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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Where do they *get* these people?
2007-05-08
Just sharing the snippet of an article that caused my boggle to let all its blue smoke out...
The leader of France's defeated Socialists appealed for calm Tuesday after a second night of post-election violence left cars burned and store windows smashed.

While the unrest has been small-scale, it sent a message to Nicolas Sarkozy: He may have won the presidency, but he hasn't won over the many French who consider him — and his free-market reforms and tough line on crime and immigration — frighteningly brutal.

Posted by:Seafarious

#9  Dave D. - it's probably due to de-sensitization. Some french or rather anti-french blogs indicate that 200 cars per night is about average. 700 isn't that big of an increase.....
Posted by: Pancho Sheting8326   2007-05-08 17:19  

#8  Awright, awright. Update:

The continuing violence in France shows that the white male Roosevelt administration's phallic decision to invade France has proven to be a stategic disaster with transparent racist and sexist overtones. Moreover, a study in Lancet establishes that over a million Frenchwomen have died since 1944, and that each was holding a baby duckling at the time of her demise. We must withdraw now. The Second World War is lost.
Posted by: Matt   2007-05-08 14:30  

#7  Matt you left out the Frenchwomen and Frenchminorities, you chauvinist swine. Surely they've suffered unduly under the tyranny of Rooseveltian patrimony.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-05-08 13:53  

#6  The continuing violence in France shows that the Roosevelt adminstration's unilateral decision to invade France has proven to be a stategic disaster. Moreover, a study in Lancet establishes that over a million Frenchmen have died since 1944. We must withdraw now. The war is lost.
Posted by: Matt   2007-05-08 13:41  

#5  It's like the BBC who describe the (failure reward system) benefits as "generous", but would never described the taxation to fund this stupidity as suffocating.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2007-05-08 11:37  

#4  No kidding. If that kind of thing happened over here both the city and state governments would have their heads handed to them, and maybe even the federal government too. And we'd be seeing documentaries about it on the History Channel for the next 20 years.

Posted by: Dave D.   2007-05-08 11:34  

#3  That's when the boggle started to steam.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-05-08 11:31  

#2  Let's see who's "brutal": 2 nights of riots vs. ?
Posted by: Spot   2007-05-08 11:23  

#1  "While the unrest has been small-scale, it sent a message..."

"Small-scale"? From Reuters:
Official figures released on Monday said demonstrators set fire to 730 cars and injured 78 policemen across France, with 592 people arrested in the violent protests against the tough-talking former interior minister.
That's small-scale? Are Watts-scale riots a nightly occurance in France, or something?

Posted by: Dave D.   2007-05-08 11:21  

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