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Cheese-eating surrendermonkeys

Posted by Temporal at 2005/11/06 14:39:55 CST
Edited at 2005/11/06 14:47:21 CST

So apparently there are these massive riots in France. I guess the whole situation was sparked when some poor immigrant boys, while running from the police, decided that a power station would be a good place to hide... and managed to electrocute themselves.

Retards.

Anyway, so a large number of African and Middle Eastern immigrants, not having anything better to do, decided to riot over this. They're destroying cars, burning schools, etc.

Oh... kay. I guess this sort of thing is not unusual when you have a large group of very poor people. It's really not so much the incident which has made them angry, but just their general position in life and the conditions they've been stuck with for so long.

But the most ridiculous part about all of this is the French response. Here in the United States, "Massive rioting and lawlessness" has one possible answer: National Guard. Declare martial law, bring in the fucking army, and destroy the fucking rioters.

I guess in France the solution is more along the lines of "Hold some meetings, talk about it with concern, and ask the rioters to stop.".

The French army must have already surrendered.

2005/11/06 16:02:46 CST by burn

Well thats old news... its been going on for ten straight days... last night the torched 600+ cars!

But look. Real live pirates! (may require activex -- now works in firefox)

Added at 2005/11/06 16:03:53 CST

Well crap... should have actually read the articles from today... 1300 cars.

2005/11/06 16:23:14 CST by Temporal

Yes, 10 days, and still no military. I'm pretty sure we had soldiers on the ground in New Orleans after 10 days.

As for the pirates... do you remember the story about the pirates that attacked a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, only to discover the hard way that this particular cargo ship was part of the United States Navy? In this case, "the hard way" meaning "it started shooting at them with a 50 calibur machine gun".

2005/11/06 20:14:30 CST by mattsteg

That pirate graphic rocks.

2005/11/08 00:06:51 CST by Temporal

New article

Quote from New York Times:

"The government response is one of firmness," Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said on television late Monday, calling the violence "unacceptable and inexcusable." He said the government would call up 1,500 police reserves to reinforce the 8,000 police officers already waging nightly battles in the streets. He said some towns would impose curfews to keep marauding youths off the streets, but ruled out for now sending the army into the suburbs with populations largely of West African and North African origin where the unrest has grown.

Weak.

2005/11/08 08:52:52 CST by burn
Edited at 2005/11/08 08:53:52 CST

Quote from Temporal:

Yes, 10 days, and still no military. I'm pretty sure we had soldiers on the ground in New Orleans after 10 days.

Keep in mind that if France is anything like America - I am assuming because they modeled their constitution after ours - then the military can not enforce the civilian population... unless martial law is enacted.

As in New Orleans when federal armed forces are committed to a civil disturbances, their proper role is to support, not supplant, civil authority.