Good Luck With That

Now see? This is why France has the reputation it has.

PARIS (AFX) - Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin unveiled a raft of social and economic measures designed to improve conditions in France's tough, low-income neighbourhoods that have spawned unrest raging across the country.

The initiatives -- outlined before parliament the same day the government approved powers to declare a state of emergency in specified regions of the country -- aim to reduce chronically high unemployment in those suburbs, provide better education and address entrenched racism.

'Our collective responsibility is to make difficult areas the same sort of territory as others in the republic,' Villepin said.

But he added that 'the reestablishment of public order is a prerequisite' to the measures being implemented -- something he admitted would 'take some time.'

No. That’s not the way the sequence of events is supposed to go. The government isn’t supposed to say “please stop and we’ll give you stuff.” The government is supposed to go in and make the rioters stop. And the only semblance of negotiation that goverment spokesmen ought to engage in should consist of a single ultimatum: something like “stop and we won’t kill you.” It’s called incentive. But the rioters of Europe know that they can clown until they get tired because, in spite of their belated curfews and states of emergency declared after nearly two weeks of hell, the French will not act resolutely to end the Intifada in their country. It's called knowledge of one’s adversary.

Here’s a reverse example. During the LA riots of 1992 I was stationed in Japan, but my great-aunt was here at the time (her house is within walking distance of where the infamous Reginald Denny incident occured). She said that as soon as the National Guard rolled up, all rioters magically ceased, desisted and dispersed. (One of Shay’s commenters concurs.) Those rioters knew that the Guard had the means and—most importantly—the will to bring order to the LA streets; LA’s thugs knew their opponents well also.

But the key is the will, the resolve, the determination. And the resolve of the French government is manifestly suspect. We know it and, unfortunately for France and many of her neighbors, France’s “guests” know their prey well.

(Thanks to LGF)

Comments

[teal marie]

Sacre Merde!
Reward bad behavior and you'll get lots more of it. Cowardly appeasers.

OT, the death toll from the Asian earthquake is up to 87,000. Wow.

[Old Guy]

Showing the world how silly and demented the French are is great, but the Islamist radicals are one step closer to taking over an entire nation with violence, threats of violence and actual voting. When this happens, the Islamofacists will be "legitimized" in the eyes of other self-destructive liberal nations such as our own. They will defacto be so because they will have a military and nuclear weapons to use as they will. (and they will when it suits them.)

[skinner]

Hey OLD GUY ... IM' an old fart too Do you have a hobby?
I fish , Hunt occasionally ,
quail , deer chuckar, hungarian
and blue partridges, Elk, coyotes , geese , mallards, Fat
girls , skinny girls, and mostly
Old girls And I hunt for my reading glasses alot too. The point is Im pretending to be a busy guy What do you do ? I think you paint Cause your painting a pretty Dim picture of The state of affairs. You cant find youre glasses either ..HUH?
Old farts like us have guns not
much to loose and wer'e cranky cause we're irregular or hung-over
Or pissed .cause "where th F..K are the reading glasses" But Iv'e got a scatter gun and a semi ak and lots of ammo so these littl whippersnappers cant do SQUAT !!!! Are you in or NOT
Paint some flowers or something
Even dead terrorists deserve flowers on they're graves after you bury them I suggest plastic
We can still have fun thanks
To Remington { another great paintor]

[teal marie]

SKINNER HAS A GUN!!!
Jeezel Caveezel. That IS scarey.

If you had a proof-reader, you'd be devastating, Old Fart.

Kidding. I relish your inspired berserker rants. You intend to provide a little comic relief. Right? Right? (I hope!)

[Old Guy]

Yeah Skinner,
I can hunt, fish and raise a garden (and a country boy can survive!). However, I'd much rather enjoy a mordern society with my MP3 playin' pick-up,
internet in the evening, and fishin' on the weekends with my son instead of the 7th century lifestyle that osama wants us all to enjoy...

[skinner]

Old guy "whats to disagree about" This isnt fun. I have tons of dill pickles in jars I
made before the rich people moved in and started to tame the Mule deer my tomatoes were Mah valous but now they come up on my front porch and eat the patio and cherry tomatoes I have always put in planters I will build that 8 ft. fence but have limited funds .
The Muslim Terrorists beleive in banging themselves in the head with the Koran because none of
can read they"e own names they memmorize the Koran and pretend to read { How pathetic is this}
Reminds me of the Monty python Holy Grail movie where the crusaders [?] were speaking latin
words and smaking themselves silly with the king James version
Funny how Reality imatates comedy ? These camel jockey
carpet pilots dont have a chance against us scary gun owning americans { Teal Marie} We are multi talented and can shoot a squirrels ear off from 60 yrds ,in a wind storm , Ive done it { but they kicked me out of Disneyland} That irrellevant ,
because the real problem you have old guy is when you have a problem with youre computer and have to talk to Lamp rubbers in Bangledesch Thes people are nice and "very very" polite But lets face it they're there and wer'e here

[skinner]

youre right Teal Marie I need to proof-read and correct my miss-spelling and put in my left out words , Plus the missing , . capitol letters etc. But Im an old lazy stubborn fart Every time I re- read what Ive written
I tell myself you Idiot you arent getting better youre getting worse Proof read !! guess what Im
not proof-reading this I lied I just proof-read this 12 mistakes
IM NOT WORTHY

[teal marie]

You are too worthy! I busted out laughing at the Disney reference. I just like to tease you. Fart about being fair play and all that.

Insomnia? Me, too. Think I need a Nyquil shooter.

Wait! Don't shoot! You don't have your reading glasses on! :-P

[skinner]

Thanks Teal marie ,from now own, I
vow to use complete sentences , with all the words , present, and not make them too long , as to make people bored and lose interest. Notice I used a PERIOD, but I started this sentence with a clause, I promise not to do that anymore , Plus the , too long sentences thing, and too many clauses. Those days are over, For crying out loud, plus Ill proofread , cause,
Im the first guy to spot bad English even if its my own. Im also not gonna start sentences with verbs or prepositions
, as soon as someone explains this ,concept to me.
Im also gonna try to rhyme occasionally because Im Irish and people, really, really like it .