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Paris Burning: How Empires End
Human Events Online ^ | 11/7/05 | Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted on 11/07/2005 2:42:16 PM PST by B Knotts

The Romans conquered the barbarians—and the barbarians conquered Rome.

So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the history of the empires of the West.

This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland, the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid, the Paris riots spreading across France. The perpetrators of these crimes in the capitals of Europe are the children of immigrants who were once the colonial subjects of the European empires.

At this writing, the riots are entering their 12th night and have spread to Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Toulouse, Dijon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Cannes, Nice. Thousands of cars and buses have been torched and several nursery schools fire-bombed. One fleeing and terrified woman was doused with gasoline and set ablaze.

The rioters are of Arab and African descent, and Muslim. While almost all are French citizens, they are not part of the French people. For never have they been assimilated into French culture or society. And some wish to remain who and what they are. They live in France but are not French.

The rampage began October 27 when two Arab youths, fleeing what they mistakenly thought was a police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and were electrocuted. The two deaths ignited the riots.

(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buchanan; eurabia; france; frenchriots; immigration; insurgency; intifada; islam; islamism; jihad; parisriots; patbuchanan; quagmire; surrender; uprising
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To: B Knotts

And you tell me, over and over and over again, my friend: Ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction!


221 posted on 11/07/2005 6:47:56 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Well,that's the death of the thread1)
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To: DCPatriot

The Serbs were fighting the KLA [muslims] Clinton ordered our troops to bomb the Serbs.


222 posted on 11/07/2005 6:49:45 PM PST by JOHANNES801
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To: Porterville
Your response is in total conflict with your tag line.

If you believe that being "Spanish by birth" and "American by the grace of God" are compatible..........you missed the point sometime prior to the grace of God.

PS: mexicans are NOT 'Spanish' and neither are Guatemalans, Cubans, etc.

Nor are any of them a 'race' as in 'La Raza'.

However, ONLY mexicans claim to have the 'right' to put me or anyone else in del Norte under their thumb.
It's been tried before....

223 posted on 11/07/2005 6:50:07 PM PST by norton (change in tag line... it IS about the CIA and it IS about CYA...)
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To: peyton randolph

You need to tell that to the "Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago" crowd in California. Apparently they didn't get your memo, or maybe you just don't know enough Spanish to understand what they are saying.


224 posted on 11/07/2005 6:51:04 PM PST by Pelham
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To: peyton randolph

> And I wouldn't buy my kid that new Michael Jackson/R. Kelly music CD either. ;-)

I haven't always been as conservative as I am now, but one thing has always been a constant for me... I have despised Michael Jackson and his music as long as I can remember.


225 posted on 11/07/2005 6:51:47 PM PST by XEHRpa
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To: norton
For clarity:

"Nor are any of them a 'race' as in 'La Raza'."

"American" is not deemed to be a race either; one of our greatest strengths.

(Sorry for your side)

226 posted on 11/07/2005 6:55:46 PM PST by norton (change in tag line... it IS about the CIA and it IS about CYA...)
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To: fallujah-nuker
I recall one poster who asked why the neo-cons didn't call out their leader Loius Farakan when he said the levees in New Orleans were blown up. That had to have been the most off the wall post I saw!

Now that is funny! Never knew that the Fruitcakes of Islam were friends of Israel. Oy vey!

227 posted on 11/07/2005 6:57:16 PM PST by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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To: norton
You choose your words, I choose to be rich and hire fools.
228 posted on 11/07/2005 6:57:19 PM PST by Porterville (Pray for War- Spanish by birth, American by the Grace of God!!!)
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To: B Knotts
WRONG. the situation is very similar. There is longer any legal immigration from Mexico. They have their own culture, watch their own TV shows, speak their own language, and even the 2nd and 3rd generations think of themselves as Mexican, NOT AMERICAN.
What will happen in a few years when illiterate parents have illiterate kids, and they too are on welfare?
229 posted on 11/07/2005 6:58:44 PM PST by Exton1
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To: Wraith
Well all the news I've been reading here indicates these are children of the dishwashers and trash-collecters...the French service industry. They live in self-governing shari-style law...when it suits them. They are muslims 1st and french citizens second.

But they are french citizens. You can't deport a citizen.

The calamity here is that because we consider ourselves a civilized animal, we hesitate to kill an enemy that wants us all dead.

And, they absolutely treat women disgracefully when compared to the rest of the planet.

For the liberal who believes in utopia this is not good.

The terror will grow exponentially if you incarcerate them.

230 posted on 11/07/2005 7:02:36 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: peyton randolph
Sky-is-falling arguments against the Mexicans

Can't you see?

Hardworking, Catholic, family oriented immigrants.

Lazy, Islamist, misogynist immigrants.

The same thing according to Pat.

231 posted on 11/07/2005 7:03:18 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Pelham
You need to tell that to the "Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago" crowd in California. Apparently they didn't get your memo,

Yep. Take a few lunatics' views and smear millions by claiming the lunatics are representative of the group.

No one thinks that Louis Farrakhan represents the views of all American blacks.

No one thinks that all American Irish (including Buchanan) drive drunk and kill their girlfriends just because a Kennedy did so.

or maybe you just don't know enough Spanish to understand what they are saying.

Feel free to trash my Spanish skills. I speak four languages. You're just showing your ignorance.

Typical for a paleo knuckle-dragger (see - I can stereotype too)

232 posted on 11/07/2005 7:03:23 PM PST by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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To: peyton randolph
>>>>>Give me 10,000 Hong Kong or Taiwanese immigrants any day over 10,000 Eurosocialist welfare state weenies.

If immigration were restricted to 10,000 or even 100,000 per year, the composition of the immigrants would not matter much. But when you are importing as many people as we are, it becomes critically important. And importing hordres of people from the Third World is not a recipe for success.

Of course, it is simply a matter of common sense that, on the whole, Europeans will have an easier time than non-Europeans of assimilating in a country founded by Europeans, settled by Europeans, and predominantly populated by those of European descent, all of whose public institutions were founded by those of European descent.

233 posted on 11/07/2005 7:04:59 PM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Spiff

That's an awful pessimistic curve, there.

Why do they think that we'll stop having kids after this year?


234 posted on 11/07/2005 7:06:25 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: JOHANNES801
The Serbs were fighting the KLA [muslims] Clinton ordered our troops to bomb the Serbs.

Which in hindsigt enables us to say we don't discriminate in whose a$$ we try to save.

Oh...that's right. It makes no difference. We're just infidels to them when it's convenient to practice bloody jihad.

235 posted on 11/07/2005 7:08:07 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: ex-snook

So you have to clap when Israelis get blown up to be "America First"?

Maybe you meant to say something else. Proof reading IS our friend. :)


236 posted on 11/07/2005 7:09:45 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Thorin
Europeans will have an easier time than non-Europeans of assimilating in a country founded by Europeans, settled by Europeans, and predominantly populated by those of European descent, all of whose public institutions were founded by those of European descent.

Except the Europeans of the 21st Century do not resemble the Europeans who immigrated here in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Modern Europeans are primarily socialists. An immigrant from Hong Kong or Taiwan likely speaks English and is more likely to embrace independence and capitalism than his European counterparts.

237 posted on 11/07/2005 7:10:12 PM PST by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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To: Porterville

LOL.


238 posted on 11/07/2005 7:12:02 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Southack
No one is supposed to call Frenchmen as the racists that they are.

If they were truly racists then they would have never let the other races immigrate to France to start with. They are not racists; they are just not dumb enough to let the new comers take power. No one is forcing these so-called "downtrodden" people to remain in France. There is real racism out there, but this is not an example of it.

239 posted on 11/07/2005 7:12:52 PM PST by SwordofTruth (God is good all the time.)
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To: B Knotts

Maybe we should all chip in and buy Buchanan a prayer rug.


240 posted on 11/07/2005 7:13:54 PM PST by claudiustg (Go Bush! Go Sharon!)
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