Riot police seal off Paris streets as protests escalate

Mail & Guardian (South Africa) ^ | 25 March 2006 | Mail & Guardian

[Mark]

"There are now kids in the worst areas of the suburbs who are being born into families where the parents have never worked. It is desperate."

That sounds a lot like the liberal Mecca in the U.S.

[the invisib1e hand]

are they still at it over there?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Between the muslims and these spoiled socialist french brats, Paris is soon going to resemble a Detroit ghetto.

[the invisib1e hand]

That sounds a lot like the liberal Mecca in the U.S.

It does. one would be tempted to think the welfare state and the victim mentality is a strategy for the ruin of a nation perpetrated by an enemy....

I've been fighting off thinking about the possibility of this anarchy spreading to the bored, discontented of this generation in places besides France...

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Sacre Bleu! We ah losing ah welfare state! What must we do, mon ami?"

"We will burn ze cars!"

"But zere ah none left!"

"Oh. Zen we....be really ah-nnoying and rude and zen run away and hide when we ah done!"

"We do zat anyway, mon ami."

"Oh. Zen it is ze business as usual, non?"

[Viking2002]

Yet Socialists still keep banging their heads against the wall, thinking that if they do it long enough, it'll stop hurting.

'The definition of insanity -- doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.' - Ben Franklin

[sarasmom]

Ever heard of a city named New Orleans?

[sarasmom]

NOLA is proud of their French heritage...

[bboop]

'Use your words' -- isn't that what we teach the Kindergartners?? But when you're a 'yute' then you get so frustrated you have to HIT??? I don't know ....

[Free ThinkerNY]

My heart bleeds for the French. We should send an emergency shipment of white flags to help them surrender to the barbarians in their midst.

[Billthedrill]

It says a lot about our society that people feel the need to express themselves with bats and metal bars.

Yes, it does - it says they expect to get away with it. I'm thinking a few property owners expressing themselves with 12-gauge shotguns might encourage the ones with bats to find another medium of communication.

[Jack Black]

So, lets see the Muslim 'youths' are mad that they are not allowed to get jobs. The French 'youths' are made that they can be fired from their jobs.

For once the Muslims have a more righteous cause! Mark this day.

Apparently smashing up cars, brandishing baseball bats and fighting with the police is the French equivelent of our primary system, in that it helps select the next candidate for Prime Minister. A Prime Minister, from what I can tell is the equivelent of our Vice President. :-)

[SE Mom]

Ahhh yes, the civilized French culture...full of appreciation for the things in life we American barbarians cannot understand...

A day of W O R K means you E A R N a day of pay. A simple concept, oui?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

The French are going to have to start making cars out of asbestos if this keeps up.

[pabianice]

Eurabia Death Watch Update.

[Chode]

Tant piss...

[Mister Da]

I read a while back that Paris had serious traffic & parking problems. Problem solved! :)

[Hot Tabasco]

There are now kids in the worst areas of the suburbs who are being born into families where the parents have never worked.

Detroit

[Revolting cat!]

Detroit

Or. on the other hand, the best areas like the Hamptons, and the Rockefeller kids, the Kennedys, and so on...