Tuesday, November 08, 2005

France To Permit Curfews

From the International Herald Tribune

Read it for yourself. Here are some excerpts and my two-cents worth:


PARIS - Rioting in France claimed its first fatality on Monday, and the French government, facing growing criticism for its inability to stop the unrest, said it would send additional police officers to troubled communities and permit local authorities to impose mandatory curfews.

Herein lies the fundamental problem with the way France is handling this Muslim uprising. As the title suggests, the French government has finally decided to permit local authorities to do what should have been done days ago. This begs several questions, one of which is, why do local authorities have to wait for the national government to "give permission", to protect their communities?


The state will be firm and just," Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said in a televised address. "Communities can, under authority of the Interior Ministry, invoke curfews if they believe it will restore calm and protect residents."

While Villepin said the government planned to address root causes of the violence by increasing opportunities for young people, he repeatedly emphasized the importance of restoring order.


Where the hell did they get this guy? I know who he is, I know he was instrumental in making France's flawed case for NOT invading Iraq as France's ambassador to the United Nations. But what I want to know is, what damned rock did this inept bastard crawl out of? Francois the corner butcher has more sense, than he does.


Villepin ruled out army intervention in an interview with France's TF1 television, saying "We are not at that point." But he said 1,500 police officers would join 8,000 already deployed in the troubled areas.

Unbelievable.

Treating a Muslim insurgency that threatens the peace, stability, and the well-being of every French citizen as a law enforcement issue, has got to be one of the most assinine policies that any nation could possibly undertake. Napoleon and DeGaulle (for all of their faults) must be rolling over in their graves. Hell, even Mitterand wouldn't have put up with this.

It wouldn't be so bad, if they were making some headway. But the movement is growing, spreading, and becoming more and more organized, daily. French authorities have no more of a handle on this than in the beginning, and they have had 12 days to get their acts together and figure it out.


President Jacques Chirac, in private comments that were more conciliatory than his warnings Sunday that rioters would be caught and punished, acknowledged French failings with integration, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia said after meeting Monday with the French leader.

She said Chirac deplored the "ghettoization of youths of African or North African origin" and recognized "the incapacity of French society to fully accept them," according to reports by news agencies.

France "has not done everything possible for these youths, supported them so they feel understood, heard and respected," Chirac said, adding that unemployment runs as high as 40 percent in some suburbs, four times the national rate, according to Vike-Freiberga.

Now comes the excuses, the apologies, and the rationalizations that have led to them to this mess, to start with. Good job, Jacques. Let's just validate what these thugs are doing. Whatever you do, do not hold the seditious elements that are behind this, accountable in any way, shape, or form.

If you really want to blame yourself, put the blame on the socialist dream you sell to the world that causes people to want to come to your country, only to fail them once they get there (just like it does the average French citizen).


Should the violence continue, the image of France will suffer along with economy, the leader of the French employers' federation warned on Monday.

Damn the image problem.

How about we say that should the violence continue, France as we know it, will soon cease to exist? I know they are arrogant socialists that brought most of this on themselves, but they are my favorite arrogant socialists and the average French citizen deserves better than what their leadership is providing, right now.



Speaking on the Europe 1 radio station, Laurence Parisot emphasized the importance of regaining control of the situation as soon as possible.

"Make no mistake on the order of priorities, on what is the top priority, it is the restoration of public order," Parisot said, adding that companies were ready to work at giving opportunities to youths within immigrant communities.

How about they say, "STOP or we will SHOOT!"? And actually be prepared to do it, if they don't?

Just asking.

UPDATE - The AP is reporting that Jacques Chirac has just declared that France is in a state of emergency.

What's your hurry, Jacques?
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UPDATE II - Here is an excerpt from the above linked AP article about the reaction of Chirac's leftist critics:


The resort to curfews drew immediate criticism from Chirac's political opponents. Former Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius said the emergency measures must be "controlled very, very closely."

Communist Party leader Marie-George Buffet said the decree could enflame rioters. "It could be taken anew as a sort of challenge to carry out more violence," she said.

Do I need to say anything, at all? Or is this self-explanatory, enough?

9 comments:

Christian Prophet said...

Okay, so they squelch the rioters. But the problem doesn't go away. I'm led to believe that if the French government allowed business types freedom to do their thing, millions of jobs and opportunities would be created.

LA Sunset said...

Believe me, this goes much deeper than economics. Much deeper than I can explain, in one essay.

G_in_AL said...

Two things I will stand by until the end of this:

1. If France is the Socialist Utopia, how can anyone be oppressed or economically disatisfied?

2. This will escalate until the adress the other "root" problem here. Radical Islamists are using this as another intifada.

You saw my post LA. I could bring 5 more news peices together to keep putting more feathers in that hat.

LA Sunset said...

"You saw my post LA."

I see all of your posts at some point or another, G.

I don't mind saying, you have done a great job at you blog. Keep it up.

All_I_Can_Stands said...

Funny how the liberals criticized the FEMA response to Katrina, yet they will say nothing to Chirac's 2 week (or you could also say too weak) delay.

LA Sunset said...

Yeah, that was quite interesting, wasn't it? People who live in glass houses should never throw stones. You words will always come back to haunt you.

I am not an overly religious person by any means. But it seems to me that Solomon wrote something that reads something like:

"Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel".

That is applicable here.

Anonymous said...

My friends, we are looking at the birth of Francistan. Now, I've heard that this problem would have been solved already with a French surrender. But the problem is that both sides are French. Las Vegas is now putting odds on which side will surrender first.

LA Sunset said...

"I think part of the reason it got as bad as it did was because they refused to confront the rioters"

I think that is a BIG reason.

Leslie Bates said...

We have to remember that the Left (wherever it is) regards existing societies as an evil to demolished in order to make way for their perfect fantasy collective. Anyone, or any group, that acts in defense of the existing society is evil in the eyes of the Left.