War in France

"genuine urban guerrillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons" were among the rioters.

More incredible than the story of urban warfare is the apolgist tone of the media, "angry Arab" immigrants. And, of ocurse, no mention Islam.

Scores of police hurt in Paris riots

Rampaging youths rioted for a second night in Paris' suburbs, firing at officers and ramming burning cars into buildings. At least 80 officers were injured, a senior police union official said Tuesday.

The overnight violence was more intense than during the three weeks of rioting in 2005, said the official, Patrice Ribeiro. He said "genuine urban guerrillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons" were among the rioters.

On Monday night, youths were seen firing buckshot at police and reporters. About 30 of 82 injured officers were hit by buckshot, Ribeiro told The Associated Press. Rioters also hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at police, authorities said.

"Youths" media speak for Muslims."

Police made six arrests, authorities said.

Six? Shooting at cops? That's a capital punishment crime.

Youths, many of them Arab and black children of immigrants, again appeared to be lashing out at police and other targets seen to represent a French establishment they feel has left them behind.

Oh puhleeeeeeeze.

"Police officers were targeted with hunting weapons; a certain number of them were wounded by lead shot," said Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie. "This is totally unacceptable," she said, adding there were six serious injuries, "people who notably were struck in the face and close to the eyes."

Unacceptable? That's way harsh.

The use of firearms added a dangerous new dimension to the rioting. Firearms are widespread in France, and police generally carry guns. Such weapons, though, were rarely used in the 2005 riots that spread to poor housing projects nationwide.

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Police face "a situation that is far worse than that of 2005," said Ribeiro, national secretary of the Synergie police union. "Our colleagues will not allow themselves to be fired upon indefinitely without responding," he warned on RTL radio.

An inside view of a damaged nursery school that was vandalized and set on fire in Villiers-le-Bel, a northern Paris suburb, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007. Rioting in the tough suburbs of northern Paris took a dramatic and potentially deadly new turn

Classroom ina a public school

Smoke billows as books still burn in a damaged public library that was vandalized and set on fire

How dare they destroy one human thought, this is base and savage

                  A shot out window of the Louis Jouvet local library is seen after being destroyed

A youth  is detained by riot police in the suburb of Villiers-le-Bel Youth

There's that damn word. Smiling happy people.

UPDATE: PARIS'S THIRD ANNUAL INTIFADA FESTIVAL Brussels Journal

UPDATE: Sophie : wrote me, "more than one hundred policemen wounded!!! but this is only the visible part of what French people live everyday."

French police under seige

But Omar Sehhouli, brother of one of the victims, told AFP the rioting "was not violence but an expression of rage." More here.

UPDATE: Day three ...... VIDEO here

Youths rampaged for a third night in the tough suburbs north of Paris and violence spread to a southern city late Tuesday as police struggled to contain rioters who have burned cars and buildings and — in an ominous turn — shot at officers.

 

Comments

[Leapofaith]

Let me help you out a bit here France. It is called shot them just like you would a rabid dog. Wake up people --- you have been here before.

[Thomas Carney]

Sarkozy better call it like it is.... and the government-controlled French "pseudo-press" needs to tell the truth: it's not "youth" or "disaffected people". It's Muslims who are rioting.

President Sarkozy, you'd better get a big bottle of testicular fortitude, dude.

[john jay]

jane:
re: governments

if you look to the "organic" documents of our system of constitutional government, such as are recongnized in supreme court holdings and the united states code annotated, to include the declartion of independence, the articles of confederation which formed the first national govt., and the "federalist papers" which proselytized the second national government, you will find an amazing concept.

it is that powers flow from the people to the government, and that all powers to govern are delegated or ceded by the people to those who are governed. that rights inhering in the people precede the formation of government, are retained by the people, and do not depend upon nor are they derived from government.

chief among those rights are self preservation and self defense. these rights may be asserted by the people independent of and against an oppressive government.

our founding fathers were educated men, some formally, some tutored, some self taught. all, as educated men, were intimately associated with the writings of locke, hobbes, rousseaua, and perhaps more importantly than generally recognized with blackstone, as many of them were lawyers and had read blackstone's commentaries on the laws of england.

within the writings of these gentlemen, and certainly, these writings are as much of our heritage as the magna carta, is the universal understanding that when the sovereign fails to protect its subjects, the subjects are free to turn from the sovereign, and are free to take their own affairs into their own hands. implicit in all of the writings referred to above, is the recognition of the right of self defense, not dependent upon government. (see the 2nd amendment.) implicit in all the writings referred to above, is the right of the people to rebellion against an oppressive sovereign. (see teh 1st and 2nd amendments.) implicit in all the writings referred to above, is the right of the people to organize and protect themselves free and independent of the sovereign, should the sovereign fail in those particulars.

if you think these propositions silly, i would refer you to the state constitutions as adopted by the first 13 states of the union, in which those documents specifically mention the right of the people to rebel against tyrannical rule. you can look it up. there is a reason why one state, new hampshire(?), had "live free or die" emblazened on its license plates for years. laughing.

we have the right as citizens who enjoy rights and freedoms existing free and independent of government to protect ourselves.

these rights are recognized in our "organic" documents, including in the constitution and the bill of rights, (i would ask each of you, when was the last time you read the 10th amendment to the constitution?), and these rights were won an secured by blood.

if our government will not protect us, we should become shed of it.

we have that right. we should exercise it, if required, to protect ourselves, our heritage, our politics, our civilization.

john jay

[clyde]

If France is lucky, the police will tire of being targets and begin returning fire-accurately-thus preventing many "youths" from becoming "aged".

[Josef K]

#1. Where is the concern for the police?

#2. When the hell is the French military going to go in there and bomb & kick and kill some Islamofacist tail?

#3. Doesn't this remind you all of WWII's beginnings?!?

Damn, G*d help civilization. Bush has gone moral equivalent. France is afire again. Bolton is semi-retired. The leftards are in charge. When are the adults (e.g. Bolton, Glick, Geller, Giuliani, Blair) going to take back the reigns of power?

[Jane]

There is a lot of concern for the police. A Union leader has come out and said that they will not tolerate this much longer and will shoot back. As John Jay wisely advised me when I suggested the military a couple of days ago - it's half Muslim. Yes it does remind me of the prelude to World War II. I agree with your list of leaders - however, please take Blair off the list - he has destroyed the UK, deliberately worked to annihilate the English people and their culture and is a rabid Marxist. With friends like him who needs enemies.

[Surak]

Apropos of the Annapolis farce - as Ms. Geller would say - "Give 'em a state!"

[Josef K]

Jane;

I respectfully couldn't disagree more that Tony Blair has "destroyed the UK", "deliberately worked to annihilate the English people and their culture and is a rabid Marxist". Having read many books and blogs about this swashbuckling hero, I see him as the guy who reignited a sense of British pride, armored up Britain and kept Britain's tough guy image intact and reformed public services. As a person with much British blood (but not citizenship), I am very proud this man personifies the British of today.

That said - to all - a heroic British lion like Tony Blair who is willing to do whatever it takes to stop this terrorism... like take away the casus belli #1 of these goons (although I disagree somewhat w/ the means) or die trying makes me proud of my British ancestry. That man Blair has a bulls-eye painted on him when he could just retire and because Tony Blair's got the guts to start the Palestinian economy and restart the peace process, he's going to give these people an alternative to hate. About bloody time.

Annapolis to me isn't the best way and dividing Jerusalem to me isn't kosher, but maybe we'll reclaim some territory and again, put forward an alternative to hate (and Hamas and arguably Fatah) in front of our enemies. The best victory is the one that ends the war, right?

[JewishOdysseus]

Are we really shocked by [think]...MUSLIMS...BURNING...LIBRARIES? Surely the big news story wd be if these Islamic goons left a single biblioteque standing...

I think Sarkozy has been a little slow because he didn't want to appear trigger-happy. But he is no Chirac, and I am sure the streets will be cleaned soon:

"Police face "a situation that is far worse than that of 2005," said Ribeiro, national secretary of the Synergie police union. "Our colleagues will not allow themselves to be fired upon indefinitely without responding," he warned on RTL radio."