Posted on 10/22/2006 4:34:16 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
French police face 'permanent intifada'
By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 15 minutes ago
On a routine call, three unwitting police officers fell into a trap. A car darted out to block their path, and dozens of hooded youths surged out of the darkness to attack them with stones, bats and tear gas before fleeing. One officer was hospitalized, and no arrests made.
The recent ambush was emblematic of what some officers say has become a near-perpetual and increasingly violent conflict between police and gangs in tough, largely immigrant French neighborhoods that were the scene of a three-week paroxysm of rioting last year.
One small police union claims officers are facing a "permanent intifada." Police injuries have risen in the year since the wave of violence.
National police reported 2,458 cases of violence against officers in the first six months of the year, on pace to top the 4,246 cases recorded for all of 2005 and the 3,842 in 2004. Firefighters and rescue workers have also been targeted and some now receive police escorts in such areas.
On Sunday, a band of about 30 youths, some wearing masks, forced passengers out of a bus in a southern Paris suburb in broad daylight Sunday, set it on fire, then stoned firefighters who came to the rescue, police said. No one was injured. Two people were arrested, one of them a 13-year-old, according to LCI television.
More broadly, worsening violence in France testifies to Europe's growing struggle to integrate its ethnic minorities. Some mainstream European politicians adopting positions previously confined largely to far-right fringes are suggesting that the minorities themselves are not doing enough to adapt to European mores.
In Britain, former Foreign Minister Jack Straw, now leader of the House of Commons,
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Or perhaps it's somebody's plan to allow things to spiral to a point where the French populace will agree to the most drastic measures
Jeeze, gonzo, you talk like the article said those french hooligans were muzzies or something.
I suppose that could be. The only real solution short of massive violence is to deport them, and that's politically impossible unless there is a transformation in attitudes.
Well for heavens sake! What do the French expect? Honestly, I'll bet they're giving them cheap wine when they use food stamps and have failed to give these poor chaps an all-expense-paid vacation on the Riviera, so no wonder they are rioting! It's all so seemple, you see. Ah-h-h-h, let us go to thee cafe and deescuss all theese, Pierre...
Good idea-let's redeploy the Fwench to Haiti before they try to immigrate here.
Hopefully, we won't be as slow to learn
You're kidding right? We have a good possiblity of having the Comrades Clintoon back in the W.H. and the likes of Madeline Not-Bright toasting the Mullahs, and some of our ELEMENTARY schools already REQUIRE students to take a course in Islam, and you think the day isn't fast approaching when Shiria law will prevail? I sincerely, hope you are right and I am wrong, my fellow FRer.
France will not have a choice but to give up land to the Muslims.
It's called elections and over time the 'land' will be ALL of France. Not that I care, mind you. Glad I visited France all those many years ago when it was indeed romantic and beautiful. I'm also glad I saw Notre Dame, as it probably won't be around in 10-20 years and will be just a pile of rubble.
We need to learn some lessons from this. I don't think as a society here we should encourage immigrant clustering if we can avoid it. We should be setting the stage for the second generation immigrants to move into the mainstream
A very important point that I have never forgotten, that I learned long ago: in generations past, immigrants DID cluster and it was for a VERY good reason. Namely the ones who had come earlier TAUGHT the later arrivals how to behave in the new country. For example, one of the first lessons learned was that when the new arrival tossed the slop bucket contents out the window onto the sidewalk in New York, the neighbors immediately said, "Ya vol! Vee do not do theese here!" Unfortunately, these current immigrants believe that we longer-term citizens are supposed to adapt to the practice of tossing the slop busket contents out the window.
the French populace will agree to the most drastic measures
No, it will never happen. This is one reason why American liberals (Kerry comes to mind) adore the French. It is because they TALK AND TALK AND TALK about something but NEVER take any action. It ees goood to haff theeese leetle talks, vu seee, no?
The civilized countries of the world have no qualms about slaughtering their own innocent unborn who have caused no problems. Yet hesitate to blow away the young thugs spawned by illegal aliens who with the blessings of their chicken sh*t parents are hell bent on destroying civilizations.
Come on now... FRENCH
Surrender is the French way of life. This is why the violence and riots continue in France.
Clustering of immigrants worked great for tens of decades here in the U.S. See Little Italy, Chinatown, etc., in most big cities. One of problems is that some countries encourage people to claim that they are deserving of everything that they **want**. These people drop all humility and morals and start taking what they want, behaving like animals.
This is a complex issue, with the immigrants being both perpetrator and victim. The first thing I would do is resolve to not rebuild the projects that isolate the immigrants and create this culture. The immigrants continue to destroy the buildings, and the government keeps replacing them. Just condemn and knock down the buildings one at a time as they become uninhabitable. This will force the residents out, into the mainstream of the cities. I would not build new projects for them anywhere, they must disperse, and integrate with the rest of France. For those who can do that, fine, for those who won't, build extra prisons, maybe the size of the projects themselves. And the choice will be with each immigrant to integrate, or not.
Only for as long as they are afraid to take out their belt-fed machine guns and shoot down as many Muslim thugs as it takes to keep order. If that turns out to be all of them, so much the better.
-ccm
Oh lord, just shoot them. They are threatening a police officer with deadly force.
This is just like Burgess' 1985.
Actually it is quite reasonable and appropriate. No government should stand by idly when there is widespread insurrection. They should machine-gun the crowds until they stop rioting, even if that means tens of thousands of corpses in the streets, or indeed means slaughtering every Muslim in France. No pity, no mercy, no apology. It is time for the Europeans to take their countries back from the invaders.
-ccm
LOLROFLMAO!!
Thanks, pal. I guess the frog-coppers don't have guns anymore. If I'm armed, and some asshole throws rocks at me, and I'm a Cop - With a GUN..., well, I guess I'd explain to him, the folly of bringing a rock to a gunfight!
But that's just me, I guess...............FRegards
..."I tell ya, guys, that Lee-kid is like Texas-toilet-paper! He won't take shit offa anyone!...
At least rubber bullets and some kind of paint balls that identify the little bastards for a week or so.
"On Sunday, a band of about 30 youths, some wearing masks, forced passengers out of a bus in a southern Paris suburb in broad daylight Sunday, set it on fire, then stoned firefighters who came to the rescue, police said. No one was injured. Two people were arrested, one of them a 13-year-old, according to LCI television."
IT'S A QUAGMIRE! Time to pull out of ... er, Paris.
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