More Likely To Be Served A Molotov Cocktail Than Champagne In France Today

The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris at City Journal.org ^ | November 6, 2006 | Theodore Dalrymple (article author)

[WmShirerAdmirer]

The French: "Don't execute Saddam si vous plait!"

[edpc]

Molotov cocktail,the local drink
And all she wants to do is dance
They mix them up right in the kitchen sink
And all she wants to do is dance
Crazy people walking around with blood in their eyes
And all she wants to do is dance,dance,dance
Wild-eyed pistol wavers who ain't afraid to die
And all she wants to do is
All she wants to do is dance,dance
And make romance

Apparently, Don Henley fans abound in France.

[Spktyr]

Stick a fork in it; France is done.

[Cicero]

Well, we already knew it was bad, but this is the most detailed description yet of the horrors the French have bred in their cites.

Strangely, I think of the innocent stories I read as a boy and then read to my children: Babar.

The French imagined that their civilization was so superior, that even elephants and monkeys would imitate it. They would immediately head for the nearest store and buy themselves civilized clothing, then go home and build a civilization just like France.

They were mistaken.

[dubie]

Did someone say France? Here is one good thing that came from France...

[siunevada]

From: CITY JOURNAL Autumn 2002

The date might be the most eye opening thing about this article. He was a long way ahead of the pack on this one.

[oyez]

BFL

All forgoten now.

[in hoc signo vinces]

We need to liberate that...right now! :-)

[agere_contra]

Theodore Dalyrmple is about 80 or something like that - and it shows (in a good way). His prose style is incomparable.

[Lurker]

But this was 'uncivilized'.

L

[Bon mots]

[WmShirerAdmirer]

Extremely frightening.

My dream was to go to Paris and walk the same streets as Hemingway, dine in the small cafes, enjoy the architecture, statues, gardens, and all the wonderful sites.

Is it all lost to me now?

[Leisler]

The old slums were thought to produce all sorts of treats, human and otherwise. But now these socialist concrete slums produce new, politicized threats. Furthermore, the new designed slums have politial and economic patrons in the concrete supplier, glass repair companies, those companies that get contracts for remodeling, even the police and firemen are given work. The worse it gets, the more money to be gotten.

This is the future of socialist economies, creating, increasing and profiting from misery. No longer will money be made from just mysterious forces of the old days. Now the modern socialistic state can create slums, at profit, and the slums breed human problems which created more jobs and contracts. Think of these multi storied buildings as huge chicken coops. Instead of chickens people. Instead of eggs, degenerated humans guaranteed to produce decades of problems and contracts.

[Gen-X-Dad]

France is in the death spiral of a hollowed-out, stagnant, socialist / communist society. The proletariat (lower class) are ready for their revolution. The only question is how long it will take Eurabia to rise out of the ashes of the coming anarchy. The French desire to appease and placate will eventually allow them to be enslaved which seems to be their historical destiny. It is hard to believe that Napolean ever won any battles, given the nature of the French people.

[Mr. Jazzy]

The muslims have done with their religion and babies what Hitler did with tanks and infantry, namely take over and destroy a country.

[Bon mots]

Extremely frightening.

My dream was to go to Paris and walk the same streets as Hemingway, dine in the small cafes, enjoy the architecture, statues, gardens, and all the wonderful sites.

Is it all lost to me now?

Try Prague or Budapest.

[Caipirabob]

Is it all lost to me now?

Your comment hits home for me, too.

Since joining FR, my sole intent is the preservation of Constitutional freedoms and things I knew and loved growing up so that my children can enjoy them. Suffice to say there's already a bit of a void if we lose "Europe".

[Mrs Ivan]

uncompromising hatred and aggression

Aren't those the basic tenets of the religion of peace?

[monocle]

BTTT

[Minette]

Good heavens, no. Hop on a plane and I'll meet you there; I'm just a short train ride away. My husband is there today on business and, as I type this, is probably considering which little bistro he'll dine in for lunch. I saw on the news last night that Galeries Lafayette has just put up their beautiful holiday lights and I told my husband, "I have to go see that!" (I didn't mention the shopping I plan to do inside.)