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| Not All the News from France is Bad |
| 2003-10-30 |
| Via MerdeinFrance: EFL - The article talks about the crime wave in France and links it to the public housing projects (Cites) and their muslim inhabitants: "Molotov cocktails also greeted the president of the republic, Jacques Chirac, and his interior minister when they recently campaigned at two cites, Les Tarterets and Les Musiciens. The two dignitaries had to beat a swift and ignominious retreat, like foreign overlords visiting a barely held and hostile suzerainty: they came, they saw, they scuttled off." Vidi, veni, vamoose |
| Posted by:mercutio |
| #10 "...they aren't afraid of the Algerians and Tunisians living in ghettoes..." In your dreams, NMM. Ever been to Paris yourself? Ever been outside the US yourself? The Parisian North Africans are a serious nuisance all over Paris and have seen it with my own eyes. On a "romantic" weekend there six years ago, my girlfirend received verbal abuse from said young men in the touristic heart of Paris (wasn't with her at the time it happened - results if I had been would have been interesting) and, talking to the friend whose apartment we stayed in, gave us a very different picture from the one you're trying to paint. She's been the victim of an attempted sexual assault and had many other incidents to relate. The French ghettos are not a successful form of racial apartheid, as you perversely want to believe. Try to get hold of the film La Haine - it'll help give you some idea. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-10-31 4:04:34 AM |
| #9 Don't know where ya live Shipman, sorry if you didn't catch the reference |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-10-30 10:36:22 PM |
| #8 they aren't afraid of the Algerians and Tunisians living in ghettoes anymore than someone in Darien is worried about the "Hip-Hop menace in the Bronx" Hip hop menace? Sounds like code words. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-10-30 9:55:55 PM |
| #7 mojo--again--you almost caused me to inhale my Diet Coke LOL! From the French people I know--(anecdotal evidence I know) they aren't afraid of the Algerians and Tunisians living in ghettoes anymore than someone in Darien is worried about the "Hip-Hop menace in the Bronx" it's just a fact of urban/suburban life |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-10-30 9:50:28 PM |
| #6 After reading the whole article(and assuming it is not vastly exaggerated)much of French policy before Iraq War now makes sense.The Iraq War had virtually no Arab support-unlike Gulf War of '91. France opposed any military action against Iraq out of fear of violent Islamic riots in the heart of her cities.The foreign policy of building an anti-US coalition was based on fear as much if not more than based on pride and ambition. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2003-10-30 7:49:08 PM |
| #5 Sounds like a job for Sherrif Joe Arpaio. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-10-30 7:46:01 PM |
| #4 Send in the 4th Infantry. They'll clean those cesspools out in no time. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-30 4:38:17 PM |
| #3 From the linked article It is the private complaint of everyone, however, that the police have become impotent to suppress and detect crime. Horror stories abound. A Parisian acquaintance told me how one recent evening he had seen two criminals attack a car in which a woman was waiting for her husband. They smashed her side window and tried to grab her purse, but she resisted. My acquaintance went to her aid and managed to pin down one of the assailants, the other running off. Fortunately, some police passed by, but to my acquaintance’s dismay let the assailant go, giving him only a warning. My acquaintance said to the police that he would make a complaint. The senior among them advised him against wasting his time. At that time of night, there would be no one to complain to in the local commissariat. He would have to go the following day and would have to wait on line for three hours. He would have to return several times, with a long wait each time. And in the end, nothing would be done. Remember: France is the (U.S.A.s) Democrat's wet dream..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-10-30 2:52:56 PM |
| #2 Yeah, well, there's no telling what gets that guy off....... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2003-10-30 2:43:19 PM |
| #1 Vidi, veni, vamoose I saw, I came, I scrammed? |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-10-30 2:38:34 PM |