Fanning The Flames (Barbara Simpson On How The MSM Keeps Us In The Dark About France Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 11/14/05 | Barbara Simpson

[goldstategop]

What do people think about the rioting and destruction in France? It's hard to say because beyond some "good pictures" of torched cars and firemen and police trying to deal with an out-of-control situation, we aren't getting the whole – much less the real – story.

For the third continuous week, a good part of France is in flames and wilding mobs in the streets have wreaked havoc on business areas and neighborhoods. The whole country is the victim of wanton violence and destruction.

From a news-coverage point of view, what do we get? Not much – not much accuracy and no depth. It can be blamed on ill-informed producers, editors and reporters and a politically correct bias in coverage decisions.

When the rioting began, it was barely covered. In some cases, local newspapers, notably the liberal ones, the story was first ignored or buried deep in the papers. Then, it hit the front page and, just as quickly, was buried again. How much coverage has there been of similar arsons and demonstrations in Germany, Belgium and Denmark?

News outlets love easy stories, especially natural disasters. A tsunami headlined for weeks. So does hurricane damage in New Orleans and anywhere else. And of course, earthquakes, volcano and floods are good for miles of newsprint and hours of air-time.

It has it all: good pictures, good sound, injured and dying people, survivor stories and property destruction

Just point the camera and talk. Sometimes, don't talk. The pictures tell the story. They're dream-come-true stories and can be a career boost for reporters. Dan Rather's hurricane coverage shot him from local to network news – now, we have the green Anderson Cooper vaulting from being drenched by hurricane winds to top anchor guy.

The media are simply documenting the cause and effect of the power of nature.

The ultimate conclusion is that we're all potential victims when nature lets loose. People love to see others suffer and think "thank God it's not me."

That reaction on the part of audiences is the same in coverage of real news events. Coverage of war engenders the same reaction – "better them than me." It's the same with insurrections, government corruption and starvation. As long as it's somewhere else, we feel OK.

In this case, that might be a mistake. What's happening in France could happen here, given the nature of terrorism. The media are doing a grave disservice by not presenting the story with facts and perspective.

As the French mobs moved through the streets, nothing was safe: Schools, hospitals, gymnasiums, homes, cars, trucks, busses, businesses, warehouses, churches, synagogues – even people.

A woman in a wheelchair was doused with fluid and set afire. A man trying to protect his car from being destroyed was beaten to death. Firemen and medical personnel were attacked and police were forbidden to fight back.

There may never be a "final" estimate of the damage caused – because this kind of insurrection may never really end – but preliminary estimates put it at over $235 million dollars. Reports are that more than 6,500 automobiles have been destroyed. For a country with severe employment and financial troubles, dealing with property damage alone will present enormous troubles for the government of President Jacques Chirac.

It didn't help that for more than 10 days after the violence erupted – supposedly a reaction to the accidental electrocution of two, Muslim teenagers who were running from police and hid in an electric transformer shed, not the smartest thing they ever did, but certainly the last – Chirac was neither seen nor heard.

His country was in flames, mobs in the street, people petrified by the violence, police ordered not to shoot – and the president was invisible.

When he finally did appear, it was more to lament the events and say that France must do more to solve the problems of these people.

What people?

Apparently, that means everyone in France who's poor, unemployed, uneducated, illiterate and of foreign extraction, legally or illegally in the country, with language problems.

Unfortunately for France, that's a lot of people, the result of the policy of encouraging immigration to provide low-paying jobs and assuming that those same people will magically become French and accepting of the culture and customs of the country.

Also, the socialist bent of the country had meant that those same people are unable to work themselves into the middle class. They come to expect the government to provide for them. The other half of the equation is that those same people too often don't want to assimilate into the culture.

The mother of an arrested 21-year-old rioter is an Algerian immigrant. She and her husband have been in France 25 years, are both illiterate and don't speak French. Her son failed high school, dropped out and is unemployed after having a job for 8 months. The mother says life there is difficult and "they don't give work to the young."

Aside from not assimilating, this woman has learned the socialist mantra: The government must give out jobs.

One aspect about the perpetrators, which the French dare not mention – they are multicultural and diverse, after all – is that the bulk, if not all of the rioters and arsonists, are Muslim.

Uh, oh. Can't say that.

There are an estimated 10 million Muslims in Europe – some 6 million are in France. These are generally people who maintain their culture, dress, religion, schools and language. Because of their separatism, they live in enclaves, whole sections of cities that are theirs – in some cases, areas that are so dangerous that police fear to enter. These are people who do not assimilate and do not become French even though they have French citizenship. Their anger has been fanned into flames by preaching of jihad in militant mosques.

There's no visible rhyme or reason (despite the electrocution) for the intensity of the violence. But the nature of the destruction and its rapid spread – at one time, simultaneously affecting more than 300 cities and towns – it's clear it hasn't been spontaneous.

Police have found organized bomb-making supplies. They know the Internet, e-mails and cell phones are being used to coordinate activities with plans to spread violence into Paris.

It's perverse to see how traditional media have twisted themselves into pretzels to avoid either reporting the story at all, or reporting it but burying it, or playing down the magnitude of the story, or focusing on the ramifications. They deliberately avoid using the word "Muslim."

Americans are being deliberately kept in the dark about the import of these riots and what they could mean – not just for this country, but for the rest of the Western world. If political correctness could kill, this might just be the perfect example.

[goldstategop]

The MSM keeps us in the dark aboit the Gallic Intifada. We're not allowed to learn the bulk of the rioters and arsonists in France's on-going insurrection are - gasp!> MUSLIM! We aren't allowed to say it. And there's the feckless President Chirac who has the whine down to perfection even as France goes up in flames around him. Political correctness kills and as Barbara Simpson says, the cameras don't tell us the real story. Far from it.

(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.")

[A CA Guy]

I guess they won't host the Olympics any time soon.

[MEG33]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GPGMQLJBJTBXBQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2005/11/14/wfran14.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/14/ixportal.html
France calls in the CRS to garrison suburbs
By Henry Samuel
(Filed: 14/11/2005)

France's feared riot police, the CRS, is to be garrisoned in riot-hit suburbs.

[kublia khan]

Also missing is the story of the coordination and organization by a influential terrorist leadership who are behind the scenes orchestrating the violence.

[MEG33]

http://tv.reuters.com/ifr_main.jsp?st=1100019068727&rf=bm&mp=WMP&wmp=1&rm=1&cpf=true&fr=110704_045639_17d5d2ax10014b24db2xw68ba&rdm=661062.2540557908
2 schools set ablaze..

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/13/D8DS0BI82.html
2 Schools Ablaze As French Unrest Persists
Nov 13 10:33 PM US/Eastern
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By ANGELA DOLAND
Associated Press Writer


PARIS


France's national police chief said Sunday that the country's worst rioting since the 1960s seemed to be nearing an end, but violence persisted into the night, with at least two schools set on fire and dozens of cars torched.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso proposed that the European Union give $58 million to France for helping riot-hit towns recover. He said the EU could make up to $1.2 billion available in longer-term support.



In scattered attacks overnight into Monday, vandals rammed a car into a primary school in the southern city of Toulouse before setting the building on fire and burned cars in northeastern Strasbourg. In northern France, arsonists set fire to a sports center in the suburb of Faches-Thumesnil and a school in the town of Halluin.

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More copycat attacks were registered in neighboring countries Sunday, with 29 vehicles torched in Belgium, four cars burned in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, and two cars burned in the Swiss town of Martigny.

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"Youths" and "vandals" still at it.

[ARCADIA]

France's feared riot police, the CRS, is to be garrisoned in riot-hit suburbs.

It sounds like the regular police is close to striking.

[MEG33]

It would seem so
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/weekinreview/13memri.excerpts.html?ex=1289538000&en=d97c47327a22e7df&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
And there is the Muslim reaction
Muslims on Riots in France

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By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: November 13, 2005
Many of those taking part in the riots in France are young Muslims. Their actions, and the condition of Muslim communities in France generally, were the subject of much discussion in the Arab and Muslim worlds, where opinion seemed mostly, but not entirely, sympathetic to the rioters.
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[MEG33]

Good read
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521615/posts
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Youth gangs, overwhelmingly French-born and Muslim, have engaged in a nation-wide rampage that by November 8 had burned 5,000 vehicles, a few schools, kindergartens, police stations, shopping malls, and post offices. Police officers have been wounded and an older man beaten to death. Some 800 individuals have been arrested and a curfew locally imposed to stem this anomic wave of gang violence that is spreading all over France -- and beyond. But the riots increasingly and alarmingly suggest that Islamist radicals see criminality as an opportunity for recruitment, while the criminals see Islam as a legitimizer.

There are gangs, and there are Gangs...

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[adamsjas]

What's happening in France could happen here, given the nature of terrorism.

As the French mobs moved through the streets, nothing was safe: Schools, hospitals, gymnasiums, homes, cars, trucks, busses, businesses, warehouses, churches, synagogues – even people.

I think Ms Simpson forgets we still have the second ammendment in this country.

[backhoe]

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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Then, correlate with some of our own problems:

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

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[kanawa]

Pogrom's coming.

[tkathy]

"Their anger has been fanned into flames by preaching of jihad in militant mosques. "

We have the same demonic supremacist screechings in our mosques. America must wake up.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Are they looting?

[MEG33]

I have not found that in the articles I've read..I haven't found "muslim" mentioned in most of the articles I've read either..so who knows?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

FNC has been covering the story, but I would like to see DAILY interviews with Parisians about the situation.

[bronxboy]

Those who favor massive immigration and globalist policies should look at Fance. if you allow poor immigrants in to do low wage jobs...it could happen here.

[OldFriend]

If the French say the rioting is over, our MSM will declare the rioting over.

If they're still rioting that will be mostly ignored and Chirac will be praised for his enlightened handling of the crisis.

[LikeLight]

There have definitely been some press reports of looting in France - but since there is NEVER ANY LIVE COVERAGE of the rioting, and even pictures, let alone video, are very difficult to find, it's hard to know how much. We know that numerous retail shops and warehouses, including at least 2 "super-stores" have been torched.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

The French heavily covered Hurricane Katrina, with Americans in New Orleans begging for food and water. We should be doing the exact same thing to them.

[wouldntbprudent]

But the riots increasingly and alarmingly suggest that Islamist radicals see criminality as an opportunity for recruitment, while the criminals see Islam as a legitimizer.

Yup. As I've said before, clearly terrorist operatives around the world, but particularly in the mideast, must be viewing these developments as fertile ground in which to finally grow the seeds of organized terror such that they can open a western front in the war.