Immigrant Riots

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Colon
This is ridiculous. This has almost been lasting for 2 weeks already and spreadin across France. Commentators are right to point the wrong-headed provocations and the conditions in the banlieus but this isn't some spontaneous eruption of frustration anymore. For some people any excuse suffices to start rampaging. Impose a curfew and deploy troops if need to. Sure it will cause grumbles but those people need to be shown who's boss. Then you can start working on the underlying causes.

It's been a long time since the Seine was last filled. Hopefully the situation will be dealt with.

[Colonâ„¢]

That's the problem with these too-little-too-late situations isn't it? At every stage you fail to put a halt on it, you need to react twice as strongly at the next stage to make it stop.

[Combat Ingrid]

I say take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[Seeker]

I think that whatever French government was in charge in the movie 'Papillon' had the best idea of all:

Penal Colonization in Guiana!

"As for France, forget her. The nation has rid herself of you altogether."

That way the rioters can have their culture and their own police, religion, and laws, and there won't be anymore riots because they'll all be building shining new cities in the jungle.

The best of all worlds. Everyone's happy with colonization!

[Colonâ„¢]

An article that seems even-handed: http://www.time.com/time/europe/maga...6690-1,00.html

A view-point: http://www.time.com/time/europe/paris/viewpoint.html

[Winston]

Lazarus and the Gimp, would you please proceed to take your incompetent stabs at me in plain English? You're making even less sense than usual.

[Datajack Franit]

typed racaille on google and found this. very amusing

[Az]

It seems that the police' harsh stance against morons pays off. Good to hear this.

Btw, are there rioters of non-muslim backgrounds?

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Winston
Lazarus and the Gimp, would you please proceed to take your incompetent stabs at me in plain English? You're making even less sense than usual.

Come on, Winston. Previous discussions shows immigrants (esp. muslims) are a pet peeve of yours. Don´t try to deny it. Laz is making perfect sense.

Another thing, on the previous page (I think) Spiffor said that the riots are dying down a bit. But the reports in swedish television say that the riots are escalating every night. And they are changing shape to a street war with the police. What are the reactions of the french press? Especially L´Humanité, Libération and Rouge. Spiffor?

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by Az
Btw, are there rioters of non-muslim backgrounds?

Blacks.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
Come on, Winston. Previous discussions shows immigrants (esp. muslims) are a pet peeve of yours.

You're wrong, Zoidberg. My pet peeve is political correctness, such as news reports neglecting to mention people's migratory background where it would actaully add to the understanding of a situation being reported on.

I'm critical of immigrants, sure, but if you've noticed, it's not just them. I'm critical of nearly everybody these days.

[Zoid]

PC has nothing to do with this. What you don´t seem to understand is that they don´t riot because they´re muslims/blacks/etc... It´s because they´ve been constantly oppressed and neglected for the last 30 years. White people would´ve rioted given that treatment too...

[Dinner]

Originally posted by CapTVK
Plus the fact that there seem to be a LOT of rioters out there. You may arrest a few hundreds, but what about the rest? A curfew would be the best way, but even that's almost a week too late now.

Fill the jails and let them break rocks. They can whine about racism after they've finished their 10 years of hard labor.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DanS


Don't continue to make an ass of yourself.

I believe that's been your monopoly, on the evidence of your posts so far.

I wonder why it's the Brits in this thread who are getting all pissy about it.

Because you managed to get things wrong from the very beginning ?

I note that this is the definition for immigrant that you use, and is not universally accepted. For instance, the Germans seem particularly stingy in giving out citizenship, even for people who have lived in Germany for their whole lives.

Oh, so that's why you started a thread about 'immigrant riots' (sic) in Birmingham in the United Kingdom and Parisian suburbs in France ?

Because you think that a German attitude towards guest workers and German citizenship is relevant to immigration laws in the United Kingdom and France ?

Dear me, a poor excuse.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
PC has nothing to do with this. What you don´t seem to understand is that they don´t riot because they´re muslims/blacks/etc... It´s because they´ve been constantly oppressed and neglected for the last 30 years. White people would´ve rioted given that treatment too...

Ok then. Thanks for telling me what I think.

Can I PM you sometime if I happen to forget what it is?