paris riots
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- JazX0
alright, forget it, you've missed my point. I'd rather not argue with you kids
- Crouwel0
C'est l'histoire d'une société qui tombe et qui, au fur et à mesure de sa chute se répète pour se rassurer :
"Jusqu'ici tout va bien, jusqu'ici tout va bien, jusqu'ici tout va bien."
Mais ce qui compte c'est pas la chute.
C'est l'atterrissage.
unfittoprint
(Nov 3 05, 08:59)amen.
in fact i think i am going to rent that movie again.
- gruntt0
i think 10 years from now with the power of hindsight and in depth studies it will be found that the spark that caused the riots was the song "break stuff" by limp bizkit.
- JazX0
As in much of Europe, the French Muslim community was established largely by waves of immigrant laborers in the 1960s through the mid-1970s, and has continued under family reunification provisions since. These populations have grown, but remained, by and large, below average in income and social status. Recent studies -- which focus on "immigrants" but refer to Muslim-related issues -- describe the nearly two million residents of increasingly "ghettoized" suburbs, forming a culturally distinct, socially and economically "excluded" population. Meanwhile, Muslims make up a disproportionate fraction of the prison population, and have virtually no political representation. It is becoming apparent that, despite France’s commitment to view all French as equal, the nation must make a special effort to reckon with this generally poor, voiceless, frustrated, and, some believe, increasingly radical and criminal group. The data above, taken from news reports of a leaked national intelligence service study and other sources, are an incomplete but telling sample of the challenge that France and its Muslim population face.
- Crouwel0
photographs:
- JazX0
great pix Crouwel.
- garettwest0
Yes that's right kids. Burn down your neighborhoods. That will teach 'the man.'
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- thinman0
seems as if theres to many unhappy foreign national types in the burbs of Paris
stupid they burn down their own area
- Rand0
you know how sometimes when you get mad and punch the wall, even though it breaks your own knuckles, because at that moment you don't give a shit?
- thinman0
but for 8 days straight.?
- todelete__20
hahaah. yeah i usually only punch a wall once. not punch it, then go to bed. wake up, do my daily activities. then punch the wall again that night and repeat for the next 8 days.
ouch.
- blackspade0
"There was a riot on the streets
Tell me where were you?You were sittin' home watchin' your TV.. While I was participating in some anarchy
First spot we hit it was the liquor store, I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford
With red lights flashin', time to retire, And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire
Next stop we hit, it was the music shop, It only took one brick to make the window drop
Finally we got our own P.A.
Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?"
- JazX0
god*amnit, those people are RACISTS for burning that stuff down. RACISTS to the power infinity, I say!!
grrr & gnnnnn
- jox0
This is the way it goes, they made gigantic concrete bunkers in the 60s, stuffed a crazy variety of nationalities in them but none or very little of them seem to make a living and now they're talking about "cleaning up" the mess they created themselves over the last 45 years.
This isn't unique to Paris, same thing goes on down in Nice and Marseille only we don't hear about it as much.. yet.
Although setting your own damned neighborhood on fire because some idiot kids were hiding from the law in a locked down power station and got tezla coiled (red alert, remember?) is the wrong way to start to intregrate yourselves to society. How can they live with themselves knowing kids can't come to daycare tomorrow because they set the kindergarten on fire to "make a statement"?
- JazX0
jox speaks the Gospel.
you Monaco devil
;)
- Cactus0
This stuff has been going on for long time now although this one is quite intense if only because of it's durability.
A stagnent economy + unchecked immigration of unskilled workers + political inertia = The Fire Next Time
Coming soon to a theater near you.
Better get used to it.
- JazX0
ahhh and look out of the mouth of a Frenchman himself. Of course he must be a 'racist' for saying immigration of unskilled workers.
ohh dear...
:)
- -sputnik-0
i find it funny when someone calls a person "racist", insinuating intolerance, and then turns around and calls them a cunt.
not the brightest of statements.
- pepe0
i lived in northern Paris in puteau in the early 90s in one of those high rise areas built for arab and muslims mostly. Its easy as hell to see why this happened (again), you repress people long enough and build a cage with very limited opportunity for them to live in, eventually it will burst in some way.
- Cactus0
Despite the French press and the Socialist opposition being broadly sympathetic to the rioters. Most people, if big media webblogs and radio call-in programs are anything to go by, support the position of M Sarkozy, the tough-talking interior minister against the violence.