Thursday, October 26, 2006

So much seething...so little time.

French yutes don't have a list of grievances they have a freaking BOOK.

Immigrant Youths March Through Paris

Some choice bits:

PARIS - Mixing rap music with memories of France's revolutionary past, youths from poor neighborhoods of largely Muslim and African descent marched through Paris on Wednesday to present a collection of 20,000 complaints to lawmakers. The demonstrators held ragged-looking notebooks filled with complaints while crossing southern Paris toward the Assembly, the lower house of parliament, after a stop at the Senate. (ed. note: Presentation is everything folks and ragged never works)

Police said the violence, however, was not driven by Islamic groups. (ed. note: RIGHT.)

AC-Le Feu was created shortly after the three weeks of unrest sparked by the deaths on Oct. 27, 2005, of two young boys of African descent who were electrocuted in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois, northeast of Paris, while hiding from police. The group, whose name is a play on words for "enough fire," crisscrossed France in two painted minibuses in a monthslong tour of 120 suburbs and towns to meet with young and old and document their worries in their "Book of Grievances." (ed. note: Two painted minibuses? Holy Hippie Van!)

"I'm worried because not only has the French society's attitude not changed but I think it has even worsened," he said in an interview with AP Television News. "A large part of French society disdains the suburbs." Dilain noted that not a single government minister attended the opening this month of a high-profile photo exhibit of life in Clichy-sous-Bois. "No one. No one. No one came," he said. (ed. note: They were afraid.)

Azouz Begag, the government minister for equal opportunities, warned against saying nothing has changed since the riots. "Then the message will be that you can break France," he told reporters. "If you want fire, there will be fire."(ed.note: In my experience lawless rioters do not make good employees.)

Azouz evidently has inside info and the disaffected French yutes have moved up to buses from cars. Will bombing trains and flying planes into buildings be next?: France boosts security after arson attacks

As always No Pasaran has the best lowdown on the situation:

Ex-Prime Minister and Presidential candidate Laurent Fabius blames Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for the renewed violence spreading among French youths. Ex-Social Affairs Minister François Fillon declared that France's very own social cohesion is at risk. Other than capitulating by re-routing bus lines, ignoring the role played by France's second most popular religion (which is undoubtedly the most practiced), and doing everything possible to not hurt a single rioter (because that would get them really angry), the media is being asked to hush-up the whole One Year Anniversary thing because if the media doesn't talk about violence past, the hope is that violence present will somehow go away by itself.