France Riot Watch: Rioting Spreads From Paris Across France
French riot police officers patrol in the middle of the highway of Saint Denis, north of Paris, early Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005 on the ninth day of unrest. Vehicles and buildings were torched by youths in largely immigrant areas who began rampaging after two of their peers were electrocuted last week at a power substation while hiding from police they feared were chasing them.
The ASSociated Press has Rioting Spreads From Paris Across France
Marauding youths torched nearly 900 vehicles, stoned paramedics and burned a nursery school in a ninth night of violence that spread from Paris suburbs to towns around France, police said Saturday. Authorities arrested more than 250 people overnight — a sweep unprecedented since the unrest began.
For the first time, authorities used a helicopter to chase down youths armed with gasoline bombs who raced from arson attack to arson attack, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said.
The violence, which was concentrated in neighborhoods with large African and Muslim populations but has since spread, has forced France to address the simmering anger of its suburbs, where immigrants and their French-born children live on the margins of society.
Shameful violence.
Hugh Hewitt has 1968/2005
Roger L. Simon has November 04, 2005: Paris Is Burning and now the Provinces too
ShrinkWrapped has The French “Intifada”
The Belmont Club has Where to?
4 Comments
JohnnyB
This is the start of a revolution, mark my words. This event has been predicted for years, but I did not think that it would happen for another 5 years or so. The French are notorious cowards and will attempt to appease these revolutionary terrorists. Of Course you can never give socialist revolutionaries enough, and France will become an Islamic state in a few years.
Part of me thinks, “Good! Screw France for getting us Americans into Vietnam. Screw them for not supporting us in Afganistan or Iraq after we saved their asses from the NAZIs in WWII and finally put an end to their killfest of a stalemate in WWI. Screw them for their socialist politics, resulting in their 10% unemployment rate which is the #1 reason all of this is happening in the first place. Screw them for not allowing the CAC 40 to be traded on the NYSE. I want to invest in their Nuclear Power Plant company, but I can’t, screw them.”
Part of me thinks, “Oh no, another war in Europe. Oh no, an anti-semetic impoverished people crying for egalitarian reform.” Do you know what egalitarian reform is? More Socialism. Last time we had anti-semitic socialists raising hell in Europe we called them NAZIs, and MILLIONS of people died. TRILLIONS of dollars worth of human endevour was destroyed. The Cold War cost thousands if not millions of lives in Korea, Cuba, Cambodia, Afganistan and Vietnam. Not to mention the millions of lives that communism and fascist socialism took. I got a cold hard heart too, lets think about how much wealth it cost the Global community in manpower and resources that otherwise could have been used for mutually beneficial trade.
Oh yeah, guess what? After Reagan took that damned wall down, guess what came walking across? You guessed it, NAZIs or Neo-NAZIs like they like to call themselves today. Hey, Hitler liked the Islamo-fascists why should all the new 2nd&3rd Generation Nazi-youth not like the Islamo-Fascists as well? They ain’t quite white, but hell at least they want to kill kikes as bad as we do.
There is one cause of all this crap in France, SOCIALISM!!! Ever since this evil idea took hold all nations who eventually adopted it have come to suffer as a result. There is one solution, Capitalism, Free Markets, Free Trade, and Globalization. One solution, because you have to swollow the entire pill. If we as a generation can do one thing in our time on this planet, please let it be to eliminate the Tyranny of all governments and all economic and social dealings. Let Governments do what they do best, and build a road and print money, but in everything else, fuck off!!
Marvey
Probably starting in the De Gaul era, the french “republican,egalitarian,integration” were really disguised racist ideals anyways. Where it “failed” was when immigrants (africans and arabs in this particular case) were actually able to become just as culturally french as the white catholics.
Case in point would be this very uprising – these types of riots as distinctly french, i.e. burning and overturning cars, country-wide solidarity, overall flavor of “riff-raff”-ness
What it really comes down to is that all men really are NOT created equal. John Adams believed that all men are equal before the eyes of god, but not before the eyes of men – a very unsocialist idea.
Not Insane
*France will become an Islamic state in a few years.*
Ok, I will bet you say…how about 1,000,000 dollars…wait know you probably dont have close to that much…how bout 10,000 US
dollars that france does not become an islamic state.
*Part of me thinks,*
None of you thinks.
*Oh no, an anti-semetic impoverished people crying for egalitarian reform.*
I havent heard one report of any jews being targeted. So please, show me one.
*you know what egalitarian reform is? More Socialism. Last time we had anti-semitic socialists raising hell in Europe we called them NAZIs, and MILLIONS of people died.*
Actually that is called ‘Fascism’. The difference is that instead of workers councils controlling the creation and distribution of
their labor power from its beginings (socialism) all labor power and distribution is controlled by either a small group of elite
or one individual. So what was in Nazi Germany was actually called fascism. and what was in the Soviet Union was basically
fascism. Socialism has not yet been put into practice. France is a properly functioning capitalist state much like the US,
which is exactly why there is rioting in France. The US has experienced similar rioting and will experience more as the
ghettos continue to expand.
*The Cold War cost thousands if not millions of lives in Korea, Cuba, Cambodia, Afganistan and Vietnam*.
Looks like you need to refer to something known as ‘History’. The war in Korea was fought because after WW2 the Koreans had succeeded in maintaining councilist government infasturcture due to their very organized resistance to th 35 year Japanese invasion. South Korea however was promplty invaded by the US and all the anti Japanese resistance destroyed. We then put Japanese collaborators into power and THAT led to a horrible civil war with the North. Im getting all this information from official US air force history. It is available to the public. You can read about war crimes such as blowing up dikes and drowning thousands of people…It is available to anyone, go take a look…you might learn something.
Cuba: we claimed that Cuba was a threat becuase of the Soviet Union. Noone in their right mind would consider cuba a threat if the Soviet Union was not backing them…that was the ONLY reason given for why cuba was a threat. The US sanctioned Cuba and began air strikes and other terrorist bombings of civilian infastructure. (once again, refer to US air force history to learn all about this). After the fall of the USSR Cuba should have ceased to be a threat. (since they had never claimed to actually want any sort of conflict with the US). But Cuba was such a good example to the other impoverished capitalist countries of the south that the US had to make sure it was ruined. So the US policy changed overnight from Soviet agression in Cuba to….we love democracy and cant have Cuba being Communist. To this day Cuba has proved remarkabe prosperity in the face of incredibly odds. The defacto regimes of El Salvadore that we supported and other capitalist victims of the WTO and IMF have failed miserably compared to Cuba…a country up against the strongest country on the planet. Cuba is poor and suffering….but if the embargo were lifted it would prove to be a miracle state, prompting a revolution in all of central and latin america.
ok…im gettin sick of giving you a history lesson so im gonna skip ahead quick to Vietnam. I wont give you the whole story…just a few facts. We killed 4 million vietnamese. (that number is according to the CIA, other estimates are much higher). The largest supplier of aid to Vietnam today is US FORCES THAT FOUGHT IN VIETNAM. and lastly…the USSR feard Vietnam as much as we did….the organization and self sufficiency of Vietnam was (like Cuba) a bad example for nations that wanted to resist imperialism and develope individually.
***here is one solution, Capitalism, Free Markets, Free Trade, and Globalization. One solution, because you have to swollow the entire pill. If we as a generation can do one thing in our time on this planet, please let it be to eliminate the Tyranny of all governments and all economic and social dealings.***
Government is the shadow cast by big business. If government (which i dont like very much as it is right now) were to disapear then there would be no body to regulate workers rights, environmental law, private property. IBM could easily fund an army to go and kill whoever tried to market a competative product. PROFIT DRIVEN business would not bother paying attention to deforestation if there was a money to be made in logging faster then the other company. PROFIT DRIVEN business would not waste time and money refining or properly storing dangerous chemicals…they would dump them whereever they wanted. The examples go on and on. Im not justifying government…but this is what your world would look like without it. If you want freedom then each person needs to take back control over thier world…simply getting rid of the government would obviously not accomplish any of this.
Will
I was going to say that Johnny B is an idiot. But I think Not Insane cleared that up for us.