Restive France Declares State of Emergency

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

[John Locke]

Don't count the French out yet. They were is bad shape in the 700s, under the infamous Merovingian roys faineants - which is a dead accurate description of Dominique de Villepin, by the way - and then came Charles Martel.

Let by a coward, they are cowards. Let by a hero, they can indeed be heroes.

[John Locke]

Oh yes - here is Sir Edward Creasy's description of the famous Battle of Tours.

[mathurine]

French itself seems foreign sounding.

[lmr]

Rioters have been using mobile phone text messages and the Internet to organize arson attacks, said police

I thought these rioters were poor... They have cell phones with text messaging and access to the internet?

[mathurine]

Reality is a bitch. The frogs have been continuously critical of Israel as it has tried to deal with this sort of mohammedan lowlife behavior; now the frogs have to, and if they don't do pretty much as the Israelis have done, they can kiss Mona Lisa good-bye because these mohammedans will burn anything, anywhere, including the Twin Towers, lest we forget.

[Max in Utah]

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

Why not? They'd look fetching in Kevlar turbans.

[Cedar]

The thinking of the French "leaders" is so flawed it's almost shocking to read.

[Brilliant]

Don't they subsidize cell phones in France? If not, I'm sure it's part of the welfare benefit package.