Lord of the Fires (French Riots, Day 13)

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 8 Nov. 2005 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[oldbrowser]

It was a dead, white, French philosopher, Rene Descartes, who wrote, “Cogito ergo sum.” (I think, therefore I am.) These live, non-white, Muslim philosophers have modified that to, “Destruo ergo sum.” (I destroy, therefore I am.)

How do you say "I don't think, therefore I will cease to exist".

[Species8472]

And it was the eurotrash leadership that lecturing us about the situation in New Orleans after Katrina. Can you imagine if W had waited so long to act there! Sure wish I could find some of the quotes.

[PsyOp]

The only thing that can save France now is if the Germans decide to invade to prevent the further spread of the riots.

In fact, Chirac ought to call the current German chancellor and offer to be annexed so they can get the Leopards rolling into Paris as soon as possible.

I'm sure there are still some frogs that remember the words to the Horst Wessel song...

[Zhangliqun]

I have heard there was rioting in Denmark, but Germany too?

[Savage Beast]

OH SURE! If you're going to include US...!

So the internet's now part of the media??? Then I suppose it is becoming more truthful. And accurate.

Come to think of it, I've been using the tagline "The internet is the newspaper of record" for some time now. Sometimes your subconscious just gets way ahead of your awareness.

Okay. The media's reporting plenty. (But network television is still the same old propaganda machine.) And note tagline.

[backhoe]

Excellent.

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[Political Junkie Too]

...nor any reporting on riots that have occurred in the US...

Interesting wording. I know you meant reporting in the United States on French riots, but it sounds like reporting on riots that have occured in the US.

-PJ

[Luke21]

You are so right. These are the same nitwits that reported the serial killers and thugs of the 1970's as "misunderstood victims of society."

If an event doesn't happen to them directly, they will spin it in utopian, blind, politically correct fashion. This is their religion. Nothing can disprove it in their feeble minds.

The fact that it took them so long to cover the riots at all speaks volumes. In their heart of hearts, they know...

[little jeremiah]

Read the first few sentences. About the ages of the perps.

[Congressman Billybob]

No, I DID mean to refer to reporting on riots that have occurred in the US. The MSM is just as smarmy in reporting on riots in L.A. as those in Paris. In both instances, they recite "causes," economic and otherwise, for the rioting. The simpler and more honest answer is that in some communities, the residents revert to barbarism whenever all restraints are removed -- by natural disasters (New Orleans) or man-made ones (L.A.).

John / Billybob

[Political Junkie Too]

Thanks for that clarification. I remember the Cincinnati riots a few years ago over the number of African-Americans that were shot by police. On the other hand, there were the riots because the home team won a sports event, which made no sense at all.

-PJ

[layman]

Ignorance, bias, laziness?

Cowards perhaps?

[Delta Dawn]

I would guess that a group of people burning a 1,000 cars a night aren't too concerned about a curfew.

[okie01]

And that, of course, is the other story of this entire intifada - the reporting of the event through leftism's template.

Quite correct.

There are TWO stories going on simultaneously.

1. The widespread riots in France.

2. And how the MSM is reporting them.

Both stories betray the utter bankruptcy of liberalism. Confronted by a failure, they cannot call it by its name.

[garyhope]

Yes,.."The average Freeper" but not my "liberal" friends or relatives who still have their heads, hearts and minds stuck up their you know what's or in the sand.

They just don't get it.

We Freepers do, but then, we're smarter, more perceptive and prescient, better looking and more well informed than the average Dim, and very Dim and Dimmerer.

[Enterprise]

bump

[ApplegateRanch]

How do you say "I don't think, therefore I will cease to exist".

Try:

"non cogito, ergo rigormorteo,"

as a rough draft.

[ApplegateRanch]

I have heard there was rioting in Denmark, but Germany too?

Add Belgium to the list. At least three days worth there, too.

[Gritty]

Observing the meltdown of France, which is under attack by unemployed immigrants , um, disaffected youth , er, riotous teenagers , uh, I mean muslim fanatics, one can only assume the entire thing is a mystery that somehow is related to French whine.

Anyway, after reading our local newspaper and watching TV I simply can't tell who is really to blame except, somehow, "us", I have decided to take a hint from the current writhing of the fashionable French and simply have to ask (strictly as a fashion statement, you understand!),... does this .357 magnum and bandolier of 12 Gage #4 buckshot make me look fat??

[Congressman Billybob]

Damned fine post, my friend. And, no, the bandoleer does NOT make you look fat.

(I recall a cartoon from a few decades ago of a Mexican at the door of his hovel, wearing a brace of pistols and with bandoleers over both shoulders. His wife was on the ground and had grabbed him around the knees. Caption, "Pedro, don't go into politics again.")

John / Billybob