Posted on 11/12/2005 4:17:23 AM PST by janetjanet998
PARIS - The number of cars torched overnight in France climbed slightly over the previous night to 502 in a 16th night of unrest that took its heaviest toll on the French provinces, police said Saturday.
Security was boosted in the capital with some 3,000 police officers fanning out around strategic points to counter feared weekend attacks targeting Paris. Gatherings were banned from Saturday morning until Sunday morning.
"We returned to an almost normal situation in Ile de France," said national police chief Michel Gaudin, referring to the Paris region. Arson attacks were counted in 163 towns around France, he said. The count of those detained overnight stood at 206, bringing to 2,440 the number of suspects picked up in just over two weeks of unrest.
Two Molotov cocktails were tossed at a mosque Friday evening in the southern town of Carpentras, but it was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to the unrest that has wracked the poor suburbs and small towns of France since Oct. 27. President Jacques Chirac demanded that investigators quickly find out who was behind the attack.
We shoot people for cutting us off. Your are right it wouldn't go far. We would open fire on the unruly mob.
It's like he's ignoring the 5 million elephants in his living room and only noticing the mouse.
Can you imagine what would happen in Brooklyn if mobs of Muslims were going around torching cars? The Goombas would go nuts. Come morning, there would be a few burned cars and hundreds of corpses.
AH! The return of the chain guard!
Gotta keep them people happy.
Who cares? The haven't made a decent car since the Facel Vega, and that was Chrysler powered.
When they start looting, the Parisians will get nervous.
But but they have that, ah-whats it called? Ray no?
>sarcasm off
700-1700. A thousand years of war with Islamic invaders.
Running out of easy targets. They have "overfished" and soon will have few new fish.
Maybe there should be a law that they can only burn two cars each/night, or maybe only cars 5 years old or older, so that younger cars could grow.
Seriously - would you park anywhere near these areas at this point?
My wife likes to ask me to name a French muscle car.
Try it - (Facel Vega not allowed due to Chrysler power and low production) (Citroen SM of course is Maserati power) etc.
Notice how far back you will go.
I really think it reveals something about their culture. At least to an American. Italian, or German it must.
Rush: "Remember the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? Where are the 10,000 bodies? I want to see the 10,000 bodies. 'Til I see 10,000 bodies I'm not going to believe a damn thing that these people say anymore."I posted his transcript here.
As usual, Rush is very perceptive. It's funny how the Left hates him so much, they never take his advice-- he routinely tells them how to cure their problems, but will they listen? Nooo!
"If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence."
Well, you are right. The difference is that Islam was on the defensive after 1700. Napoleon's invasion of Egypt was part of a major effort from the Europeans to control the Middle East. So we go into a period of colonialism which the Muslims think of as religious warfare but we do not. The Muslims can depend on the sympathy of the socialists who associate colonialism with capitalism. Since they have no insight into the thinking of religious people, the socialists insist on ascribing social and political motives to islamofascism, which are really secondary to the terrorists or even to ordinary Muslims.
Normal? Must be a real Hell-hole over there.
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