, have a few surly skin heads, calling themselves some ridiculous out dated name and the press has a fit.

The clue is in the words "media spin". A rough definition is that it is the use of words to present one's own bias or slant. Better still and also, can be words NOT used. Like an Orwellian nightmare the key words are stamped home by this media monolith. Racial discrimination, poverty, despair, youths, anger. My sad conclusion is that the press have successfully staged managed this news.

[marshmallow]

These attacks are being carried out, by and large, by punks with flaming bottles of gasoline, aka, Molotov cocktails. There is little in the way of firearms, from all accounts.

A well armed and determined citizenry could stop this chaos dead. Instead, the disarmed and confused French are cowering in their homes, hoping that the ineffectual and overstretched police will take care of this.

I'd be outside guarding my vehicle- and property- , as would any other honest individual, and I'd be prepared to use force to do it.

There may be an upside to all this. It may wake the French up to the fact that their beloved nanny-state is really a hollow shell which will never take care of their every need.