The riots in France will pale to ones here in the US if the mortgage interest deduction is taken away. :)
Robert Gimbel wrote: > >The Romans conquered the barbarians—and the barbarians conquered >Rome. > >So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in >the history of the empires of the West. > >This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in >Holland, the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid, >the Paris riots spreading across France. The perpetrators of these >crimes in the capitals of Europe are the children of immigrants who >were once the colonial subjects of the European empires. > >At this writing, the riots are entering their 12th night and have >spread to Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Toulouse, Dijon, Bordeaux, >Strasbourg, Cannes, Nice. Thousands of cars and buses have been >torched and several nursery schools fire-bombed. One fleeing and >terrified woman was doused with gasoline and set ablaze. > >The rioters are of Arab and African descent, and Muslim. While >almost all are French citizens, they are not part of the French >people. For never have they been assimilated into French culture or >society. And some wish to remain who and what they are. They live >in France but are not French. >The rampage began October 27 when two Arab youths, fleeing what they >mistakenly thought was a police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and >were electrocuted. The two deaths ignited the riots. > >Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy, a candidate to succeed President >Chirac, is said to have infuriated and inflamed the rioters. Before >the rampage began, he promised "war without mercy" on crime in the >teeming suburbs where unemployment runs at 20% and income is 40% >below the national average. He has denounced the rioters as "scum" >and "rabble." > >Like the urban riots in America in the 1960s, which the Kerner >Commission blamed on "white racism," Paris's riots are being blamed >on France's failure to bring Islamic immigrants into the social and >economic mainstream of the nation. Solutions being offered range >from voting rights for non-citizens to affirmative action in hiring >for the children of Third World immigrants. > >To understand why this is unlikely to solve France's crisis, consider >how America succeeded, and often failed, in solving her own racial >crisis. >While, as late as the 1950s, black Americans were not integrated >fully into our economy or society, they had been assimilated into >American culture. > >They worshipped the same God, spoke the same language, had endured >the same Depression and war, listened to the same music and radio, >watched the same TV shows, laughed at the same comedians, went to the >same movies, ate the same foods, read the same books, magazines and >newspapers, and went to schools where, even when they were >segregated, they learned the same history. > >We were divided, but we were also one nation and one people. Black >folks were as American as apple pie, having lived in our common land >longer than almost every other ethnic group save Native Americans. >And America had a history of having assimilated immigrants in the >tens of millions from Europe. > >But no European nation has ever assimilated a large body of immigrant >peoples, let alone people of color. Moreover, the African and >Islamic peoples pouring into Europe—there are 20 million there now— >are, unlike black Americans, strangers in a new land, and millions >wish to remain proud Algerians, Muslims, Moroccans. > >These newcomers worship a different God and practice a faith >historically hostile to Christianity, a traditionalist faith that is >rising again and recoils violently from a secular culture saturated >in sex. > >Severed from the civilization and cultures of their parents, these >Arab and Muslim youth may hold French citizenship and carry French >passports, but they are no more French than Americans who live in >Paris are French. Searching for a community to which they can truly >belong, they gravitate to mosques where the imams, many themselves >immigrants, teach and preach that the West is not their true home, >but a civilization alien to their values and historically hostile to >their nations and Islam. > >The soaring Muslim population is a Fifth Column inside Europe. > >Nevertheless, their numbers must grow. For not only do they have a >higher birth rate than the native-born Europeans, no European nation, >save Moslem Albania, has a birth rate (2.1 births per woman) that >will enable it to endure for many more generations. The West is >aging, shrinking, and dying. > >Yet, to keep Europe's economy growing and taxes coming in to fund the >health and pension programs of Europe's rising numbers of retired and >elderly, Europe needs scores of millions of new workers. And Europe >can only find them in the Third World. > >Nor should Americans take comfort in France's distress. By 2050, >there will be 100 million Hispanics in the United States, half of >them of Mexican ancestry, heavily concentrated in a Southwest most >Mexicans still believe by right belongs to them. > >Colonization of the mother countries by subject peoples is the last >chapter in the history of empires—and the next chapter in the history >of the West—that is now coming to a close. > >Paris Burning: How Empires End >by Patrick J. Buchanan >Posted Nov 7, 2005 > > > > > > > > >To subscribe, send a message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Or go to: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ >and click 'Join This Group!' >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. 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