First, the good news:
You see, I have had this exact idea for a few years now... that new car dealerships have planetkiller vehicles for sale, and unless we burn them now, they will spew GGs for the next 20 years....
Also, it would be encouragement to build cars that are more efficient.
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The Riots in France
Those allegedly responsible -- groups of young Muslim men of largely North African and black African origin -- have said that they are protesting economic misery, racial discrimination and provocative policing, broken promises by the French government to its immigrant communities: The French integration model insists that all citizens are equal before the state, but some say cultural minorities are being left without a voice.
Immigrant ghettos like the ones in France are the root of the problem. It looks like they are just a cheap labour force, not unlike American's colored people.
These ghettos, 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.
No doubt, Muslum extremists go there to recruit, it is fertile ground where poverty exists- thats how the link to Muslum extremism got connected to these riots, I doubt very much that these youth are rioting because they want France to embrace Islamic Traditions, not at all.
The ugly, often poorly maintained blocks of public housing that have become a nightly battlefield are testament to 40 years of government policy that has concentrated immigrants and their families in well-defined districts away from city centers, as housing there became more expensive.
"Working class suburbs have become ethnic ghettos," says Marc Cheb Sun, who edits "Respect," a magazine aimed mostly at young black and North African readers. "That is the origin of the problem."
The French police have not helped - when they detain darker skinned people, brutalise them, a backlash will ensue.
Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose reference to the troublemakers as "scum" appeared to inflame passions. No doubt!!
"They [police] check our papers everywhere, all the time, for no reason," complains one youth in Clichy who did not want to be identified. "And the checks are getting rougher and rougher."
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And then this experiment to show the disadvantages of ghetto'ed people in France:
Jean-Francois Amadieu, a university professor who founded the "Discrimination Observatory" discovered in experiments over the past year.
He sent out fictitious applications for sales jobs, allegedly coming from six different sorts of applicant, ranging from a white male to a woman of North African origins, all with the same resume.
Applicants writing from addresses known to be in "difficult" areas received half as many invitations to an interview as those from less notorious districts. The "North African" male candidate received five times fewer invitations than his white counterpart, says Professor Amadieu.
At the same time, complains Michele Lereste, who runs the "Green Light" social-work agency in Villetaneuse, just North of Paris, where the projects are almost entirely inhabited by immigrant-descended families, government funding cuts have closed a number of job-training institutes, "and we are finding it harder and harder to get employers to take apprentices from our district."
"The kids learn all the French republican values such as equality in school, and then they find in practice that it's an illusionSociety created these ghettos and now it has to deal with them."Police checks./
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K- see? when you hammer on a person long enough, they tend to stand up and swat back.
I see these riots as economics related, not religion.
Muslims are under attack as the fears [unfounded] of them taking over the world are circulated in the mass media. They hope to get public opinion against Islamists , so that aggressive police actions against them will be tolerated.
A lack of opportunity, a lack of equality, is the real force behind their rage. Every developed nation has this class of labourers, they do the dirty work cheaply. Ahhh, good old capitalism!
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You see, I have had this exact idea for a few years now... that new car dealerships have planetkiller vehicles for sale, and unless we burn them now, they will spew GGs for the next 20 years....
Also, it would be encouragement to build cars that are more efficient.
--------------------------
The Riots in France
Those allegedly responsible -- groups of young Muslim men of largely North African and black African origin -- have said that they are protesting economic misery, racial discrimination and provocative policing, broken promises by the French government to its immigrant communities: The French integration model insists that all citizens are equal before the state, but some say cultural minorities are being left without a voice.
Immigrant ghettos like the ones in France are the root of the problem. It looks like they are just a cheap labour force, not unlike American's colored people.
These ghettos, 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.
No doubt, Muslum extremists go there to recruit, it is fertile ground where poverty exists- thats how the link to Muslum extremism got connected to these riots, I doubt very much that these youth are rioting because they want France to embrace Islamic Traditions, not at all.
The ugly, often poorly maintained blocks of public housing that have become a nightly battlefield are testament to 40 years of government policy that has concentrated immigrants and their families in well-defined districts away from city centers, as housing there became more expensive.
"Working class suburbs have become ethnic ghettos," says Marc Cheb Sun, who edits "Respect," a magazine aimed mostly at young black and North African readers. "That is the origin of the problem."
The French police have not helped - when they detain darker skinned people, brutalise them, a backlash will ensue.
Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose reference to the troublemakers as "scum" appeared to inflame passions. No doubt!!
"They [police] check our papers everywhere, all the time, for no reason," complains one youth in Clichy who did not want to be identified. "And the checks are getting rougher and rougher."
------
And then this experiment to show the disadvantages of ghetto'ed people in France:
Jean-Francois Amadieu, a university professor who founded the "Discrimination Observatory" discovered in experiments over the past year.
He sent out fictitious applications for sales jobs, allegedly coming from six different sorts of applicant, ranging from a white male to a woman of North African origins, all with the same resume.
Applicants writing from addresses known to be in "difficult" areas received half as many invitations to an interview as those from less notorious districts. The "North African" male candidate received five times fewer invitations than his white counterpart, says Professor Amadieu.
At the same time, complains Michele Lereste, who runs the "Green Light" social-work agency in Villetaneuse, just North of Paris, where the projects are almost entirely inhabited by immigrant-descended families, government funding cuts have closed a number of job-training institutes, "and we are finding it harder and harder to get employers to take apprentices from our district."
"The kids learn all the French republican values such as equality in school, and then they find in practice that it's an illusionSociety created these ghettos and now it has to deal with them."Police checks./
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K- see? when you hammer on a person long enough, they tend to stand up and swat back.
I see these riots as economics related, not religion.
Muslims are under attack as the fears [unfounded] of them taking over the world are circulated in the mass media. They hope to get public opinion against Islamists , so that aggressive police actions against them will be tolerated.
A lack of opportunity, a lack of equality, is the real force behind their rage. Every developed nation has this class of labourers, they do the dirty work cheaply. Ahhh, good old capitalism!
