[Dallas59]

People power grips France..

Expect blackouts soon...

[Tzimisce]

""The government must create jobs," Victor, an economics student tells me as he prepares to march again."

They have HUGE problems in France if this is the attitude of business students.

[msnimje]

These are the same people who do not have enough "power" to get and/or keep at a job?

[Congressman Billybob]

Now, let's see. If I were a Sorbonne graduate applying for a job, how would my job application read?

I majored in Marxist studies. I took part in riots where we smashed windows and burned cars, to make the government keep a law that guarantees me a job for life (or until your company goes bankrupt). Based on that, I want you to hire me.

Did I miss anything?

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "2nd Report on the Campaign for the NC 11th Distrrict"

[Polybius]

People power grips France .......... Hundreds of thousands of people - mostly students - have taken to the streets in France....."To the barricades!" is the cry heard again ......

"I called it mob rule and gave them a whiff of grapeshot!"

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Let these "people" have at it here, and they'll run right into the muzzle of the 2nd Amendment.

[Jaysun]

"The government must create jobs," Victor, an economics student tells me as he prepares to march again.

Pathetic. They're protesting a plan which would make it easier for them to be fired at short notice. Apparently, the purpose of business in France is to benefit the worker. They expect people to take risk - to invest time and money - in new businesses for the benefit of strangers. Good luck.

[Savage Beast]

"France today does feel like a tinder box, a nation dancing on a volcano"

It is. Very much like France in 1788!

"As the world around them changes at a baffling rate, her students want the old certainties back"

This is the only certainty: In a matter of decades la belle France will be a Muslim theocracy, with the Koran as the constitution and the shariah as French national law, and Arabic, not French, will be the national language.

"It is true that politically, a war has begun for the very soul of France, to decide how it faces the future."

France faces the future as an Islamic theocracy.

"Such odd revolutionaries. No heartfelt cry to change the world, but a plea for everything to stay the same."

Nothing will stay the same. The coming Islamic Revolution threatens to be as terrible as the revolution of 1789. Pray that it will not! Pray that the French people awaken in time to save themselves.

[JAWs]

The trappings of revolution applied to dreams of reaction. That's the modern left in a nutshell.

[TChad]

They love the smell of Renaults burning in the morning. Smells like... surrender.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Mob rule, This is called democracy.

[Visalia]

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.

[dfwgator]

How did that 'people power' thing work out for the French in 1795?

[Mike Darancette]

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.

[proxy_user]

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.

[PzLdr]

Actually, that's a mistranslation from the French. The phrase is : "Dipsh*t Power".

[grounhog]

socialism fails again.....

[rebel_yell2]

We are not far behind, as Ted Kennedy pushes to raise the minimum wage yet again . . . .

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I had to chuckle at this quote from the article:

A recent survey suggested that for most of the young in France, the real dream is to become a civil servant - a fonctionnaire. To work in government offices with regular hours, long holidays, and a 35 hour working week.

The French "youths" sure know how to dream big, don't they?