Socialism in Action

[Professor S]

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.js...07/258994.html

Rioting by French youths spread to 300 towns overnight and a 61-year-old man hurt in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest that has shocked the country, police said Monday.

Chirac said unemployment runs as high as 40 percent in some suburban neighborhoods, four times the national rate of just under 10 percent, Vike-Freiberga said. On Sunday night, vandals burned more than 1,400 vehicles, and clashes around the country left 36 police injured, setting a new high for overnight arson and violence since rioting started last month, national police chief Michel Gaudin told a news conference.

Attacks overnight Sunday to Monday were reported in 274 towns, and police made 395 arrests, Gaudin said.

About 4,700 cars have been burned in France since the rioting began and 1,200 suspects were detained at least temporarily, Gaudin said.

The growing violence is forcing France to confront long-simmering anger in its suburbs, where many Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with high unemployment, racial discrimination and despair _ fertile terrain for crime of all sorts as well as for Muslim extremists offering frustrated youths a way out.

France, with 5 million Muslims, has the largest Islamic population in Western Europe.

I think the reasons for the violence are more than just the unemployment rate, but I do think that is the main reason. I mean, 40% dependending on race and ethnicity? And everyone thought America was the home of racism and inequality...

Politics aside, I really hope that Chirac can get things under control and the violence stops. There are a lot of innocent people getting hurt.

[GameMaster]

If Africans and their French-born children don't like living on society's margins, perhaps they shouldn't have chose to live in Paris. Some people just enjoy setting themselves up for a lifetime of misery.

And if the youths think asinine rioting is going to land them a job, let them to continue to be the butt of this joke. I'm sure the prisions are going to need a lot more cafeteria personnel to dish out the mush. That kind of job will fit the incompetent youths like a glove.

I hope Chirac is able to bring justice down on the trouble makers and sustain peace in his land. And I pray for the safety of the adults, elderly, and travellers in Paris who are in the midst of the violence.

[Krypton]

some awful things going on in this world.

[The Duggler]

Strangler, why "Socialism in action"?

[Typhoid]

I think the reasons for the violence are more than just the unemployment rate, but I do think that is the main reason. I mean, 40% dependending on race and ethnicity? And everyone thought America was the home of racism and inequality...

Anyone who thinks that America is the home of racism and inequality is retarded, and needs to learn more on South Africa.

[Dylflon]

Socialism is a pretty sweet idea as long as you don't screw it up.

Strangler, you can have your capitalism. Whatever. I don't care.

I'm going to go over here and farm potatoes.