They are supposed to be living in poverty and misery, but in some of the pictures of the 'slums', I can't help but notice the satellite dishes that a lot of them can somehow afford.
France should bring in the army and show no mercy.
This may be partially about blaming others for your lifestyle, but it's mainly just street gangs with nothing better to do with their lives being prodded on by drug pushers and a few extremists. I even heard in one source that a few gangs of white trash were joining in too, and I somehow doubt that they're protesting racism and inequality
. It's just a time for losers who want to destroy other people's property to have some 'fun'.
And although only one person has been killed (if you don't count the break-and-enter criminals who were stupid enough to electrocute themselves to death in the first place), he was a poor old man trying to put out a fire in a garbage can before it caught his home on fire. And a 13 months old baby was taken to hospital with head injuries after being attacked with rocks
. And a handicapped woman was doused with gasoline and set on fire
. AND a team of paramedics trying to rescue a sick woman were attacked before their ambulance was destroyed
. This isn't "effecting social change' - what can they possibly hope to accomplish through this. If anything, it could seriously undermine liberal attitudes towards them, but that's for history to determine
. No one I know has a shred of pity towards them - the 'outrageous' comments by that French conservative who called them "rabble" are nothing compared to what I have heard personally.
I am not a racist, not at all. People should be allowed to practice their own beliefs in our society (as long as they do not contradict our laws), but should not be forcing them down the throats of others.
This post is not intended to offend anyone, except maybe the Paris rioters themselves if they are reading :hmm:.