Again, Riots in France
‘Youths’ were, yet again, riotting in France yesterday.
Gare du Nord, March 27th: A 33-year old [no further adjectives available] male passenger traveling without a ticket on an RER commuter train jumped the turnstile and was stopped by transport agents. He slapped them, triggering seven hours of punk jihad mayhem, cutely described in the media as “clashes with youths.�
The Socialist party, its head wrapped in a virtual banlieue keffieh, stood on the barricades with the youths and blamed Nicolas Sarkozy for provoking tension between the police and the populace. The UMP presidential candidate, who resigned on Monday from his post as Interior Minister, observed that France is the only country in which it is considered abnormal to reprehend a passenger who rides for free.
Nice.
8 Responses to “Again, Riots in France”
I don’t really know what things are like in France, but I suspect that, on this subject, are not very different from Spain. The politicians and the media wring their hands about the “rights” of these “youths” (read: thugs) and how it’s all the fault of (insert anything here except the youths themselves), but this attitude is not shared with a vast majority of the populace. Most people, even most young people, feel no sympathy towards rioting young men. We are sick of the PC culture that makes everyone a victim, so that actual victims aren’t even allowed to be angry at perpetrators. We’re supposed to feel sorry for them, since they are just the victims of society. In other words; it’s our own fault. To hell with it, they are criminals who indulge their lower instincts because they know they can get away with it. If they are foreigners, expel them, and if they are Frenchmen, jail them.
The ‘youth’ that started all this was 33 years old. Kind of stretching the definition of that word, but if they didn’t, they might have had to say ‘Muslim’. Political correctness trikes again.
I think a better characterization would be still rioting rather than rioting again.
As best as I’ve been able to determine most of the “youths” involved have been immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa and, yes, many are Muslims. Why is their being Muslim more relevant than their being North Africans or sub-Saharan
Africans? (or the descendants thereof)
Dave S-
…because we have to keep the hate going, and because we have to stick it to the French whenever possible.
For reporting, both are equally relevant I’d say.
I disagree with Lynx, but only slightly. To me the purpose of laws and policies is to make society run smoothly and to prevent things such as riots, not to be punitive for punitiveness’ sake. Laws should always be looking forward, not backward to what has already happened and cannot be changed.
So I would still want to punish the current rioters, but only to deters future riots. My disagreement with Lynx comes because I wouldn’t find it wise to say simply “it’s our own fault.” Because that does nothing to change the status quo nor prevent future riots.
It behooves all of the people of France, especially those in power to get inside the rioter’s heads, be they North African or Eastern European, and to at least attempt to address their concerns in a way the benefits all of French society.
I don’t care what happens to the french
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I saw video of some of the rioters and didn’t see many North/Sub Saharan Africans, I saw what looked to be youngish French citizens acting like morons.