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Monday, November 07, 2005

Roots of Paris riots should be addressed

The China Daily says that the roots of Paris riots should be addressed:

The unrest was concentrated in areas that are home to Paris's most neglected minorities - citizens of black and North African heritage....

The resentment over government neglect, high unemployment and relegation to shabby suburbs provided dry tinder for the flare-up of violence in the African immigrant community.

France's assimilation policy has failed to absorb the North African immigrants that arrived to work in the 1950s. Some 5 or 6 million French citizens are immigrants from North Africa, most of them Muslims.

Many of the immigrants' suburbs are cut off from the rest of French society by barriers of poverty and cultural alienation. In the suburbs for immigrants and their offspring, there are mostly substandard houses. Unemployment stands at 19.6 per cent - double the national average - and at more than 30 per cent among 21 to 29-year-olds, according to official figures. Incomes are 75 per cent below the average.

A European friend of ours agrees. The other day, he sent the following:

The true Facts are as follows :
The current running, and flaming riots in France are a direct consequence of a policy of oppression towards ex-French colonial citizens, operative for 50 years.

These Kids have seen their Grandparents, Parents, and Themselves ground to, and treated like Dirt. People broken and excluded - although, often enough, life-long Okay people. Folk who have tried, and given of their best - in the worst of jobs.

The hardest : Cleaners and Garbage Collectors. The French have not touched their own Garbage for 30 years, or more. God knows they produce enough of it. Where do the immigrant sons and daughters go ? The same. Or worse.

"France is for the French," as the far-right French Jean-Marie Le Pen political leader said. Adding, "I say what people think." He could not have been more right.

There is not a Soul on Earth that the French like, apart from themselves. Nobody. Are You really surprised that Youth wishes to put a torch to the whole thing ? I am not. Rotten, dead wood has to be gotten rid of somehow. It stinks, and is braying clutter. It is of no assistance. Quite the contrary.

The above was from a few days ago. Now, today, I have received another email from the same writer:

Bloggers take heart ! France has just jailed some bloggers, and, of course gotten shut down the blogs of some pro-protest rioters. Always in the vanguard of driving backwards, it has been some time since the Gauls abandoned Free Speech. Lying is Okay, though. One could even say, it is daily fare. Not a peep from the blog host server, Sky-something-or-other, except to say they are afraid and "don't mention my name."

Some of You may be aware of the famous dictatorships of Romania, Germany, China, Russia, etc. The Germans are also suppressing Free Speech, but there again, Lying is Okay. Lying is mostly executed to order by the paid MainStream media, who so despise Blog People, but who are themselves aware that they are paid Liars. Uncomfortable position. But, of course, they will continue under any Master.

Germany has never been poorer than the immediate post World War II years. France has a more or less hopeless problem of foreign integration - 50 years old from its ex-Muslim colonies. Chronic, and 25-year, 10% unemployment. Half the active work-force works directly and indirectly for the State. 30%-40% unemployment among the Third Generation immigrants ? The French solution : Jail the Bloggers, and impose curfew.

Remarkably, extra Magistates are drafted in to deal with, and sentence, teenage rioters and bloggers within Two Days. Political / Financial corruption matters take roughly Ten Years. IF there is conviction, rare, there is a suspended sentence and a light fine. And one wonders why the No Future Kids are rioting ? You have to be kidding !

Palema 8:09 PM

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