Restive France Declares State of Emergency

AP via Yahoo! ^ | November 8, 2005 | JOHN LEICESTER

[dvan]

Can't we all just get along?

[Fred Nerks]

Communist Party leader Marie-George Buffet warned that the decree could enflame rioters. "It could be taken anew as a sort of challenge to carry out more violence," she said.

There's your problem, right there, you COMMUNIST scum bags. It's a huge tragedy that France has to burn before the french wake up that islam wants to take over their country.

[Antoninus]

The word pusillanimous was invented strictly as a descriptor for the French.

[Lizavetta]

"Restive" instead of "scared sh*tless"
"youths" instead of "jihadist muslims"
"unrest" instead of "rioting"

Don't you just love the media?

[Bob J]

"Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, tacitly acknowledging that France has failed to live up to its egalitarian ideals, reached out to the heavily immigrant suburbs where the rioting began. He said France must make a priority of working against the discrimination that feeds the frustration of youths made to feel that they do not belong in France.'

It will never happen. Oh there will be a few bones thrown, a couple of dog and pony shows to make it look like the immigrants have been accepted as real French citizens, but the French are far too arrogant and their supremacist nature to ingrained to actually allow the brown and black people anything more than to think they are French.

Besides, they only allowed them to immigrate so they could sweep their floors and provide pensions to the retired...at least the ones that don't die of heat stroke.

[Zechariah11]

Villepin, only self-criticism?

In his speech to parliament, Villepin said jobseekers with foreign-sounding names do not get equal consideration as those with traditional French-sounding names.

[cookcounty]

Some economist ( I forgot who) was pointing out today that since the 1970's, the US economy has created 57 million jobs, while the EU, with roughly similar population, created 4 million. The French have not yet figured out that wealth and enterprise creates more wealth and more enterprise. They are stuck in static socialist zero-sum gaming, and there aren't even enough jobs for the French and therefore none at all for the legions of young arabs and africains.

This is going to get a lot worse.

[cookcounty]

The curfews begin at midnight each night, for teenagers 18 and below. Finally, Chiraq takes really tough action!!! That'll show 'em!!

[keats5]

Gosh, I hope we never get any "youths" in our country. They sound awful!

[FreedomFarmer]

The Légion Étrangère to the Rescue!

You may have a good idea there, although the Legion has been on the outs with Paris ever since the Mutiny.

I read a few days ago the French Army is 28% muslim, so summoning the Armee de Republic might have unintended consequences.

[DLfromthedesert]

Does that mean the United States gets called in to rescue them..... again?

[keats5]

restive \RES-tiv\, adjective:
1. Impatient under restriction, delay, coercion, or opposition; resisting control.
2. Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn.

He turned restive at the least attempt at coercion.
--Ouida, Held in Bondage

...
Restive comes from Medieval French restif, from rester, "to remain," ultimately from Latin restare, "to stand back, to remain behind," from re-, "back" + stare, "to stand."
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[taxed2death]

"What do you expect when you constantly harp on "cultural purity?"

Excellent point. France is always touting it's superiority over ALL other cultures...yet it imports a slave class and treats them like $hit.

Their hypocrisy is second only to their delusional level of self importance on the worlds stage.

[taxed2death]

"...but the French are far too arrogant and their supremacist nature to ingrained to actually allow the brown and black people anything more than to think they are French."

Truer words were never written here on FR.

[Veto!]

the French Army is 28% muslim, so summoning the Armee de Republic might have unintended consequences.

What about the police force? Why don't they have muslim officers to patrol the muslim ghettos?.

[SauronOfMordor]

There are many local Jewish and other non-Muslim shopkeepers and residents who have fled from the Muslim areas who think this looks a lot like modern France.

The purpose of the riots was to make the predominantly-Muslim areas into entirely-Muslim areas by forcing the non-Muslims to flee

Once they have their secure enclaves, the pattern will shift to committing crimes with impunity, and then running to sanctuary in the enclaves. The enclaves will also start hosting bomb factories for the next time the French get uppity

[nopardons]

Obviously not.

[nopardons]

Exactly !

[SauronOfMordor]

This is reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain's efforts to "reach out" to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during the 1930s. Back then, the Brits, like the French today, banked on making concessions in order to gain "Peace for our time."

Meanwhile Churchill was pleading

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.

There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

US and British forces will NOT be landing at Normandy again. The French will have to save themselves, or perish

[Gertie]

It's over folks. The French have surrenderd. All that's left is to work out the details of how to give the muslim rioters everything they want. Once again France did not fight for their country, they handed it over with soft spoken words.