[Brilliant]

"We must be lucid: The Republic is at a moment of truth..."

i.e., we've been lying all along, but now you should believe us.

[Mamzelle]

five seconds! Wow. Ya'll ought to at least get a tie and share a thread...

[NormsRevenge]

Beat me to it. ;-)

[Brilliant]

"Villepin said jobseekers with foreign-sounding names do not get equal consideration as those with traditional French-sounding names."



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

[Hawk1976]

The rioters better watch it or Chirac will deliver a stern saring at.

[Brilliant]

they did not oppose the use of curfews but also warned that they should not be used to hide suburban "misery" or become "a new mark of segregation."

Right. Curfews might do that. Right.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

"Restive"? That was reserved for Falluja, and Al Anbar. The mediots convinced everyone that to be "restive", there had to be freedom fighters. Wait a minute.........

They are not insinuating that freedom fighters are are extracting revenge on France for their occupation of Iraq during the awful UN sanctions that starved 100,000 children?

[Brilliant]

French historians say the rioting is more widespread and destructive in material terms than the May riots of 1968...

They've even got the "historians" in the act. You know that social collapse is imminent when they start quoting the historians.

[TSchmereL]

Restive? WTF does that mean?

[mad puppy]

I'll be very surprised if establishing a curfew has any effect on the riots. Now, if you have the police shot those involved in the riots, that might work after a couple days.

[cgbg]

France is wounded. It does not recognize itself in these devastated streets and neighborhoods, in this outburst of hatred and of violence that vandalizes and kills," Villepin said.

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.

Villepin is deep in denial about the new France.

[Veto!]

The Légion Étrangère to the Rescue!

[savedbygrace]

"We must be lucid: The Republic is at a moment of truth," Villepin told parliament. "The effectiveness of our integration model is in question." He called the riots "a warning" and "an appeal."

Surrender takes on many forms.

[Earthdweller]

French MSM covers up what is, in fact, a pogrom .

"The Socialist Mayor of Noisy le Grand, speaking on France Culture radio yesterday morning ....women were dragged from their cars by their hair and, for all intense and purposes, stoned by rampaging youths..molotov cocktails were thrown into people's homes. ....asked the Army to intervene."

[SamAdams76]

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."

Now, like then, it is doomed to failure and will only serve to embolden the evil enemy. Just watch and see.

[Uncle Vlad]

How do you say, "Not with a bang, but a whimper" en Francais?

[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.