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LIVE THREAD: French Riots
April 4, 2006 | FR

Posted on 04/04/2006 10:33:28 AM PDT by Peach

Post your observations here.

Richard Miniter was on FNC and said that even if an employee is caught on videotape stealing from their employers, they cannot be fired.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: eurabia; france; french; frogs; girlieguys; girliemen; nannystate; opendoorimmigration; parisriots; riots; socialism; vichi; vichifrance; yoots
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To: Petronski; cyborg


That's ok. cy told me she wants to spend her honeymoon looking at ceilings. For a minute, I thought you two had decided on Rome...lol.


221 posted on 04/04/2006 11:20:45 AM PDT by onyx (Elections are in November, 06 ---- 08 can wait!)
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To: stevio
Just turned over to CNN and their reporting that the most violent protesters or rioters are Muslim immigrants.

I didn't think I would ever hear CNN admit that immigrants could be problem makers not solvers.

I'm thinking that as long as the economy stays fairly good the illegals will be no problems.

However, once Americans start competing for the (jobs Americans will not do) then the problems will magnify and manifest into real trouble for average citizens.

Your right, People like Kennedy can isolate themselves away on Martha's Vineyard.
222 posted on 04/04/2006 11:21:10 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: Mcirrus
I can't wait until they storm the Bastille and behead the king and queen.

Oh wait...wrong riot.

223 posted on 04/04/2006 11:21:14 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: mass55th




A protestors smashes a shop window during a student demonstration against the First Job Contract (CPE) in Lille, France, April 4, 2006. (Jean-Pierre Rafto/Reuters) Reuters - 8 minutes ago

224 posted on 04/04/2006 11:21:24 AM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: maggief


Good grief.
LOL!


225 posted on 04/04/2006 11:21:32 AM PDT by onyx (Elections are in November, 06 ---- 08 can wait!)
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To: Peach

Will never happen.


226 posted on 04/04/2006 11:21:44 AM PDT by Windsong (Jesus Saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups)
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To: YaYa123

I don't care for Kalb's commentaries either. He's like a fish out of water there. I don't understand their hires of recent years.


227 posted on 04/04/2006 11:21:44 AM PDT by twigs
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To: onyx

Heh!


228 posted on 04/04/2006 11:21:49 AM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: All

Latest Paris Demonstration Turns Violent

JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press Writer

UPDATE

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/france_job_protests;_ylt=AiL8qzjreYwE35lhC0N_1ZWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

PARIS - Demonstrators opposed to a new jobs law swarmed parts of downtown Paris on Tuesday, throwing stones, tearing down street signs and ripping up park benches. Riot police, firing tear gas canisters and making several charges, carried away protesters in handcuffs.

Police said at least 1 million people poured into the streets around the country in the latest protests against the law, which makes it easier to fire young workers. Organizers said 3 million people marched.

A nationwide strike shut down the Eiffel Tower and snarled air and rail travel for the second time in a week while students barricaded themselves in schools.

It was the second time in a week that unions and student groups had succeeded in mobilizing such numbers. The largest march, in Paris, drew at least 80,000 people, while 935,000 marched in other parts of the country, police said.

Organizers put the figure in the capital at 700,000.

Violence erupted at the end of the largest protest, in Paris, with youths pelting police with stones, fighting and using metal bars to break up chunks of pavement that they hurled at helmeted riot officers.

One young woman twirled flaming batons. The sounds of blowing whistles were heard throughout the plaza.

Officers carrying batons and shields charged several times, making arrests.

Protesters have mounted ever-larger demonstrations for two months against the law. But President Jacques Chirac signed it anyway Sunday, saying it will help France keep pace with the global economy.

He offered modifications, but students and unions rejected them, saying they want the law withdrawn, not softened.

"What Chirac has done is not enough," said Rebecca Konforti, 18, who was among a group of students who jammed tables against the door of their high school in southern Paris to block entry. "They're not really concessions. He just did it to calm the students."

By midday, police said at least 100,000 people had hit French streets, including buoyant students parading through Marseille under a sunny southern sky and major marches from Nantes in the west to Saint-Etienne in the southeast. Protests even reached the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, where 2,000 people marched.

Some 60 students lobbed eggs and other objects at police in the northern city of Lille, and at least one person was detained.

Organizers, who said the turnout was in the hundreds of thousands, hoped it would exceed the 1 million who marched last week. The afternoon march in Paris promised to be the biggest, and the city deployed 4,000 police to avert violence that marred previous protests.

Police actively looked to thwart troublemakers. At Paris' Saint-Lazare station, riot officers with weapons and a police dog pulled over train travelers disembarking from the suburbs, searching their bags and checking identities.

Tourists, meanwhile, stood bewildered before closed gates at the Eiffel Tower. Parisian commuters flattened themselves onto limited subway trains. Garbage bins in some Paris neighborhoods stood overflowing and uncollected by striking sanitation workers.

Irish budget airline Ryanair canceled all its flights in and out of France.

The strike appeared weaker, however, than last week's action. Signs of a possible breakthrough began to emerge as labor leaders suggested they could hold talks with lawmakers after Tuesday's demonstrations.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin devised the disputed "first job contract" as a bid to boost the economy and stem chronic youth unemployment. He maintains it would encourage hiring by allowing employers to fire workers under 26 during their first two years on a job without giving a reason.

The measure is meant to cut a 22 percent unemployment rate among youths that reaches 50 percent in some poor, heavily immigrant neighborhoods. Villepin has cited the national statistics agency as saying it would create up to 80,000 new jobs at zero cost to the state.

Critics say it threatens France's hallmark labor protections, and the crisis has severely damaged Villepin's political reputation.

Chirac stepped in Friday to order two major modifications — reducing a trial period of two years to one year and forcing employers to explain any firings — in hopes of defusing the crisis. In so doing, he dealt a blow to Villepin, his one-time top aide and apparent choice as successor next year.

In an apparent first in France, Chirac signed the original measure into law this weekend, as promised, but also effectively suspended it with an order that it not be applied. The 73-year-old president's legal sleight of hand kept the law alive while a new version is in the works.

Now that the law has been signed, protesters have less maneuvering room. The government appeared to be hoping that protests would die down after Tuesday's big event and was looking to possible talks between more moderate unions and lawmakers led by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy, a leading presidential hopeful, is the only senior government official unscathed by the crisis.

The head of the governing UMP party's bloc in parliament, Bernard Accoyer, told reporters he had invited labor leaders to talks.

Two labor leaders — CFDT union chief Francois Chereque and CGT union chief Bernard Thibault — suggested they would attend. But both said they hoped the law eventually would be rejected.


229 posted on 04/04/2006 11:21:59 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Have you hugged an illegal alien today?)
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To: tiredoflaundry


OKIE DOKIE.
See you on the other thread soon.


230 posted on 04/04/2006 11:22:15 AM PDT by onyx (Elections are in November, 06 ---- 08 can wait!)
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To: mass55th

I seem to remember Tuesday might be one of their days off- when I took French, in elementary school, I remember being horrified to find out kids went to school on Sat!

But I think this might be vacation month, in a week or so. So it might work out well for you.


231 posted on 04/04/2006 11:22:19 AM PDT by I still care ("For it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: maggief

That's a way to show that you are mature enough to get a job for life.


232 posted on 04/04/2006 11:23:15 AM PDT by twigs
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To: Peach

Since McCain thinks we ought to be influenced by street 'protests' do you think he's calling Chirac now and telling him to cave to the rioters?


233 posted on 04/04/2006 11:23:34 AM PDT by OldFriend (AMERICA WOULD NOT BE THE LAND OF THE FREE IF IT WERE NOT ALSO THE HOME OF THE BRAVE)
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To: LS


Students demonstrate against the controversial CPE First Job Contract in the center of Nantes, France, April 4, 2006. (Daniel Joubert/Reuters)

234 posted on 04/04/2006 11:23:38 AM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: bill1952
Better yet, the cops could dress up like Germans....

LOL

235 posted on 04/04/2006 11:24:16 AM PDT by American Quilter
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To: Carolinamom

LOL -- this is really quite a display.
An excellent show of how socialism "really" plays.

Imagine, job security for life. Unreal.



236 posted on 04/04/2006 11:24:26 AM PDT by onyx (Elections are in November, 06 ---- 08 can wait!)
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To: onyx

Ya gotta love the former Miami SWAT team guy on FNC.


237 posted on 04/04/2006 11:25:42 AM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: I still care
These are the WTO anarchists doing what they always do.

Let's not forget Canada, Seattle, Genoa, Italy, and of course D.C. where the police broke heads early on and defused the very thought of rioting.

The rabble takes to the streets, soon followed by the trade unions, the teacher's unions, etc.

They stop the country cold. No transportation, and no services. All by design.

238 posted on 04/04/2006 11:25:49 AM PDT by OldFriend (AMERICA WOULD NOT BE THE LAND OF THE FREE IF IT WERE NOT ALSO THE HOME OF THE BRAVE)
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To: maggief
Protesters? Looks more like the looters we saw during Katrina. This one even has a cart. Can someone photoshop the Heineken guy in this photo?


239 posted on 04/04/2006 11:25:52 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: YaYa123

I watch fox less and less, especially Fox and Friends in the morning. Hate it. Like weights trying to debate issues they know nothing about. Trying to please every political spectrum and pleasing no one. I'm going to start watching CNN when Glen Beck goes on.


240 posted on 04/04/2006 11:26:30 AM PDT by jackadams
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