If it's got to be a pig, I nominate this guy's offspring.
Posted on 10/05/2007 10:34:44 AM PDT by Republicain
Saint-Dizier, France - French police clashed overnight with youths who went on a rampage in a town in eastern France, prompting Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to travel to the trouble spot.
Between 40 and 50 masked youths used metal bars to smash a firefighters' vehicle and a police car dispatched to a shopping mall in Saint-Dizier, said Yves Guillot, the head of the Haute-Marne regional government.
The youths then fanned out across the town of 30 000 inhabitants, setting fire to two buildings, a car rental office and 16 vehicles. Police reinforcements were sent in to quell the violence.
"We are trying to understand what happened. We have had clashes in our town but not on this scale," said Mayor Francois Cornut-Gentille.
The youths are said to be residents of Saint-Dizier's low-income housing project, Vert-bois, which is home to 12 000 people.
Alliot-Marie was due to travel to Saint-Dizier, some 200km east of Paris, after police and fire emergency authorities were targeted in the violence, her office said.
Hundreds of suburbs across France exploded into rioting for three weeks in late 2005, highlighting the nation's failure to integrate its Arab and African immigrants.
I think you need to move.
I’ve been thinking. We need a national animal, sort of like the national bird.
What about a pig?
Your work there is well remembered and much admired, Hammer.
a pig would be good just as long as we don’t dress it up in clothes—a naked pig, just like God made it
It’s that time of the year again already?
Yep - it's all the burning Renaults and Citroens.
OMG I caught myself looking for the Looter Guy in that picture - not examining the actual picture itself.
It’s those darned Amish again, right?
Probably Christian malcontents.
LOL
My husband is in late seventies and he had the proverbial farmboy upbringing-had to milk the cows before school. Walked to a country school, carrying a leftover biscuit and, hopefully a piece of bacon for lunch. In HS could not play sports because he had chores. Turned out to be a good, hardworking, responsible man.Our kids, now from 45 to 52, had responsibilities at home or they didn't get their allowance. They griped, but all learned how to work. It is a good character builder.
Too many free handouts make lazy, gimme characters, and the Dems are busy inventing more<.p>vaudine
Here's a map of the city, with the "off limits to non-Muslims" area marked in red. You're right. It is about one third of the town.
This comes from a French publication which shows the hundreds of ATLAS DES ZONES URBAINES SENSIBLES "off limits" areas in France, which native non-Muslim Frenchmen are warned to avoid for their own safety.
And we still remember that. Along with other incidents which led to our departure.
If it's got to be a pig, I nominate this guy's offspring.
I mean really, a car fire in October?
Lack of a father, who is not needed to provide for the physical needs of the mother and children seems to be a big factor as well.
Even if the father is present, which is probably the case with these French Muzzies, if he's not the provider, and is not respected by the mother and children, because they don't see him *doing* anything, also contributes to the "Rage".
And then when that rage is directed by a Mad Mullah at the local Mosque, you get this sort of thing, or worse.
Well, he is mighty fine pig.
With a pig like that as the national mammal, the Diamondback Rattler being the national reptile (Don't Tread On Me!), we would have little problem with lack of cojones.
They refuse to talk about Marcel’s death...
Yes they are internalizing, and their angst is manifesting in this violence.
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