Posted on 11/08/2005 12:04:12 PM PST by NewMediaFan
PARIS (Reuters) - France is wounded and faces a moment of truth, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said on Tuesday, after his government approved the use of curfews to quell 12 nights of rioting.
The protests, blamed on racism and unemployment in rundown suburbs, receded in the Paris region after shots were fired at police the previous night but continued unabated in other parts of France in the early hours of Tuesday, with youths torching more than 1,000 vehicles overnight.
"The Republic faces a moment of truth ... France is wounded. It cannot recognise itself in its streets and devastated areas, in these outbursts of hatred and violence which destroy and kill," Villepin told the lower house of parliament.
"A return to order is the absolute priority. The government has shown this. It will take all the steps necessary to ensure the protection of our citizens and to restore calm ... We see these events as a warning and as an appeal."
Five cars were torched in Brussels in what officials say could have been copycat attacks, but the rioting did not spread across the border. Even so, fears of riots erupting in other countries helped push down the value of the euro.
Villepin's conservative government adopted a decree at an emergency session under a 1955 law that allows regional government officials known as prefects to impose curfews if they consider it necessary.
The decree was due to take effect at 11 p.m. British time, after the Interior Ministry decides where prefects can impose curfews not widely seen here since the Algerian war of 1954-1962.
Villepin said 1,500 police would be brought in to back up the 8,000 officers already deployed in areas hit by unrest involving poor white youths as well as French-born citizens of Arab ....
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Ah! The liberal fantasyland where truth does not exist.
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This DU thread has some posters that mention the Muzzies.
Dear God, it's worse they are getting!
Perhaps the French jails are already full and they have no room to house prisoners for longer terms...
Gotta hand it to the French. They sure know how to crack down and get tough.
LOL!!!
its stunning how similiar the actions are between the palestinians and the french muslims.
Claim victimhood. Claim they are being oppressed. Blame everyone but themselves for why they can't find work.
Get the liberals to feel sorry for you. Demand money and land as way to stop violence.
Can someone here help me out, please?
At first, the media reported that youths were protesting in the suburbs of Paris. When I read that, I thought I understood that many people were rioting. I had no idea of the names of the people rioting. I assumed they were French.
But now I read this.
Just who are Messrs Racism and Unemployment? Are they the only two people who are rioting? I mean, people riot, don't they? Shouldn't the people who riot be blamed for the rioting?
So who are Mr. Racism and Mr. Unemployment? And why aren't their names more French?
It means they are going to pay the Muslims more to be quiet.
He should have said: "If you have participated in the violence and go near a mosque, or take refuge in a mosque, you will be pursued and tear-gassed as necessary."
Or in your kitchen perhaps?
"I just read in another article that Les Frogs are threatening to jail the "youths" for UP TO TWO WHOLE MONTHS!!"
I they are under 18 years old, it will be only 1 month.
Most of them having already visited the place, some for many years they will spend that month renewing with old friends.
Kristopher.
Has the white linen come back from the cleaner's yet Vilepan?
By Mark Fisher PARIS — The planet Mars is closer to Earth than it's been in 60,000 years, prompting speculation that a Martian invasion is imminent. While the US dismisses the notion, the UN is calling for a resolution barring Martian forces from landing on Earth. A second resolution restricting "all Martian spacecraft and personnel" to US and British soil was gaining momentum.
France's President, Jacques Chirac, fearing extraterrestrial occupancy as unavoidable, ordered the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales to launch six Ariane 5 rockets, carrying satellites armed with self-deploying white flags and really big "Vive La Martian!" banners. The satellites also contain pictorial representations of aliens dining at Paris bistros, sightseeing near the Eiffel Tower, and slithering gloriously beneath the Arc de Triomphe. All six satellites will maintain Earth orbit for over fifty years.
Although accustomed to foreign occupation, not all French citizens support the government's action. A small army of resistance fighters, donning aluminum foil hats and rubber wetsuits, was reported forming in the French Alps, and several French restaurants were already posting "Martians Not Served" signs. Hostile treatment of foreigners, a French tourism staple, is expected to remain unchanged.
While U.S. space experts doubt the validity of a Martian invasion of Earth, most agree this would be the best time for the Red Planet to launch an offensive. "If they did launch today, it's safe to anticipate they'd reach Earth sometime next week, maybe even on Labor Day," said one NASA official. "That's a long weekend for us, so we won't be watching very closely. Hopefully, any invading ET's will see the French satellites and head for Paris, but traditionally the little buggers like to land in the southwest USA — New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, places like that. Probably prefer the climate; it's a little more like home. Hot, but it's a dry heat. Plus, they can move around Las Vegas virtually undetected."
Maybe we could rent them cell space in our secret prisons.
Their impusle toward appeasement is second nature, putting them at an automatic disadvantage in quelling criminals who gain strength with every act of appeasement.
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