insomnomaniac

Let's all learn from the French

Well it's clear we should have been taking advice from the French during the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. When they cried "Mon Dieu!" and clucked their tongues in disgust at the way our "underclass" was being treated (as if George Bush caused the Hurricane because he doesn't like black people), they obviously knew better.

Let me see... French Muslims (who by any standard are far from as poor or underprivileged as our New Orleans black population) riot and burn everything in their wake for a week, and the response of the concerned citizenry is what?

The spreading violence has shocked national leaders and community residents into action as the French prime minister held special meetings Saturday and concerned citizens participated in a silent march.

As many as 3,000 people took part in a silent march Saturday morning, speaking out against the rioting and its root causes, state radio reported.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said the government is unanimous in its determination to end the violence and address the problems.

"Once this crisis is overcome and calm is restored, each must also understand that there's also a certain feeling of injustice in some neighborhoods," Sarkozy said Saturday, according to a translation from Reuters News Agency. "I have thought this for a long time, and said it as well."

There have been calls by the Green Party and the Communist Party for Sarkozy to resign, after he called the rioters "scum" earlier in the week -- language that served only to inflame the vandalism.

Appeasement. That's always the answer. Don't call people who riot and burn and loot everything within arm's reach "scum," even if that's precisely what they are. Don't stop for half a second to wonder why THEY don't silently march for what they want (like blacks in this country did and sometimes still do), don't consider for a second that there might be an ulterior motive to all this mahem--one that has little or nothing to do with jobs and "equality" but rather religion and "superiority."

No, when thugs and vandals rampage through your streets, silently march and blame everyone BUT them for the destruction. Makes perfect sense.

How glad am I that I live in a nation where (at least some of us) would grab our guns and head out there to stop the violence ourselves. Come to think of it, I have to wonder if the reason this kind of crap doesn't happen here is that the people who might do it are just a teensy bit afraid that would be exacly what would happen (by here I mean of course in the sane parts of the country that respect the Constitutional right to bear arms).

Silent marches? I think not.

Posted by insomnomaniac at November 6, 2005 2:42 PM