I just listened to some French twit on the BBC saying that the youths were all French born and they had no jobs and nothing to do, so they HAD to pick up sticks and stones and throw them at the police blah blah blah.
It just makes me sick. My parents grew up in the Great Depression. These 'youths' do not even come close to living in the degree of poverty that my parents lived in. My parents had no welfare or government health care. My parents had no electricity or even running water in their homes. I guess Momma and Daddy didn't realize that all they could do was pick up sticks and stones and throw them at the police. My father became a police officer!
Being poor is no excuse for a lack of morals. Nothing gives you the right to hurt innocent people and ruin their property. The scum burning everything belong in jail. The scum that are shooting and trying to hurt people belong in the morgue.
Your missing the point and should not make that comparison. It isn't fair to your elders.
If the media were doing its job they would be telling the truth that is is Muslim fanatics doing the rioting...because they hate all things western..... it has ZERO to do with poverty as these immigrants in France would be even poorer in their native countries.
Isn't it amazing that Appalachian people live in rough conditions and we don't hear about the Appalachian people erupting in violence? There is always a convenient excuse for violence.