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To: Cincinna

Time to get perceptive here.

Yes, people burning cars is a problem.
Ditto for people burning cafes.
Ditto for people burning trucks full of produce.
Ditto for people tearing down businesses, like McDonald's, in anger.

What do those four things have in common?
Over the past 5 years the first was done by Beurs.
The second was done by students protesting labor laws.
The third was done by unions, angry about cheap imported competition.
The fourth was done by environmentalist nationalists led by Bove.

None of the four instances of heavy property damage was particularly deadly. It follows the French pattern of a higher regard for life than property. The BEURS, in the first case, followed that French example was well. Destroying property is crappy, but it's not jihad, not unless French students, unionists and Bove are all jihadists too. The Beurs have been acculturated. That's a GOOD thing, even if expressed in a negative here. Burning cars is not bombing trains. It's a French thing.


40 posted on 03/01/2007 8:43:04 AM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: Vicomte13
Destroying property is crappy, but it's not jihad, not unless French students, unionists and Bove are all jihadists too. The Beurs have been acculturated. That's a GOOD thing, even if expressed in a negative here. Burning cars is not bombing trains. It's a French thing.

Very good point

41 posted on 03/02/2007 2:15:56 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. -Mark Twain)
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