More "Peace" and "Love" Riots, Dalrymple on "The Zone" -&- Iran

Sarkozy: Violence in French Suburbs is a Daily Fact of Life Oct. 31, 05, LGF via Newsbeat1


Comment most apropos, considering our mainstream media:

If the situation gets any worse it might wind up in the newspapers. Luigi 10/31/2005 08:23PM PST

Youths riot in Paris Suburb AFP, Nov. 1, 05 via Newsbeat1.



Do not miss reading this.

Left unsaid is which youths -- being politically correct, I suppose. Read the following for an idea of the situation. Theodore Dalrymple is one of my favourite essayists.

The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris
Theodore Dalrymple, Autumn, 2002, City Journal

Dalrymple lives in France; he is a literate, acutely observant, highly-educated and wide-ranging essayist who wrote for the Spectator; whether he still does, in retirement, I do not know.

[. . . . ] The state, while concerning itself with the details of their housing, their education, their medical care, and the payment of subsidies for them to do nothing, abrogates its responsibility completely in the one area in which the state’s responsibility is absolutely inalienable: law and order. In order to placate, or at least not to inflame, disaffected youth, the ministry of the interior has instructed the police to tread softly (that is to say, virtually not at all, except by occasional raiding parties when inaction is impossible) in the more than 800 zones sensibles—sensitive areas—that surround French cities and that are known collectively as la Zone.

But human society, like nature, abhors a vacuum, and so authority of a kind, with its own set of values, occupies the space where law and order should be—the authority and brutal values of psychopathic criminals and drug dealers. The absence of a real economy and of law means, in practice, an economy and an informal legal system based on theft and drug-trafficking. [. . . . ]

Fourth Night of Muslim Riots in Paris -- and here


Iran's Final Solution Plan by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, November 1, 2005

"Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon [i.e., Israel]. We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region."

No, those are not the words of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking last week. Rather, that was Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Republic of Iran's supreme leader, in December 2000.

In other words, Ahmadinejad's call for the destruction of Israel was nothing new but conforms to a well-established pattern of regime rhetoric and ambition. [. . . . ]

Why, some asked, did the mere reiteration of long-standing policy prompt an avalanche of outraged foreign reactions? [. . . . ]

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