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Civil Unrest in France Enters 12th Night
AP ^ | 11/07/05 | AP

Posted on 11/07/2005 7:47:06 PM PST by Pikamax

PARIS Nov 7, 2005 — France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."

The tough new measures came as France's worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting police with gasoline bombs and rocks.

Rioters in the southern city of Toulouse ordered passengers off a bus and then set fire to it and pelted police with gasoline bombs and rocks. Youths torched another bus in the northeastern Paris suburb of Stains, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; insurgency; intifada; jihad; quagmire; surrender; terrorism; uprising
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To: Pikamax

Weren't the French among those who criticized the USA after Hurricane Katrina left New Orleans in a mess and looting was taking place? What a dunce was George Bush for not having control after 24 hours!

What a bunch of losers the French are. They have no excuse like a catastrophic storm, yet are only now beginning to understand that they must take some responsibilities for the problem and establish control in their streets.


61 posted on 11/07/2005 9:06:33 PM PST by Gumdrop
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To: russesjunjee; Dog Gone
"The complete and utter fantasy world that the French government is living in is the same exact fantasy world that the US government is living in...boy are we in trouble! "

As New Orleans was being looted, was it not Mayor Nagin who, pathetic as he was, stepped up to the mikes and announced that the National Guard had been ordered to "shoot to kill?"

That pretty much took care of the problem.

Imagine if you will what Mayor Daley would do if these "North African Muslim Yoots" torched a thousand cars in Chicago?

62 posted on 11/07/2005 9:08:00 PM PST by oprahstheantichrist (...or false prophet at the very least.)
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To: prophetic
Meanwhile the New York Slimes, made shure to have the ABU GRAIB prisoner abuse scandal was FRONTPAGE NEWS for over 68 consecutive days !!

I asked my wife about 6 months ago to point out one, just one, positive story about GWB, or conservatives in general, that the MSM (except Fox) published or broadcast.

I'm still waiting.

63 posted on 11/07/2005 9:08:18 PM PST by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: Dog Gone

La Raza, 11 million illegals and rising as I type. Nuff said????


64 posted on 11/07/2005 9:08:28 PM PST by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: dr_lew

since the french will no longer need the gasoline for 33000 cars, does that mean our gas prices will go down??? Thank you french (?) yutes.


65 posted on 11/07/2005 9:09:38 PM PST by stumpy
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To: Ladycalif
calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility.

THIS time we really mean it ... REALLY!!! Last nights call for order and the previous nights, that was just a prelude to tonight's call for order ... we mean it, REALLY this time !!!
OK OK OK ... so if there is more rioting tomorrow night we shall crack down once again! REALLY, this TIME!! We're not kidding anymore!! REALLY ........

66 posted on 11/07/2005 9:30:45 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

Exactly


67 posted on 11/07/2005 9:38:42 PM PST by Ladycalif (Gilchrist for Congress; Elect a Minuteman! http://www.jimgilchrist.com/)
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To: Pikamax
Maybe if the Mooligans burnt down the Louve the rest of Fraidypants might demand Chirac come down sift and hard on the rioters. Short of that I don't know what could possibly motivate a public out cry strong enough to force that sort of action.
68 posted on 11/07/2005 9:41:14 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

BURN BABY BURN!!!!!!!

Touche' leftists!


69 posted on 11/07/2005 9:44:22 PM PST by jaguaretype (Sometimes war IS the answer)
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To: Pikamax
Too late for police reservists. You need many divisions of regular infantry with shoot-to-kill orders in every Muslim suburb. Curfew, quarantine, crate them up and put them all on the next boat to Algeria.

-ccm

70 posted on 11/07/2005 10:04:37 PM PST by ccmay (Beware the fury of a patient man.)
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To: AZLiberty
The WIkipedia article has a table of the number of cars burned each day. Rush suggested today that conservatives monitor this figure in the same way that liberals are monitoring deaths in Iraq.
71 posted on 11/07/2005 10:17:29 PM PST by AZLiberty (She couldn't control Biil's zipper. She wants to control the nation.)
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To: Pikamax
Yahoo has this titled as

Civil Mayhem Rocks France for 12th Night

Civil Mayhem.. Talk about oxymoronic.

==== an excerpt from article

In violence Monday, vandals burned churches, schools and businesses, and injured 36 police officers in clashes around the country, setting a new high for arson and violence, said France's national police chief, Michel Gaudin.

"This spread, with a sort of shock wave spreading across the country, shows up in the number of towns affected," Gaudin said.

In terms of material destruction, the unrest is France's worst since World War II — and never has rioting struck so many different French cities simultaneously, said security expert Sebastian Roche, a director of research at the state-funded National Center for Scientific Research.

Villepin said curfews will be imposed under a 1955 law that allows the declaring of a state of emergency in parts or all of France. The law was passed to curb unrest in Algeria during the war that led to its independence.

72 posted on 11/07/2005 11:11:37 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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73 posted on 11/08/2005 1:06:21 AM PST by backhoe (The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
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To: oprahstheantichrist
It is comforting to know that we still have some backbone on the local level, but to clarify, I was mostly referring to the Federal Government.
74 posted on 11/08/2005 5:37:39 AM PST by russesjunjee (Shake the fog from your eyes sheople! Our country is swirling down the sewer!)
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To: farlander
Well, that's the truth of it my friend. When they did that they opened the back door to Europe, but they are all too damn greedy and stupid to realize that. They have a knife at their throat right now and still they are blind to it.

They thought giving Muslims new countries in Eastern Europe was going to appease them. They thought wrong.

So, I say, I support NATO troops in France. I also support an INDEPENDENT ISLAMIC STATE within FRANCE. Let them feel the same pain Serbs felt. Independence from French tyranny!!!
75 posted on 11/08/2005 8:50:05 AM PST by SQUID
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