[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[hattend]

Steyn Rocks BTTT

[Txsleuth]

I heard a "youth" call Michael Medved's show...and complain that the reason those "youths" in France were doing that is because---"no one listens to the youth these days..and we have to find any way we can to be heard"....yeah, right.

[Forte Runningrock]

"unless you're planning on croaking imminently, you will live to see it."

Oh I sure hope so. It will be amusing to see the shock of horror written on the faces of those liberals who just can't understand why they are being persecuted, after all, they helped!

[Lady Jag]

Like rats that keep gnawing till they break through somewhere and then take advantage of it, the Whacko Maroons found that France is soft and runny all over.

[nothingnew]

Thanks Pokey. As sad and frightening as all this is, well, when you read Steyn, even about this...you end up LOL.

FMCDH(BITS)

[irv]

Some of us believe this is an early skirmish in the Eurabian civil war. If the insurgents emerge emboldened, what next? In five years' time, there will be even more of them, and even less resolve on the part of the French state.

Just as likely, it will reach a point where the current elites feel anything is justified and resort to absolute barbarism to put down the car-burning gangs. These are the French we're talking about. They may be weak, but they're also ruthless and corrupt.

[Rummyfan]

Steyn nails it. I'm sitting here listening to some idiot on Batchelor saying there is no religious component to this rebellion, and that the French government needs to address the needs of the 'youths'. What an idiot! Lay down a curfew, and shoot any 'youth' who defies it.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Indeed, it's an almost perfect tactic if your aim is to have the entire French establishment dithering in grievance-addressing mode until you've extracted as much political advantage as you can. Look at it this way: after two weeks, whose prestige has been more enhanced? The rioters? Or Mayor Debré, President Chirac and Prime Minister de Villepin?

Hmmm, that's an easy one to answer... the rioters of course. And as for “youth,” they are a bunch of Islamic terrorists.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Watery Tart]

Steyn BUMP!

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YOUTS ping!

Also, "I don't care how excrementally runny it is!" ping.
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[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey!