The ‘youth’ of France don’t like that the French elected a conservative president over their socialist candidate, Segolene Royal. These ‘youth’ who have a penchant for burning cars and anything else in their path are apparently protesting the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, who promised to do something about the ‘youth’ who have been burning Paris for a couple of years.
On election night, scattered violence was reported across France. Police reported that 270 people were taken in for questioning and that 367 parked vehicles had been torched. On a typical night in France, about 100 cars are burned.
There had been fears that the impoverished suburban housing projects, home to Arab and African immigrants and their French-born children, would erupt again at the victory of a man who once labeled young delinquents “scum.” That blunt comment, and Sarkozy’s tough anti-crime tactics as interior minister, helped fuel riots that raged for three weeks in housing projects in 2005.
Late Sunday, small bands of youths hurled stones and other objects at police at the Place de la Bastille in Paris, across town from a giant street party celebrating Sarkozy’s win. Some youths bared their backsides at riot officers, and police fired volleys of tear gas. Other fights with the police broke out in Toulouse, Lyon, Rennes and Nantes, police said. Two police unions said firebombs targeted schools and recreation centers in the Essonne region just south of Paris. [source]
It turns out it was 730 cars torched rather than the 367 reported in the earlier report.
Under their socialist government the French had criminalized reporting of crime by citizens unless they were professional reporters.
President-elect Sarkozy promised sweeping reforms to France’s laissez faire approach toward work, crime, international relations and pretty much everything else. Apparently, the French people want change and voted in a conservative president to take back control of their country.
I’m guessing the French are tired of being laughed at for their inability to defend themselves even from themselves.
I think that means I’ll have to stop referring to them as the Fwench. We’ll see ….
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Toasted Bread has a good round-up and pictures of press reports from Spain.
Dumb Ox Daily News responds to the election of Sarkozy…
We salute the French! We welcome, along with Merkel in Germany, the awakening of the people in Western Europe to their sense of true humanity and to their duties in this tidal moment of history.
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May 8th, 2007 at 4:41 am
Hey, Beth, Thanks for the link!!!
If this is happening in France, I can’t imagine what would happen here if Zapatero losses. That’s why the attacks on righties have multiplied in recent times…. (:-&
May 8th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
France has provided the American voters many lessons in how starkly contrasting candidates, failed policies of
high taxes and overregulation and “scum†immigrants who regularly challenge their host nation’s culture, can
inspire record turnouts of over eighty five percent of a population. In the most important election of a
generation, French men and women marched to the polls to redirect the future of France .
The citizens had a real choice. They faced two candidates with differing present and future visions of a proud
country who was on the verge of losing its grandeur.
Small businesses were suffocated in a system that punished growth while workers were penalized for laboring
beyond thirty five hours and families were watching their rich culture yield to a prehistoric yet conquering one.
In one corner stood Sarkozy, a determined realist intent on implementing practical proposals to restore the French
economy to its perceived rightful place in the lead pack of economic powers. His proposals targeted personal tax
reductions, eliminating the thirty five hour work week and reforming a system that punished small businesses for
each measure of their growth.
The other aspect of his candidacy possibly eclipsed his economic program which was his gritty resolve in
preserving French culture in the face of the threat of radical Islam which had spread throughout France’s
extensive immigrant community. He was fierce in confronting its menace and politically incorrect in
characterizing its followers. Sarkozy views the world in absolutes where people are increasingly receptive to
judging in relative terms.
The other corner was occupied by Madame Royal who, like liberal American politicians, campaigned by fear and
castigation. To her and her followers, cutting welfare benefits, imposing immigration restrictions, introducing
competitive economic measures and putting forth the idea that human beings were capable of 36 hours of work
per week was draconian.
The voters disagreed.
Out of vogue are thirty five hour work weeks, unmanageable and unaffordable taxes, demanding and draining
immigrants and an economy ill equipped to compete. In its place are paired down policies aimed at pragmatism
and economic growth.
In her concession speech, without mentioning her opponent’s name once, she professed her hopes of a peaceful
transition without riots. But, like many American civil rights activists before her, she had utilized the tired riot
instigator. By warning against them, she was subliminally inspiring them.
Most importantly, these elections showed the failures of leftist policies. With a conservative in government in
both France and Germany , Europe has shown a willingness to abandon the failed ideology that guarantees
everything while accomplishing nothing.
The question becomes, will Americans have to experience failed immigration, bitter culture divisions and labor
unions with too much power to recognize the necessity of a conservative government?
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