Posted on 03/25/2006 6:24:52 PM PST by cougar_mccxxi
Hundreds of thousands of people - mostly students - have taken to the streets in France for a second week of protests against the controversial new employment contracts. Caroline Wyatt has been considering whether they might be the symptom of a greater malaise in French society.
"To the barricades!" is the cry heard again on the streets of France, as they ring to the sound of student chants.
The crisp early springtime air on the Left Bank is filled once more with the heady scent of revolution, black coffee and Gauloises.
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Wow! These dedicated commie thugs need to move to Cuba or Venezuela. There they can enjoy all the modern, healthy, happy, prosperous trappings of communism. I'm sure they would be welcomed to riot in the streets if they so chose, too.
How did that 'people power' thing work out for the French in 1795?
***""The government must create jobs," Victor, an economics student tells me as he prepares to march again." ***
Victor, try the evil capitalism scheme. The government doesn't create jobs. Capitalism does.
Let the protesters run wild, a couple of weeks without food and no police to protect them from the Muslim mob will slow them down.
Mob rule. This IS denocracy!
Especially in a Mommy state.
The Foreign Office says the French capital which has been rocked by violent demos is too dangerous.
Protests against a new employment law have erupted into riots, with fierce fighting in the shadow of famous tourist spots like the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame Cathedral.
Cars have been set alight, shops looted and gangs of youths and masked men swinging baseball bats and wooden planks have had running battles with riot police who have used water cannon and tear gas.The Foreign Office alert is a huge blow to France, which has always considered itself a haven of fashion chic and culture.
Pictures flashed around the world show a new Paris racked with class division. That was illustrated yesterday by photographs of an elegant woman in high heels set upon by youths in the trendy Esplanade des Invalides.
They harried the defenceless woman like a pack of wolves, oblivious to watching police and photographers. One ripped her handbag away while another rifled through her pockets.
Some hotels around the famous Left Bank of the River Seine usually full of romantic couples strolling hand in hand have boarded up their windows up as armoured vehicles with water cannons patrol the streets.
Pariss mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, called the situation explosive and added: The governments obstinacy is creating an extremely dangerous situation that is sinking into further violence and further danger.
French President Jacques Chirac, in Brussels at an EU summit meeting, called the violence intolerable and unacceptable and ordered authorities to punish troublemakers with all necessary severity.
The violence which has spread to other cities has led to more than 1,400 arrests and more than 450 cops being injured.
We hear this at home too from the Libs.
Tell that to a Moonbat Liberal, and a few around here.
I believe both the students and the Muslim rioters are correct, in that they feel oppressed by society.
The baby boom generation in France has gotten hold of all the good things in life, and is holding them through political power. The young feel there is nothing for them, and they are right.
While what they say is not really rational, their gut feeling is sound. They also have their youth and the threat of physical violence as their only weapon.
"Pray that it will not! Pray that the French people awaken in time to save themselves."
Nah, they're going to collaborate; some things never change. Jean-Marie Le Pen has announced his intent to align himself with the bourgeoning Muslim population, and ditch the anti-immigrant schtick he was using to try and gain support among rightwing Christians ... but there's not not enough of them, apparently. The Neofascist thing plays pretty well with the yoots, they claim.
In this country we have 100s of thousands of foreigners demonstrating in the streets.
Actually, that's a mistranslation from the French. The phrase is : "Dipsh*t Power".
socialism fails again.....
We are not far behind, as Ted Kennedy pushes to raise the minimum wage yet again . . . .
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