France reacts to 'shockwave of riots'(Paris/France burns Live Thread Night #12)

Times of London ^ | 11/07/05 | Simon Freeman, Charles Bremner

[mewzilla]

Well, Villepaininthearse is working on a new bribery, er...social welfare package for the the poor and downtrodden. That takes a couple of weeks to ram through, you know. France can't be bribed in a day.

[blanknoone]

You have to be careful of believing what you read in the papers...(although in fairness, this is inside a direct quote, but the headline isn't).

"In the past, when we have cracked down on these criminals in their homes, we found drugs, grenades and heavy weapons such as guns. While they haven't started using these arms yet, there's also no reason to think they wouldn't."

'Guns' (unless he is talking in terms of actual artillery, which I really, really doubt) means rifles, pitols and shotguns. None of these are 'heavy weapons' Words have meanings, and the press regularly butchers the meanings around firearms.

[Semper Paratus]

Why isn't Jimmy Carter rushing over there to mediate?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"Makes total sense if you think about it." [Not to shoot.]

It's like some spoiled brat you never disciplined when he was young. He gets more brazen and dangerous every year. At some point, you've GOT to bite the bullet and crack down. Make'em or Break'em. I'd tell the French, IT'S YOUR COUNTRY, DAMMIT!

[Stentor]

Joblessness is the real cancer eating at France, and socialism does not cause it.

This one stuck out.

[blanknoone]

"BB guns?"

It was a shotgun, from long distance.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"Why isn't Jimmy Carter rushing over there to mediate?"

Maybe Chirac threatened to boycott peanut butter if he did.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"It was a shotgun, from long distance."

Ah thank you. I was beginning to wonder. Buckshot, perhaps.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I have the solution to these riots. Import the Brit soccer hooligans, and German neonazi skin heads to come confront the mooligans. Arm the Brits and Germans with pipes, chains, broken bottles, etc; and fill em up with 10 or 15 pints before you set em loose.

It would be quite something.

[dasboot]

Cops call that "pest control".

[Keme]

I believe its Che with Mickey Mouse ears. The blogger seems like a good guy if I'm not mistaken.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"Joblessness is the real cancer eating at France, and socialism does not cause it." [The quote in question.]

That's what socialists honestly believe. A truly communist country can create jobs for everyone. The only problem is, the lack of passion about their work, and the trouble they have feeding themselves.

[dasboot]

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[nicmarlo]

In Grigny....a gang of around 200 youths are reported to have lured police into a housing estate before opening fire with hunting rifles....youths in St Etienne forced passengers off a bus before burning it.....In Strasbourg, youths stole a car and rammed it into a housing project, setting the vehicle and the building on fire......a population that has grown outraged over the rioting by youths, mainly of Arab and African origin.

The unrest started in the poor Paris suburb of lichy-sous-Bois, after the deaths of two teenagers of Mauritanian and Tunisian origin. The youths were accidentally electrocuted....

youth

n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy)

rioter

n : troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority

Gee.....do you think they want us to think the rioters are youths?

[ncountylee]

Hummmm....why would these "poor, disaffected youths" be burning down CHRISTIAN churches? Inquiring minds want to know...but the press doesn't.

And reacting so mindlessly to the tear gas in the Mosque?

[abb]

Backhoe has coined a new moniker to replace MSM - ToM - Tired old Media.

It fits...

[tomahawk]

If France is unwilling to fight this cancer of Islam, it will die.

[George W. Bush]

Why isn't Jimmy Carter rushing over there to mediate?

I'm willing to send him in. Into one of these oppressed Paristinian ghettos, alone, on foot, at night.

Only Jimmuh can solve this.

[freedumb2003]

Whwn will the burn down EuroDisney?

That would be the beginning of the end. You can mess with a lot of things in this world, but never mess with Disney.

[George W. Bush]

Well, Villepaininthearse is working on a new bribery, er...social welfare package for the the poor and downtrodden.

With Dominique de Villepanties on the job, soon all will be well.