Sometimes people do have a legitimate gripe with social, economic, and political situations. However, when things degenerate into a riot, the victims are usually regular people, who like everyone else,are merely trying to live. How will torching the average working family's car and beating up old ladies facilitate social change? The average person never oppressed anyone, why do they, then, bear the brunt of a rioter's violence?
I honestly feel that the solution to a riot is not in riot police or the military, but in armed citizens. If police or military crush a riot, they can be accused of being jackbooted opressors. However, if armed citizens start shooting rioters who threaten life and property, the people themselves are sending the message that they won't be victimized by gangs of thugs. Of course, I'm preaching to the choir here.
The unspoken fact that these riots are religously motivated (Muslims) are what has made this bigger than it should have been. I hope the whole powder kegs blows up so the French will reap what they have sowed.
I don't want to sound smug about this (even though I'm rather enjoying it) but France has been over due for riots like this for at least 20 years. Back when I was in the Army I took the time to travel to France to enjoy the beaches and the typical vacation spots. It was a very nice place to be as long as you didn't stray too far. You know what I mean about not straying too far, every American city has a neighborhood just like it that you want to stay out of. Well not just like it, the ones in Paris and other major French cities have the feel of evil to them. In an American city the neighborhoods like this have a few bad gang members who rot out the area and spoil the place for the majority of good hardworking citizens who live there. You almost never see those hardworking people because they're at work or locked up in their homes keeping to themselves. In France (and most every other European country) almost everyone in those neighborhoods are a part of the problem. It's almost as if the entire population is in a street gang. Everyone from an 80 year old grandma to a 5 year old kid is in on it. If you blamed it on religion (moslems) you'd be 80% right. The other 20% of blame is for the French citizens who've kept denying a problem exists and tried to buy it off with a socialistic goverment that rewards vagrancy.
Iwonder if any of those people(rioters) are French citizens or they are there to live off the French Social programs.
If they are not citizens, round them up and deport them back to where they came from.
I hope this time the U.S. is not there to bail their butts out.
Maybe some other countries will learn something from Frances open door policy. Naaah! I doubt it.
I'm not too keen on levying insults at the French people as a whole. Somewhere in France, there are people who are pretty much just like me. They have a job that they dilligently show up for, they pay bills, pay rent, live paycheck to paycheck like most people in the world. The suddenly, because a large group of thugs is pi$$ed off about something the average person has nothing to do with, those regular people are attacked. I find no joy or satisfaction in that.
I do hope they wise up a little and stop being victims. I hope that for people everywhere.
The French asas a wholedeserve what ever they get .The people you say go to work and pay taxes support their president when he berates America and sells weapons to our enemies.The same terrorist we have been fighting are now burning down France, I say give them more gas.
If you are not with us on the war on terror then your weakness shows and you become the nextInfidels to be slaughtered.This goes back not only to W.W. II but to when "The great one" President Reagan bombed Libya & the French doubled the flight time by not allowing or planes over French air space.
I just don't understand riots
