The Government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. - Mark Twain

Monday, November 07, 2005

In France, things just keep going from bad to merde.

President Jacques Chirac promised Sunday to restore public order across France as unrest spread from suburban Paris to cities south and north, with rioters injuring 10 police officers, throwing Molotov cocktails and ramming a car into a housing project during an 11th night of mayhem.

Ten riot police were injured by birdshot in a clash in the southern Paris suburb of Grigny, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said. It was unclear whether the officers were shot with hunting rifles or a less lethal weapon, he said. Two officers were hospitalized; their lives were not in danger.

Overnight Sunday-Monday, at least 764 vehicles were burned, and police made 173 arrests, Hamon’s office said.

Across the country, rioters pelted Molotov cocktails at cars and a school, and firefighters in some areas worked under police escort. New unrest was reported in Toulouse in the southwest and Rennes in the northwest.

And what are they rioting for?

The violence has escalated from an outburst of anger in suburban Paris housing projects into a nationwide show of disdain for French authority from youths and minorities, most French-born children of Arab and black Africans angered by years of unequal opportunities.

Unequal opportunities?  My ass.  They’re faced with the same issues that minorities everywhere have.  They come to France to take advantage of their welfare system, get the “You owe me” mentality bred into them, and then their children riot out of frustration that blessed Allah has not provided a better life for him.  So they resent their state and take it out on the French government, when the true culprit is their own ignorant, uneducated culture which prevents them from succeeding in modern French society.

Why work when you can expect.  Why adapt when you can riot.  Why create when you can destroy.  It’s really all these types are good for.