this "semi-organized" resistance is being promoted by France's largest media conglomerates through the French rap/hiphop/urban culture market. France's largest corporations are advertising and branding the rappers' product too.
CocaCola in France is now advertising on video websites that already had hundreds if not thousands of jihadi video clips on it before Coke signed on as an advertiser.
Unless the summer of '68 crowd stop the televised revolution, the youth revolutionaries of '05 will replace the '68er's bloodlines in the French halls of power.
There's no way to stop the televising, etc. France is a free country.
But the French are not stupid. This has the scent of organized thuggery of the union movement sort. It's the sort of thing the radical left does. Royal was ready to use it against Sarkozy, or to try to, but I just don't think the French are going to be swayed to vote AGAINST Sarkozy because there are voyous in the streets (or train stations) again, causing havoc. This accentuates the difference between the Socialist appease-them-through affirmative-action-and-ignore-the-lawbreaking approach, as opposed to the UMP appease-them-through-affirmative-action-but-enforce-the-law approach.
I don't think this is going to hurt Sarkozy. It might help him a little. The big winner here, I believe, will be Le Pen, because the beat-their-asses-and-drive-them-from-the-country approach of the Archie Bunker of French politics is precisely what a lot of French people, especially men, think in the back of their minds when they see these punks doing this crap. A whiff of grapeshot would have cleared the Gare du Nord. We're too civilized for it nowadays, but the impulse is still there. Reason will prevail, which is why I think Sarkozy will not be hurt. The anger will remain, which is why I think Royal will not be helped. And more people will be exasperated enough to vote for Le Pen. Just as long as those Le Peniste votes come from the fragmented right, it doesn't change the outcome.