The bad thing is that it took all 8 cops to finally wear the kids arms out from beating on them so they could get the cuffs on.
France is finished.
The green flag will replace the tri-color within two decades.
That's the last straw... the French military will now commence a major offensive on law-enforcement!
Get the marshmallows ready.
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced France could become Euro-Detroit.
Detroit used to be an American jewel; prosperous, full of business and life, fantastic buildings and had so much to offer. After the race riots they've become the poorest, most liberal (I'm still trying to puzzle THAT one out) and the most segregated city in the US. They heap financial demands on the rest of the state, villify the suburbs, run lynching election ads (see Hip-Hop Kilpatrick's campaign), tax the snot out of homeowners, are anti-business and their schools are a disaster. They've even got "African Town," which gives preferential treatment of black-owned businesses over Arab and Hispanic. Talk about racism!!
France is turning into an inside-out Detroit. I don't know if they've got suburbs *outside* the slums they can flee to, but at this point I don't think they're willing to do what it takes to reclaim their city.
They should look hard at Detroit. It's been 30 years and the place is STILL going downhill because of racism -- blacks against everybody else.
For years- heck, decades- I've enjoyed mocking the French and it seems now that this pastime may be in danger. Who will we use as the butts of all our stinky, effete, and cowardly jokes if the French succumb to social Darwinism?
It seems then to be in our nationnal interst to do something to preserve this humourous facet of our national culture. Oh, we could send them a statue, I suppose, but more fitting I think would be a member of our upper class who enjoys slumming with his inferiors, just as they sent us Lafayette.
Hmm. Who to send? I would like to propose we send John Kerry over to direct their efforts at remaining an independent nation. He's not doing much and it has been remarked that he already looks French. Perhaps with his direction and experience, the French will indeed be able to preserve their unique place in American culture.
One down and how many to go..The Muslims said they would take over the world..
Europe never learned the real lesson of the evils of Nazism. Rather than reject the deepest premises of the Nazis, they have inverted them into a new form, so that Europe no longer seeks to liquidate its racial minorities — but instead empowers those minorities to carry out the self-liquidation of Europe.
Face it, the French are just plain stupid.
From the ridiculous to the unbelievably ridiculous.
This ain't over yet...now the "Methodists" have more of reason to show how much they hate France...
Did the cops beat the kid?
Too little info.
If they simply beat the crap out of the guy, they should be suspended.
If they had to use force to apprehend him, and the amount of force was appropriate, then they did thier jobs.
If they had to use force to defend themselves or others, and the amount of force was appropriate, then they did their jobs.
However, if they respond by going around and beating up young men on the street instead of upholding the law, they'll end up with a real revolution on their hands, and an arguably justified one.
The difference between rioting and a justified revolution is in both how the government and the people act.
Beating up rioters only makes the situation worse
