France: Bad to Worse

From the Associated Press:

Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence, as youths torched an ambulance and stoned medical workers coming to the aid of a sick person...Bands of youths also burned a nursery school, warehouses and more than 750 cars overnight as the violence that spread from the restive Paris suburbs to towns around France.
At the nursery school in Acheres, west of Paris, part of the roof was caved in, childrens' photos stuck to blackened walls, and melted plastic toys littered the floor.
The town had been previously untouched by the violence. Some residents demanded that the army be deployed, or that citizens rise up and form militias. At the school gate, the mayor tried to calm tempers.
"We are not going to start militias," Mayor Alain Outreman said
[link here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051105/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting ]

Yup, that nursery school sure has been oppressing those Muslims for far too long now! And the remark about wanting to form militias made me laugh, although that is certainly not an appropriate reaction.

A helpless citizenry, at the whim of insurrectionists, forced to rely on a police force whose deployment rests upon the political whims and fortunes of a nation's ruling class...this is the world that the gun-control nuts would have us live in.

Think of the Democrat's France-like appeasement of these types of people, and their fealty to the extreme gun-control groups...this can be our world, soon enough...

Video available of our liberal's paradise via Gateway Pundit here: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/11/rioting-day-9-paris-becomes-palestine.html
("Paris becomes Palestine"...heh)

And somewhat related, I have this story from USA Today, which wonders why Americans are not taking an interest in the President's trip to Argentina and his trade policies in the Americas, which will likely benefit the poorer nations/peoples in the region:

...Therefore, rather than focus on the tedium of dull meetings that drone on about lifting trade barriers, reducing agricultural subsidies and reviving stalled trade talks, they [ the American media -ed.] have been aiming their cameras and microphones toward the protest demonstrations staged by groups seeking the spotlight. Their causes, pressed in stark terms, range from opposing the war in Iraq to halting corporate globalization of the economy...
At the same time, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a leftist who has fashioned himself into an outspoken and flamboyant critic of the United States in general and Bush in particular, has taken advantage of the increased media presence to further tweak the nose of his American counterpart.
....maybe the work of the meetings will produce rich fruit down the road in terms of more jobs and less poverty in the region. But for now, Americans are hearing more about Chavez and the protests, and a lot of other things, than they are about Latin American trade policy. And that's the way it is.

France is burning due to the failure of leftist policies? No, that doesn't hurt Bush, let's not report it...wait, a few hundred anarchists rioting in the streets against America? Stop the presses! Let's go there live!

Pathetic, and a dangerous game to boot...

More here http://jerseynut.blogspot.com/2005/11/muslim-offensive-continues-apace-in.html
and here http://jerseynut.blogspot.com/2005/11/le-grande-poulet.html