[MadIvan]

France is going to hell in a handbasket.

Regards, Ivan

[maggief]

Searching Yahoo! images, "hooded youths."



http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=hooded+youths&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&c=news_photos

[P.O.E.]

My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police

Can't have them being called any nasty names, now, so we'll just let them sit back and watch.

[MinuteGal]

I think France's whole problem is neatly summed up in these two sentences: "I'm deeply worried because we're seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot" said minister Sarkozy. "My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police so THESE PEOPLE CAN PROTEST IN SAFETY."

Think about these words for a few minutes.

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, Stupidite.

Leni

[Screamname]

Oh man, don`t even get me started on that game. When it first came out in the `90`s it was like video crack, I couldn`t stop playing it.

[wgflyer]

Our own riots are soon to come, only OUR politicians will join the rioters. Once our own illegals fully understand that their voting status is made irrelevant by their numbers in the streets they will use public demonstrations and rioting more and more. This will create a backlash that is going to be very, very unfortunate. I can see it coming and I think Washington neither understands nor cares.

[Savage Beast]

Sarkozy may be deeply worried, but not deeply enough. Within a few years, a majority of the population of France will be "casseurs". When the "casseurs" take over the country, today's unleashing of violence will look like a teaparty.

"'In France, we always imagine violence to be political because of our revolutions, but this isn't the case,' said Sebastian Roché, a political scientist who specialises in delinquency in the suburbs.

'The casseurs are people who are apart from the political protests. Their movement is apolitical. It is about banal violence - thefts, muggings, aggression.'"

And for this, Sebastian wins THE OSTRICH AWARD of 2006!

(Marie Antoinette won it back in 1789.)

This violence is absolutely political--nothing else!

And this guy "specialises in delinquency in the suburbs"???

Obviously Roché would consider the 1789 Revolution "apolitical" too! The impending "apolitical" Revolution threatens to make the 1789 Revolution look like a stroll in the garden.

The French are really good at a few things: cuisine, wine, and denial.

[Savage Beast]

Oh yeah. And the French have a real flair for coining cute phrases. (Merci, TS.)

[Buffettfan]

Isn't diversity and multiculturalism wonderful? A sign of things to come here in the good old USA as brown separatists carve out their chuck of the USA known as AZTLAN.

[expatpat]

President Jacques Chirac, who was prime minister at the time, withdrew the initiative; the education minister was forced to resign.

The French talent for surrender is unequalled.

[6SJ7]

...violence that has marred the protests has been by young men, largely immigrants or the children of immigrants, from tough, underprivileged suburbs, who roam in groups... Some of the youths even share instant war trophies: photographs and short scenes of violence and vandalism they have captured on their mobile phones.

Underprivileged... with the latest picture cell phones.

[Right Wing Assault]

Because they beat someone to death 20 years ago, the police stand around and do nothing. Good Plan.

If the citizens had guns, there would be a lot less car burning.

[Ben Chad]

It's no wonder the British dug the channel to keep the French out. ;-)

[SAMS]

BRING BACK THE BASTILLE!!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[In live coverage of the mass protests in Paris, CNN compared the protests to the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in Beijing.]

Utter nonsense by CNN. There is no comparison whatsoever between brave Chinese risking life and limb by protesting in favor of democracy and these spoiled French socialists risking nothing more than a bath from a water hose by protesting to be given more while providing less to society.

[dighton]

"I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot," said embattled interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy. "My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety."

Mistakes like thwacking a few thugs, pour encourager les autres?

You're not kidding about the handbasket.

[Vision]

Nice protest. Photos like this make me glad I live in a country with highest rate of incarnation per capita.

[TASMANIANRED]

You can use water cannons when it is just property.

When they start attacking people,,,shoot them.

[OldPossum]

A modest proposal: why not just shoot looters on sight? Maybe 2,000 to 3,000 bullets later the problem will be solved. Too logical? Yeah, I thought so.

[Doogle]

..perhaps itdis time for le rubber bullets no?

[Cincinna]

"casseurs" "thugs" "jeunes". They never do mention exactly who 90 + % of these people are. They are young men of Muslim origin, North African and African immigrants who don't work and don't attend school.

France is a country on the brink of chaos and anarchy. As usually they have their heads in the sand and wave the white flag of surrender at the first sign of problems.