The Brussels Journal reports that the
French government has officially declared the banlieu riots over. The
article continues:
Police figures are at exactly 98 cars torched on Wednesday
night. This, the police say, isa normal average.Consequently
the 20th consecutive night of violence was declared the last one.
Yes, you read that correctly. 98 car-torchings a night is
“normal” in the glorious Fifth Republic in 2005. Civil order in the
banlieus has collapsed, but instead of addressing the breakdown the
French response is to define it out of existence. (In other breaking
news, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ol’ George Orwell is
spinning in his grave.)
The American mainstream media, alas, have so much invested in the belief
that Eurosocialism is what we ought to be doing that they’ll
certainly take this as an excuse to drop the story. They’d rather cover
fictional riots in New Orleans than factual ones in Orleans, if only because
they can more easily blame George Bush for the former.
The article also observes:
…the French state was obliged to borrow money last week to pay the
wages of its civil servants.The money has run out. One must
concede: this is no example of a strong state.
My previous prediction
stands. We’ve seen only the beginnings of the reckoning for decades
of folly. I expect to have the last laugh on every single one of the
useless idiots who insisted on the superiority of “humane” European
welfare-statism over American cowboy capitalism. But I don’t expect to
enjoy that laugh very much, because the payback is going to be brutal,
bloody, and horrible.