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Riots in France declared over
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<p>The Brussels Journal <a href='http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/490'>reports</a> that the<br />
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French government has officially declared the banlieu riots over. The<br />
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article continues:</p>
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<blockquote><p>
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Police figures are at exactly 98 cars torched on Wednesday<br />
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night. This, the police say, is <q>a normal average.</q> Consequently<br />
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the 20th consecutive night of violence was declared the last one.
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</p></blockquote>
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<p>Yes, you read that correctly. 98 car-torchings a night is<br />
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“normal” in the glorious Fifth Republic in 2005. Civil order in the<br />
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banlieus has collapsed, but instead of addressing the breakdown the<br />
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French response is to define it out of existence. (In other breaking<br />
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news, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ol’ George Orwell is<br />
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spinning in his grave.)</p>
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<p>The American mainstream media, alas, have so much invested in the belief<br />
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that Eurosocialism is what <em>we</em> ought to be doing that they’ll<br />
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certainly take this as an excuse to drop the story. They’d rather cover<br />
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fictional riots in New Orleans than factual ones in Orleans, if only because<br />
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they can more easily blame George Bush for the former.</p>
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<p>The article also observes:</p>
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<blockquote><p>
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…the French state was obliged to borrow money last week to pay the<br />
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wages of its civil servants. <q>The money has run out. One must<br />
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concede: this is no example of a strong state.</q>
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</p></blockquote>
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<p>My previous <a href='http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=219'>prediction</a><br />
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stands. We’ve seen only the beginnings of the reckoning for decades<br />
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of folly. I expect to have the last laugh on every single one of the<br />
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useless idiots who insisted on the superiority of “humane” European<br />
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welfare-statism over American cowboy capitalism. But I don’t expect to<br />
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enjoy that laugh very much, because the payback is going to be brutal,<br />
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bloody, and horrible.</p>
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