[Prime Choice]

VIOLENCE continued early yesterday in deprived city areas of France with at least 374 cars burnt out and 212 arrests, despite an official ban on public meetings in an attempt to curb riots that have rocked the nation.

If George W. Bush had showed this kind of multi-week mishandling of a crisis in the U.S., the Dems and the media would be calling for his head.

...but the French screw the poodle and it's no big deal to the MSM or other appeasenik Leftists.

[goldstategop]

Looks like the French are apathetic about restoring order. They should declare martial law. I guess they haven't for its "too American."

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Lancer_N3502A]

Chirac has vision of the last days of Rome and says: "Oh dear what will we do now?"

[ARCADIA]

French ban on public meetings not effective

France is ineffective. It is amazing that our opinion of France could go even lower. The country's idiotic leadership doesn't seem to be in control of much its palace gates.

[DB]

I wonder how many are burning their own cars now to collect the insurance? No one would ask any questions at this point...

[Beckwith]

Regarding the lower "burned-car-count?"

Could be because people are no longer parking their cars on the streets, so there are fewer vehicles for yutes to burn.

Besides a church or school is such a bigger fire and attacks Christianity or government.

I see this as the beginning of something. The nuanced French solution of throwing money at the problem won't work. Muslim yutes will use the money to buy weapons.

The nuanced French are in deep doo-doo and haven't a clue.

[SamAdams76]

Sounds like the MSM has a template for this story and all they do each night is change a few numbers. Eventually, a few hundred cars torched in a night will become the norm and not big news at all.

In fact, I think we are already at this point. It might take 1,000 cars in an night to put this story back on the front pages.