Leaders Fiddle As France Burns (12th Night)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-8-2005 | Colin Randall

[Taggart_D]

I am certainly enjoying this.

Me too...pass the popcorn.

[GOP_1900AD]

USA, Canada, etc ....

[UCANSEE2]

The attempts by the MSM to avoid letting the world know that this is the work of Muslims is nauseating.

Imagine the reaction of the 'public' when it reaches the point where it is obvious, then the media starts changing it's story again.

Makes one ask of the MSM, 'do you guys ever leave the building?'

[I got the rope]

What a sad state of affairs.

Sad, but necessary. This is going propel the conservatives in France into power.

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: But there's no De Gaulle waiting in the wings to save the French from their own imbecility.

Don't be so sure. We simply have not heard who it is yet. My one fear - not if but when the backlash gets going, we end up with Islamonazis being crushed, but at the price of old fashioned French Nazis running France. Of course this would be worst case. A far better case would be a more authoritarian, De Gaulle like figure, but one who still did not overturn the republican system per se. A culture change without a complete system change, so to speak.

[bukkdems]

The French government has no stomach for just conflict, the French people are (as far as I know) largely unarmed and unwilling to fight for their country anyway.

If this was happening in America, we would be standing armed, by our cars. I think this is an overpopulation problem, like the whole of Arabia who refuse to procreate responsibly. These Musliims come in, they get decent jobs, and then have 16 children. Nobody can garner enough property and success, coming from a third world country, to pass on a means of wealth to 16 children. Not even possible in America.

[Navy Patriot]

[lightman]

*sings* On the 12th night of riots, angry youths gave to me...

On the twelfth day of riots, the towelheads gave to me:
Twelve petrol bomb cans;
Eleven flaming Renaults;
Ten burning busses;
Nine Burka’d ladies;
Eight Imams praying;
Seven intafadas;
Six checkered kaftas;
Five WMD’s;
Four fatwa bans;
Three henchmen;
Two RPG’s;
And a Jihadist in gay Paree.

[GOP_1900AD]

Let me rephrase that. The conservatives *must* gain power. For nature abhors a vacuum. If the conservatives do not gain power, there are others of a more extreme orientation who will eventually be able to gain the support of the police and the army. They could seize power outright. Do not underestimate the potential for extreme swings toward procrustean thinking, even in decadent, secular France. Imagine how shocked people were at the demise of the Weimar Republic.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

man, a bunch of illiterate muslims have wreaked more havoc and destruction on France than the Nazi's did. But hey, France sure built lots of pretty monuments and museums with all the money saved by having the US military provide all its protection all these years.

[Taggart_D]

Yummy! Thanks.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I said it a couple days ago. Time to take Notre Dame down piece by piece & the art from the Louvre and move it all somewhere safe like the US or Poland.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

man, I really don't understand why that didn't stop this........

[avant_garde]

man, I really don't understand why that didn't stop this........

The French are appeasers. The leaders in charge believe if they come down hard on the rioters they will have riots in the streets.

[GOP_1900AD]

Time for a crusade, to protect them where they are now. I'm not kidding.

[Yossarian]

Thanks. I was afraid I made the Mona Lisa insertion a bit too subtle.....

[I got the rope]

Man, you're a riot! ROTFL!

[ShowMeMom]

I just hope that someone in France with more guts and brains than Chiraq and de Villepin is looking at this map and waking up. So far, the press is trying to portray these rioters as disenfranchised kids from the high rise public housing around Paris. I've been to France and there is no high rise public housing in all these cities, but there are mosques in many of them.

When we landed at Charles DeGalle airport there were about 50 guys in white robes bowing to the east on a nearby knoll. It wasn't the FIRST thing I expected to see on my first visit to Paris. That was eight years ago.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Appeasement = rewarding bad behaviour.

If the riots are being planned and coordinated centrally, the strategy is brilliant. They're focusing on fireworks, and other fun stuff, which draws out the young troublemakers. There isn't yet enough violence to justify an iron-fisted response (look what happened to the Serbs). Meanwhile, the thing just keeps on growing -- when it reaches a critical mass, it could shift over into heavy violence, complete with serious weapons.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I see the muslims are torching Strasbourg. That really hurts. Was one of the nicest places in Europe I visited. Beautiful wine country and town. How sad.