DeVillepin on Paris Riots: "I am not Sure we can Call them Riots"

       

        French PM: No riots, just 'social unrest' |

CNN and Amanpour speaks to DeVillepin (perfect couple eh?) 10,000 cars burned, 150 cops hurt, 100 public buildings damaged

"I am not sure we can call them riots" DeVillepin "Nobody died" "You can not compare this kind of social unrest with riots. There were no guns in the streets. This was a very special movement"  "There is no ethinic and no religious basis of this movement". "These people want to be 100% French"

I swear I am not making this up....................quoting verbatim. Watch the video. I want his drugs ! - Atlas

Keith B in Irvine writes me;

  I am wondering if DeV recalls the restless French youths who doused the crippled women in flammable liquid before torching the bus she was on?  Surely they are just looking for more social acceptance and better job opportunities - that's the first thing that crosses my mind when I want a better job - let me go burn a crippled person.

We should open immigration to all French Jews - as they are clearly in danger in France.  Europe will not survive - they will be blamed.  We need them here.

In the end America will live up to Churchill's prescription - after exhausting every alternative... 

Good man Keith

             

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French PM: No riots, just 'social unrest' | Social unrest? Social unrest? De Villepin interview: Full text  Hat tip: Steven D

Oriana Fallaci said it precisely last night here;

The Truth Inspires Fear".

"Europe overflows with the witch hunts.... hits any one going against Islam. It overflows the with  New Inquisition. Trying to muzzle. Oh yes, like your Ward Churchills, your Noam Chomskys, your Louis Farrakhans and your Michael Moore's etc. TRAITORS! against which all antidotes seem to fail. Combined Neo nazi islamo fascism"

The Deaf remain the deaf, the blind remain the blind and both of them end up with ............brand of shame.
Fallaci:"The real enemy is Islam and the most catastrophic threat is immigration not terror. It is immigration. And they do not integrate in Europe. Maybe in the USA but not in Europe. Those riots in France are a result of that very thing". The Chinese, Vietnamese etc immigrants are not rioting and tearing down the very fabric of society.

THE COURRIERS NAKED APE John Rosenthal
hat tip Solomonia.com

The Courrier International is a weekly compilation of articles from the international press brought into French and published by the Groupe Le Monde, best known for its flagship daily. Here is the charming depiction of George W. Bush that graces the cover of the current edition of the Courrier.

Apart from the conspicuous fact that Bush's body is half eaten away, note especially the simian posture with the knuckles dragging on the ground. Among the Parisian intellectuals who constitute the principal market for the Courrier, as they do for Le Monde, such a representation of the American President is apparently supposed to be a mark of sophistication. The title to the left of the image reads "Bush laid bare" - a pronouncement that the cartoonist delicately interprets as having his flesh eaten away to the bone - and the subtitle reads: "Why Americans No Longer Have Confidence in Him". On the inside [link in French], this becomes "Why the Americans reject their President" and under the heading "The End of a Deception", the editors explain further: "numerous lies, political setbacks: the failings of the government is finally becoming apparent to the majority of Americans".

Have you seen Chesler's piece on FrontPagemag? France’s Intifada By Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com

In 1973, the French novelist Jean Raspail artfully predicted in the form of fiction the very real Palestinian-style intifada that now rages on the west bank of Europe: France. Ten years after the book's publication, Raspail described the "vision" he had, portrayed in the book, which lasted for ten feverish months:

They were there! A million poor wretches, armed only with their weakness and their numbers, overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving brown and black children, ready to disembark on our soil, the vanguard of the multititudes pressing hard against every part of the tired and overfed West. I literally saw them, saw the major problem they presented, a problem absolutely insoluble by our present moral standards. To let them in would destroy us. To reject them would destroy them.

Consider the plot. An all-powerful, multi-culturalist intelligentsia, having taught France that it must atone for its racist crimes, swiftly joins compassionate French Christians in ecstatically welcoming the mass invasion that brutally destroys France. The solicitude of white Frenchmen—the priests, intellectuals, student activists, and prostitutes who wish to embrace and assist the implacably angry new arrivals—is repaid by death. And terror: The immigrants loot everything in sight. They murder for new apartments. France is run into the ground. Raw and relentless, the novel is as brilliant as Orwell’s 1984.

Raspail dares to ask the hard questions: Are we our brothers' keepers? Must the West share all its resources with a barbarous East—even if it means our own demise?

Comments

[Thomas Carney]

Social unrest?? I know why he's saying that. Villepin is playing down the riots (yes, Lefties they were [and still are] riots) for the tourist $$$$.

Tourist money is one of the biggest moneymakers in France, especially in Paris. I'll bet I could get a heck of a price on a tour package in Paris right now.

[msdl5]

In DeVillepin's nirvana, no one would ever 'riot' against their system, way of life and culture. Instead, people were angry and simply trying to get into the wonderful world of French life. They were fighting to be be included, not destroy.

What he forgets to associate is that his wonderful culture, government and way of life is INTENTIONALLY exclusionary. Only those chosen are allowed into the inner circle to play with them. The elites live in the center of a class structure of concentric circles. Some groups, families or monies are in circles close to the center. As their elite society works its way from the center, so does one's value in their world.

All other groups and races are on the outside rings and are either pack mules or pawns to make the group in the center feel even more elite. Every now and then they let some play jester to their snobbery.

[Thomas Carney]

Atlas wrote: "I want his drugs !"

No, I'm afraid you won't want those drugs. What he's taking is a LIBERAL dose of Leftist philosopy, coupled with a mighty amount of political correctness. You take that, Pamela, and you will lose all connection with reality.

Now that is a tragedy I'd never want to see.

[Thomas Carney]

msdl5: you put into words what I've known about the northern French. I've worked in Bordeaux eight times in the last 2 1/2 years and I've found the people in southern France to have their heads screwed on fairly straight..... but in the northern part... UGH.

I like your comment about French society being intentionally exclusionary. You're right about that.

[moonbat monitor]

And the mayhem after the King verdict wasn't a riot either. It was people just venting, right?

[Carine]

I may be French and used to such lies from our socialist rulers, I'm still stunned by this interview.

At least two persons died as a result of the riots. A woman was torched alive, as you reminded.

There were guns in the streets. Definitely.

And what is Villepin offering: more of the public buildings and youth-oriented structures that have been burnt, more money, more appeasement, more lies.

Like little kids afraid that there might be monsters under their beds, the French simply repeat that this is not the reality and they're comforted in the belief that the monsters do not exist. That's how they make them go away. Except that the monsters are a reality here.

The People's Republic of France will continue to deny, to send the message that burning thousands of cars will get the rioters more attention and money. And will finally sink.

But you know, they'll always have America to blame, anyway. Sad but true, I'm afraid.

I love your blog, by the way :)

[I Want to NOT]

This may be a turning point where our society has to choose between France and our European "heritage" or the path of freedom and self determination. Europe is the birthplace of our culture, but honestly we have less in common with them with each act of appeasement they commit to assuage their guilt and please the Paristinians.

France will not be able to save itself. Will we have the capacity to save them? Will we have the desire?

[tim jansing]

Yes, I remember the crippled lady on the bus. There was also a young lady Chahrazad who was burnt by a spurned lover and was placed in a medicaly induced coma to spare her the agony of burns over 60% of her body. I guess the bastard who did this couldn't find any acid to dash in her face like in Bangaladesh. Are these two ladies dead? God rest their souls.

I also recall an older man was beaten to death by the mildly agitated little darlings (sadistic savages). It's like WW2 all over again. Absolutely sickening.

Who does this joker think he's fooling?

[C Max]

Hey, it's all because of that "shitty little country" Israel that these Algerians, Morrocans, Egyptians, Turks and the rest are being shunned.

In all seriousness, leave it to the French (even if they are just copying the Turks) to try to fight fascism with fashion -- a ban on headscarves.

Short of wearing giant ceremonial daggers or a mask for your driver's license photo, Americans would think the idea of the dress code as a measure of "secularism" absurd.

Ahhh, but you see: that silly headscarf CLASHES with your school uniform.

[C Max]

.... Make that most Americans, except the puny minority who want to ban the display of anything they deem to be a religious symbol in certain places.

[crazy politico]

If those weren't riots, I'd hate to see what a riot looks like.