The amount of gloss put on this picture has been pretty disgusting. If one were to believe many main stream media reports, you might think this was just a bunch of poor kids rioting for jobs and that increased police effort has cooled things down. Neither is true! The rioters are primarily Islamic Radicals that had already distanced themselves from the rest of French society. The poor kids that want jobs are the ones who live in fear of these radicals! They had planned this attack on France for a very long time! Parts of France were already considered “no go” zones by police. Since Islamic Radicals had already taken them over and forced people in those areas to live by their rules, rather than governing French law. This violence is just the next phase in those efforts! And the increased police effort has not cooled things down. Its still as violent as ever, if not more so! An entire country is being over-run and this is being treated like some small event! It has gotten so bad that French authorities have resorted to trying to protect monuments, because they know it would look really bad in the eyes of the world if something like the Eiffel Tower was burning! And the Radicals have made it known that they intend to spread violence to the major cities!

Edward Morrissey sums up much of the media sugar coating and offers analysis of how things got to this point.

Captain Ed points out that 500 cars were burned the night before last and that was with the increased police presence! Before midnight last night (French time) 130 cars were burned!

One article does point out that French President Jacques Chirac is losing a grip on things.

I don’t think the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (an Algerian Islamist organization) was thinking of Muslims wanting jobs in France, when they said:

It’s not jobs that they want! They want control!!!

Here is what the French did wrong!
In their socialist society that already gives housing, money and free health care! The mistake made by the French was not their inability to give everyone job. Their mistake was in giving up the rule of law in many areas! So long as they have a socialist economy, they will always have high unemployment. Plenty of socialist nations have high unemployment. And plenty of them have discrimination! But what other socialist and even communist nations do not do is cede control of territories to radicals! For them to change to capitalism would offer more opportunity to everyone in France, but that won’t change who controls the “no go” areas! France has to be strong on maintaining order, not just when a riot flairs up, but all of the time!

The latest reports indicate that Saturday night (last night) was less violent than Friday night. However, the violence is spreading and for the first time erupted in the heart of a major French city. This is not the first time things appeared to be less violent one night, before getting much worse the next! This is far from over and far from getting any better.

Related post: Jean-Marie Le Pen is right!