Posted on 03/16/2006 6:20:02 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
The insurgency has entered its twelfth straight night of violence against the weak government. While elected leaders fumbled for a response to the mounting aggression, groups of insurgents armed with Molotov cocktails and projectiles continued their reign of terror burning thousands of cars, buses and ambulances with intermittent violence against unarmed citizens. The government promised to have a plan by the end of the month.
This is not a wire from Iraq or Afghanistan; this is Paris, France, cultural kingdom of Europe and the model held up by socialists, communists, liberals and Hollywood clowns around the world as the great equal society. While elitists in France and other parts of the world mocked the situation in Louisiana as symptomatic of Capitalism and racism and as something that could never happen in equitable Europe, someone has unfairly pulled back the curtain on a dangerous secret.
The French ghettos made up of mostly North African and Arab immigrants have been a festering problem for France for decades now. While the prospect of unlimited low wage labor to make up for the low birth rates of the French coupled with the lack of interest in low wage jobs by the French was promising, somewhere along the line something failed.
These islands of poverty, isolation, unemployment, crime and drugs have been allowed to grow like a cancer. For years now, police and firemen have been afraid to patrol these streets. Second and third generation immigrants don’t feel French, have little stake in society and feel more aligned with Palestinians then they do with French or European society. But how could this happen in a country based on Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité? For French immigrants and their offspring there is no such axiom.
This brings us back to New Orleans and the ignorant observations by European press and elitists. The problems of New Orleans had nothing to do with Capitalism or racism or a cruel and unfeeling nation. Mistakes by local and state Democrats and even the Federal Government aside, the real disaster of New Orleans was created decades before when it accepted the Socialist model of government.
New Orleans is in fact more in line with Socialist Europe than with anything one might describe as Capitalist. Generations of poor New Orleans residents were kept in horrendous government housing receiving welfare, food stamps and yes, free healthcare. But the government is never the answer for anyone. The government must always be a temporary safety net. The problem of New Orleans was that, like the French immigrant ghettos, they created a welfare state with little hope for jobs, education or a stake in society. New Orleans was a Socialist disaster rather than the victim of corporate greed. France is only now waking up to this sobering reality that social services, while good, are not enough to make people part of society. As much as M. Chirac would love to turn people’s attention away from France’s troubles, the fire has already been lit within his country for the world to see.
M. Chirac elatedly burned every bridge with the United States, not out of moral principles on Iraq, but out of fear of an “intifada” brewing in his own country. Three years of lying, betrayal and cowardice by M. Chirac have lead his country exactly nowhere. So now France stands on the edge of their own “Palestinian” problem. Appeasement of Muslim terror was a short sighted plan and now the French will pay the consequences. Lack of integration, institutional racism, poor education, and unemployment has created breeding grounds for terrorist recruitment, anger and crime. M. Chirac cannot blame President Bush for this. These riots with Apellation d’Origine of a purely French nature are a dangerous lesson for those who choose to ignore the facts. Free healthcare, while admirable, does not make up for unemployment, lack of a stake in society, racism, or failed integration.
We can only hope that France uses the same restraint on their fellow citizens that they demand of the Israelis. What a sad and dangerous game France has played and unfortunately, the result of this game will have far reaching consequences in Europe and eventually the world.
First it was a riot. Now it is a insurgency. Let me know when it is a revolution.
No it was more to do with France trying to be a world power and go her own way, as did Russia and China.
It's confusing. He seems to be referring to the Muslim riots in January.
The participants in the current riots - which I guess are still going on - are middle class college students who don't want the French employment policies liberalized to permit temporary jobs, firing at the discretion of the employer, etc. IIRC, this same group rioted last year when the French government attempted to cut the amount of a stipend that French college students receive.
Too bad france is not the only one playing at the appeasement game.
I suspect that our 'alienated yutes' friends are also involved in the current riots in the streets. 'The Interior Ministry said that 250K took to the streets in 80 cities across France' -- one of those articles said, posted 3/16/06!
These student riots have been going on for over a week now.
Probably won't happen until the last boomer who came of age in that youth-worshipping time frame dies (maybe not even then).
How can it be an insurgency if it's just a bunch of disgruntled middle-class students? And labor union commies? And Muzzies? And ????
How can it be an insurgency if it's just a bunch of disgruntled middle-class students? And labor union commies? And Muzzies? And ????
That is what the title of this thread calls it: Insurgents In France
Of course it is an insurgency. They are leaving out some of the salient points, I do believe.
Unfortunately something is going to have to be done to save the french, again, because muslim fanatics cannot be allowed to have nukes, even french nukes.
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