LIVE THREAD: French Riots

April 4, 2006 | FR

[Peach]

Post your observations here.

Richard Miniter was on FNC and said that even if an employee is caught on videotape stealing from their employers, they cannot be fired.

[bill1952]

Good grief. Is that a parody?!

Sacre blu, no. That would be straightforward Communist Ideology, and spoken with distain to those whose intellect is so clearly inferior to these fine students of Lenin.

[maggief]

or this one.

An unidentified man lies on the ground after being attacked by youths following clashes after a demonstration against the French government's new labor laws in Paris Tuesday April 4, 2006. Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through cities around France on Tuesday, hoping to make their biggest show of strength yet to demand the repeal of a job law that has divided the country .(AP Photo/Francois Mori)

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Hoodie Alert! LOL

[lawdude]

"Ah!...I love riots in the springtime.."

Come to Phoenix on Saturday. You might get to see one.

[LK44-40]

Kind of like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.....

The comparison is tempting but in France it is a whole nother thing.

Here, your daddy may get you into an Ivy League college and then your path may be greased into some excellent, undeserved opportunities. But, ultimately, when you are forty or fifty years old, I don't think even a Harvard degree means much if you have accomplished nothing.

In France, you can be shuttled in and out of top government jobs for your entire life based on absolutely nothing but that fancy degree. It is, as I said, more like being admitted to the nobility.

(I agree that the snot-nosed prestige attached to some of our elite schools is undeserved and the institutions and graduates should be taken down a few pegs. Even our president, I will not concede to be an especially educated fellow, Yale and Harvard notwithstanding.)

[maggief]

Call the fashion police!

[bill1952]

>OMG! There is a God in heaven after all!!!!

My thoughts exactly, sir. my thoughts exactly...

[eraser2005]

You're right - you would probably have all of France in the streets. But you simply cannot create a second class of citizens and employees that gets treated differently for doing the same work and expect the societal structure to survive. Either France has to do nothing and live with their languishing economy, or they have to remove protections for all and watch the longer-term growth. If they continue to try to create a second class, they're just speeding up another revolution.

[onyx]

LOL! Send in the clowns!

[RetiredArmy]

No fashion police needed. He is simply wearing the face mask and hood like his fellow muslin brothers when they are doing their thing in the middle east.

[debg]

Hey, that's one of those new Iranian missles!

[divine_moment_of_facts]

LOL.. I thought the French were supposed to be the fashion Innovators.. not the fashion Laggards!

[maggief]

Will a mime do?

[Revel]

"France is just reaping the seeds of socialism it sowed long ago."

The USA is not far behind.

I was listening to a live reporter on fox news a couple of hours ago. He said that much of the Hard Core trouble makers in these crowds are made up of Muslim's. You don't hear the mainstream media say that too often.

In the USA we also have the Illegals who have been so kindly treated to socialism in this country. And we have seen in the last couple of weeks just what that is leading up to.

[onyx]

LOL -- she's a little too calm to be in attendance!

[MinuteGal]

I love Paris in the springtime
I love Chirac's fast free fall
I love a riot as it sizzles
I love Villepin as he fizzles
I love gendarmes every moment
Every moment in the Square
I love gendarmes
Why oh why do I love gendarmes
Because they swoop with flair

Ooo, la la

Leni

[Rte66]

And what say you, Mademoiselle Kabuki? Oh, you don't speak? Hope you can get out of that invisible box!

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Fortunately, there has been a backlash against the liberal socialist agenda... Amnesty without securing the borders first will not fly.

[MaggieCarta]

I feel a song coming on:
Apologies to the Doors, Jose F. and, of course, DFU

C'mon Boss, You just can't fire (Tune: Light My Fire)

You know that this is so unfair,
To think, that I could just be fired.
Tho’ this, I will say to you:
I’m a sorry labor supplier

Come on boss, you just can’t fire
Anyone that you hire
So, I’m not a ball of fire
At work, no real live wire
In fact, I’m a big flat tire
But, it's my job, ‘til I retire!

[Rte66]

Bebes in the hoods?