Posted on 12/09/2006 7:24:02 PM PST by T.L.Sink
The following morning, the police came to collect him, and he asked them what kind of place this was. Why was everything made of concrete? 'But don't you know where you are monsieur?' they asked. C'est la Zone, c'est la Zone!' La Zone is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
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Mutatis mutandi, Detroit, and soon, America.
Recently a Mexican woman beat up an American woman outside a store for "looking at her wrong." The American complained to the security guard, who blamed the American. That was in Phoenix, in a good part of town.
I was standing in line at an IHOP in Phoenix when a short Mexican man tried to start something with me. I ignored him but waited before I left the restaurant. The Mexican woman major domo was incensed that it happened.
Coming to a town near you, soon.
Right- our invasion is encouraged by special business interests who love those cheap wages with no basic benefits and by politicians from both parties pandering for votes.
Every serious study has proved that the illegal tsunami costs us far more than they contribute to the economy. By the way, did you catch Dalrymple's mention of multiculturalism as a contributing factor to the eventual ruin of every society that is controlled by PC thought?
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Indeed, the day is fast approaching when the French will long for such reassurance.
How many times I have walked--alone and with my wife--through the streets of Paris and many other French cities and towns at all hours of the night and day with never an incident. Ah youth--but I betray my age!
Maybe Mexico won't want as much from me in taxes(?)
I did not catch that, but that is like saying water is wet.
By the way, I finished an MA recently. One required course was in multi-culturalism.
Antagonism toward the police might appear understandable, but the conduct of the young inhabitants of the cités toward the firemen who come to rescue them from the fires that they have themselves started gives a dismaying glimpse into the depth of their hatred for mainstream society.
Hubby is a retired firefighter (recent) who worked in a 97% hispanic town (alot of illegals). They were issued bullet proof vests. Their station was the target of a drive by shooting. There is an area of bars, the firefighters call it "The Iron Triangle", that when they would drive through the alley the people would throw beer bottles at the truck.
So glad he retired. This is closer to reality than many people think.
I have no sympathy or compassion for cop-haters. When people get away with antagonism toward our safety forces, society begins to crumble. I agree with Luther - the state weilds the sword for the common good. Sometimes bad things happen, but I would rather have too much enforcement than too little.
Societal transformation has resulted in a new set of rules about right and wrong, everything turned upside-down. France is the canary in the coal mine. We are doomed to follow if things do not change. They will not change under the banner of compassionate conservatism or RINO bi-partisanship.
I think one of the most poignant sentences Dalrymple made in his essay is this: "...an effective police force is as vital a guarantee of personal freedom as a free press and that the thin blue line that separates man from brutality is exactly that: thin."
Of course, the police sometimes fall short of professional standards. Who doesn't? But the point is that in our PC society we've done too much to render them impotent and ineffective in their efforts to maintain safety and security in the public domain.
If either of you would like me to send you a story of how this happened to the LAPD, please advise. Regards,
I read this four years ago when it came out. I sent it to a business colleague, who is unfortunately a typical liberal. She was outraged by the "tone" of the article. Balderdash. Now, of course, people know that Dalrymple was right on target.
I walked through Paris alone at night in 2000 and everything was OK, more or less, in the center of the city. I don't know if that's still true today.
I'm in Phoenix. We are not far gone yet, but it may happen.
A Paris suburb named a street for murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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