butchersapron
Bring back hanging
**yep**
riots in paris banlieu...
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
note to everyone
if you have nothing to say about the riots in the paris banlieus, please don't bother posting on this thread.
if you have nothing to say about the riots in the paris banlieus, please don't bother posting on this thread.
yeah i did after a bit of thought. i hope yr right.butchersapron said:
meanwhile, urban violence/ rioting/ unrest/ uprising spread. 900 cars (doubling every night it seems) torched. nurseries and a school were burnt overnight and unrest spread to Nice, Lille, Marseille and Toulouse.
bbc report
like thursday night its more arson than confrontations with the police.
Youth unemployment played in the riots, I wonder if they will be used as an excuse to "liberalise" the French economy. having said that, it was mentioned above, soomeone's friend with a baccleureate (sp) working in McDonalds.........
I wanted to talk sometime generally about working class ghettos on the edges of cities. Shall I start a new thread maybe to keep this one just focussed on Paris?
I wanted to talk sometime generally about working class ghettos on the edges of cities. Shall I start a new thread maybe to keep this one just focussed on Paris?
spring-peeper
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Isambard said:
I vote new thread and keep this one more of a newsy thing.
kasheem said:
Exactly. And Torching ambulances and medical workers rushing to the aid of stricken people, disgusting.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9891709/
More quotes from the artilce.
"Bands of youths also burned a nursery school, warehouses and nearly 900 cars overnight as the violence spread from the restive Paris suburbs to towns around France."
"Fires and other incidents were reported in Lille, Toulouse, Rouen and elsewhere on the second night of unrest in areas beyond metropolitan Paris. An incendiary device was tossed at the wall of a synagogue in Pierrefitte"
"Late Friday in Meaux, east of Paris, youths prevented firefighters from evacuating a sick person from an apartment in a housing project, pelting them with stones and torching the awaiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry officer said"
The violence seemd to escalate last night
spring-peeper
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Flavour said:
I've been finding out that burning cars in France seems to be an accepted method of protest. Saw annual number of burnings somewhere.
We walk around with protest signs, AQ blows things up, and the French burn cars. I guess it is a cultural thing.
I'm going to sit on my hands at this point.
pbman said:
Is the USA going to shun countries that practice this then pbman?
Burning cars etc is not uncommon as a means of protest in France and elsewhere. It's slightly more in your face than walking in a circle with placards to be sure.
I'm not sure that the French Interior Ministry is exaclty a reliable source on this but I don't think resuce workers are legitimate targets.
and chopping off thumbs?pbman said:
citydreams
on the road again
Back to the thread...
Kasheen can keep his class war theories for bedtime reading. I support anyone that feels the need to demonstrate.
Kasheen can keep his class war theories for bedtime reading. I support anyone that feels the need to demonstrate.
spring-peeper
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pbman said:
Very good, you have been paying attention.
*pats pbman on his head and gives him a cookie*
spring-peeper
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tobyjug said:They are selective in what cars they burn, it depends which department number is on the number plate.
Glad to see you back, btw - missed your comments.
spring-peeper
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pbman said:EVeryint the us does, is a cultural thing as well.
Including owning lots of guns.
Please refrain from commenting on anythig we do, in anyway.
You first -
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Riiight, 'cos that's really going to happen, isn't it, what with paedophilia being illegal.Serguei said:
citydreams was talking about legitimate protest over legitimate points (unemployment, racism, the fact that Sarkozy is a twat), so introducing your "special interest" to the thread isn't really appropriate, is it?
pbman said:
kasheem said:
is the whole community there made of white people? are not the kids of north african immigrants parts of the community?
bristle-krs said:
a good reminder for the like of pbman and his ilk.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
where to said:
I've ascertained from your copious volume of posts on this thread that you're rather prone to making assumptions.
Your post above is another fine example.
I was replying to Serguei's usual "low-grade trolling" where he introduced a somewhat irrelevant matter along the lines of "what next? Will we allow paedophiles to demonstrate?", which I answered, mentioning that paedophilia is (as far as I know) an illegal activity in France (although if you're high enough up the governmental chain you can perhaps get away with it in Belgium), and of a different order to protesting about legitimate concerns such as "unemployment, racism, the fact that Sarkozy is a twat".
Which has very little in common with your assumption as to the meaning of my post, does it?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
spring-peeper said:
Couldn't you cook his head and give him a pattie instead, please?
spring-peeper
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ViolentPanda said:
Actually, I do have a recipe for goats head cheese I was thinking of trying - hmmmm.
Would that be canabolism (sp?)?
of course sergueis post was a distraction. i wasn't refering to it. i was asking who decides what 'legitimate concerns' are? if what you mean is 'i support rioting when i think there is a legitimate case for it', fair enough, but unfortunately back in the thread you were defending citydreams post were he said "I support anyone that feels the need to demonstrate." why are you assuming that every demonstration citydreams happens to agree with is legitimateViolentPanda said:
seems yr the one making assumptions.
oh, and have one of these too:
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