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French plan curfews to stop riots (BBC has a scorecard!)
BBC UK ^ | 7 November 2005 | BBC

Posted on 11/07/2005 5:24:41 PM PST by timsbella

French Riot Statistics:

One man killed 4,700 cars torched 1,200 people arrested 17 people sentenced 108 police and firefighters injured

Figures as of 7 November

"It's also the responsibility of each of us to change our behaviour, to change the way we look at people" Dominic de Villepin

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; france; fwance; insurgency; intifada; jihad; quagmire; riots; surrender; terrorism; trop; uprising
Tonight maybe they'll take over a radio station and by morning the French will be Ululating to the Oldies.
1 posted on 11/07/2005 5:24:42 PM PST by timsbella
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To: timsbella
Ululating to the Oldies

** snicker **

2 posted on 11/07/2005 5:28:14 PM PST by surely_you_jest
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To: timsbella

I heard on the radio today that the head of the police told the Govt. that they NEED the army to help. The police have been finding nice little explosives like hand grenades, and are afraid the rioters will use them, since it's obvious they have them. Chiraq says no to army. I think he's looking for a group hug.


4 posted on 11/07/2005 5:30:29 PM PST by Just Lori (Tony Schaeffer, Curt Weldon, Able Danger....... PAY ATTENTION.)
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To: timsbella
all with the same first name... Muhammed
5 posted on 11/07/2005 5:30:32 PM PST by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: Tommy-the-pissed-off-Brit
There is a lot of talk on the radio about this happening here. There would be a lot of dead aholes lying around if it happened in many parts of the US.
6 posted on 11/07/2005 5:31:04 PM PST by satchmodog9 ( Seventy million spent on the lefts Christmas present and all they got was a Scooter)
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To: Spanaway Lori

"Chiraq says no to army. I think he's looking for a group hug."

Good thing his cuddle monkey, Kofi flew in to be by his side.


7 posted on 11/07/2005 5:32:11 PM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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To: timsbella

Release the names of the Yutes, might see a pattern.


8 posted on 11/07/2005 5:33:31 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: timsbella

Wonder how the French will add style to the burqua?


9 posted on 11/07/2005 5:34:25 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: timsbella
"It's also the responsibility of each of us to change our behaviour, to change the way we look at people," Dominic de Villepin.

Here's how you should be looking at them, Dom.

11 posted on 11/07/2005 5:36:41 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: satchmodog9
There would be a lot of dead aholes lying around if it happened in many parts of the US.

The riots over there are a great advertisement for the Second Amendment over here.

12 posted on 11/07/2005 5:38:31 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
This graphic illustration should be sent to the Frog Amabassador in every country on this planet earth.
13 posted on 11/07/2005 5:39:14 PM PST by pointsal
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To: yldstrk

"Wonder how the French will add style to the burqua?"

For starters Karl Lagerfeld won't have to hide behind that silly fan.

But knowing the French, it will make anyone over size 0 will look fat. (but don't tell Suha Arafat)


14 posted on 11/07/2005 5:39:54 PM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I like that.


15 posted on 11/07/2005 5:43:21 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When I was a kid, the national news media was the GOOD GUYS.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Yeah, but it'll probably happen in big cities where The Left has already disarmed the citizenry. Allah's hordes would be stupid to try it anywhere else.


16 posted on 11/07/2005 5:44:11 PM PST by Sociopathocracy (The Left and Islamo-fascism, the twin cancers of human history.)
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To: timsbella

""It's also the responsibility of each of us to change our behaviour, to change the way we look at people" Dominic de Villepin"

Does that mean we have to start liking the French?


17 posted on 11/07/2005 5:49:23 PM PST by keats5
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To: Tommy-the-pissed-off-Brit
In Europe you can rampage all you like and 2 weeks later it's "time for talk..."

de Villepin has already laid out the terms of surrender: plenty of freebies, college scholarships, renovated housing, "employment opportunities" (workplace quotas), etc.

Funny, but I thought it was us Dirty Americans that were the racists...

18 posted on 11/07/2005 5:51:11 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Here's how you should be looking at them, Dom.

Amen, and amen. Lead them a little if they're on a scooter. Hold a little bit low when in doubt.

19 posted on 11/07/2005 5:51:20 PM PST by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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To: keats5

With the same fervor they show to 'murkuns.

I say we export our best talent as a show of faith. Let Sean Penn and Alec Baldwin get on the front lines. Gooooo team!


20 posted on 11/07/2005 5:53:49 PM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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To: timsbella
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin says... the violence "unacceptable" and outlined measures to curb the unrest that has hit 300 towns and cities. He ruled out army intervention for the moment, but said an extra 1,500 police officers are to be deployed.

Wow what a response. They will be sending an five extra cops to each town.
21 posted on 11/07/2005 5:53:54 PM PST by redheadtoo
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To: redheadtoo

"Wow what a response. They will be sending an five extra cops to each town."

All with Dickie Dee ice cream bikes, vendor licenses and change belts.


22 posted on 11/07/2005 5:55:31 PM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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To: timsbella

Chirac will be in a burka by morning.

Just think about what harboring Kohmeni all those years ago has done for france.


23 posted on 11/07/2005 5:56:55 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Conservatives are from earth. Liberals are from Uranus.)
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To: timsbella

LOL


24 posted on 11/07/2005 5:58:38 PM PST by RippleFire ("It's a joke, son!")
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To: timsbella

"It's also the responsibility of each of us to change our behaviour, to change the way we look at people" -Dominic de Villepin

From what way to what way...?

What an assinine statement. The French leadership has fairy-cakes for brains. Compare the French effete responses to Brit Blair's responses to civil crisis.
The French government and its cowardly President Chirac are not just plainly incompetent, they are bald-facedly stupid.
Small wonder that misfit John Kerry has a strong affinity with France's socialist statesmen. I mistakenly thought Kerry was attracted to the epicurean delights of froglegs and snails. Kerry seeks validation among a collective of French socialist airheads.



25 posted on 11/07/2005 5:59:11 PM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor!)
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To: timsbella

One man killed 4,700 cars torched 1,200 people arrested 17 people sentenced 108 police and firefighters injured

"and a partridge in a pear tree."


26 posted on 11/07/2005 6:04:53 PM PST by Cruz
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To: keats5
"'"It's also the responsibility of each of us to change our behaviour, to change the way we look at people"--Dominic de Villepin'

"Does that mean we have to start liking the French?"

No, but it does mean that we must stop looking to politicians like de Villepin (pronounced "the Vile Pain") to lead us and vote responsibly for candidates more like Ronald Reagan, Donald Rumsfeld, and Haley Barbour.
27 posted on 11/07/2005 6:06:41 PM PST by dufekin (US Senate: the only place where the majority [44 D] comprises fewer than the minority [55 R])
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

"The riots over there are a great advertisement for the Second Amendment over here."

I'll wager membership in NRA has increased within the past week as well as gun purchases. Support the Second Amendment with a patriot's passion. It'll bug the "liberal" brats.

BTW, lest we forget, Gilchrist is a brave patriot.


28 posted on 11/07/2005 6:06:43 PM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor!)
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To: randog

de Villepin has already laid out the terms of surrender: plenty of freebies, college scholarships, renovated housing, "employment opportunities" (workplace quotas), etc.

Sounds like what the States did to end the riots during the 60's and 70's We gave in and ushered in the greatest entitlement and anger fest that has become the boomers and the black community.


29 posted on 11/07/2005 6:07:38 PM PST by Chickensoup (Turk...turk...turk....turk....turk...turkey!!!!!!)
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To: yldstrk

". . . and today we proudly show the wardrobe designs of Omar, featuring a silken burka done in a shimmering multi-color treatment with a rainbow-like silk scarf tied about the shoulders in order to further restrict movement - tied ever so tight . . worn by the famous Parisian super model Amim who is further hobbled by one large ankle bracelet worn ever so discreetly wound about both feet . . ."


30 posted on 11/07/2005 6:15:03 PM PST by Twinkie (Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.)
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To: dufekin

"...politicians like de Villepin (pronounced "the Vile Pain")..."

I pray for the good French citizens who are probably kept blind and dumb and passive by the disinformative French state MEDIA.


31 posted on 11/07/2005 6:16:46 PM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor!)
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To: timsbella

What's next? Give them a stern talking-to?


32 posted on 11/07/2005 6:27:34 PM PST by Venerable Bede (Watch it, I say, watch it fizz, boy.)
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To: timsbella
The French are in a real pickle. They have been putting up with these Muslim terrorist wannabes for 11 days and they are STILL only THINKING about using the military. But how could they use the military? The moment they do they will be admitting to the entire world that the military is there to be USED to defend national security. And the US was justified using OUR military. Screw the French. France can burn to the ground for all I care.

But save the Louvre.

33 posted on 11/07/2005 6:35:06 PM PST by manwiththehands ("They wanted a Harley, they got a Scooter Libby." -Don Surber)
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To: timsbella
Image hosted by Photobucket.com Program... Get-yer Program... right here!!! Can't tell the New Terrorists from the OLD Terrorists without your program with it's handydandy Box-Score Card so you can keep up with the latest scores. Program... Get your Program...
34 posted on 11/07/2005 6:38:18 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: timsbella

Some things I find interesting -

Most of the early reports (actually up until the last day or two) indicated that most of the rioters were AFrican Muslims.... Yet the footage I have seen recently look a lot more like Arab Muslims - in fact, many of the scenes looked a lot like the Palestinians when they are having their rock and molitov cocktail throwing parties.


35 posted on 11/07/2005 6:39:24 PM PST by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan and a Cancer on Society)
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To: timsbella

I'm not the brightest bulb in the string, but will rioting scumbags say to themselves: "Arson, murder and assault are ok, but I will not go to prison for breaking a curfew." Then the riots just stop???


36 posted on 11/07/2005 7:16:10 PM PST by Clay Moore ("My daddy says I'm this close to living in the yard!" Ralph Wiggum)
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To: timsbella
4,700 cars torched

No loss there.

beep ... beep

37 posted on 11/07/2005 8:33:04 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: satchmodog9
There would be a lot of dead aholes lying around if it happened in many parts of the US.

True, at least here in the South. Certainly not in New England... where firearms have been effectively confiscated, and the Libs have no will to use them since they don't even know the breech from the muzzle.

38 posted on 11/07/2005 8:36:26 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: yldstrk
Wonder how the French will add style to the burqua?

A Burqua Beret, available only by Estee Lauder and Christian Dior.

No wait... this just in those two companies have been torched. Film at 11...

39 posted on 11/07/2005 8:40:17 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Man, you're on target!

Pun intended.

40 posted on 11/07/2005 8:41:43 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: purpleland
I'll wager membership in NRA has increased within the past week as well as gun purchases.

If I buy any more shooters, I'll have to buy another Fort Knox safe; then my wife will shoot me!

(Been a NRA lifer since I was a kid).

41 posted on 11/07/2005 8:47:29 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: timsbella

 

 

42 posted on 11/07/2005 9:14:44 PM PST by Fintan (I'm planting my tagline bulbs for the spring.)
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To: Cobra64

In an hypothetical civil crisis, would you consider a RENT A GUN venture?

I'm sorta in favour of psychological warfare strategicly employing Piggy Banks and swine images.


43 posted on 11/07/2005 9:32:14 PM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor!)
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To: Fintan

The only problem with the graphic is the designer - Calvin Klein is an infidel of the kind that can not be converted. Maybe something by Abu Cardin.


44 posted on 11/08/2005 6:12:30 AM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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To: timsbella

A curfew? Is that anything like "Please stay
home so our cops can go to bed?"


45 posted on 11/08/2005 6:14:29 AM PST by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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