{"id":228,"date":"2005-11-28T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=228"},"modified":"2005-12-19T18:29:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T23:29:14","slug":"riots-in-france-declared-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Riots in France declared over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brussels Journal <a href='http:\/\/www.brusselsjournal.com\/node\/490'>reports<\/a> that the<br \/>\nFrench government has officially declared the banlieu riots over.  The<br \/>\narticle continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPolice figures are at exactly 98 cars torched on Wednesday<br \/>\nnight. This, the police say, is <q>a normal average.<\/q> Consequently<br \/>\nthe 20th consecutive night of violence was declared the last one.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, you read that correctly.  98 car-torchings a night is<br \/>\n&#8220;normal&#8221; in the glorious Fifth Republic in 2005.  Civil order in the<br \/>\nbanlieus has collapsed, but instead of addressing the breakdown the<br \/>\nFrench response is to define it out of existence. (In other breaking<br \/>\nnews, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ol&#8217; George Orwell is<br \/>\nspinning in his grave.)<\/p>\n<p>The American mainstream media, alas, have so much invested in the belief<br \/>\nthat Eurosocialism is what <em>we<\/em> ought to be doing that they&#8217;ll<br \/>\ncertainly take this as an excuse to drop the story.  They&#8217;d rather cover<br \/>\nfictional riots in New Orleans than factual ones in Orleans, if only because<br \/>\nthey can more easily blame George Bush for the former.<\/p>\n<p>The article also observes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;the French state was obliged to borrow money last week to pay the<br \/>\nwages of its civil servants. <q>The money has run out. One must<br \/>\nconcede: this is no example of a strong state.<\/q>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My previous <a href='http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=219'>prediction<\/a><br \/>\nstands.  We&#8217;ve seen only the beginnings of the reckoning for decades<br \/>\nof folly.  I expect to have the last laugh on every single one of the<br \/>\nuseless idiots who insisted on the superiority of &#8220;humane&#8221; European<br \/>\nwelfare-statism over American cowboy capitalism. But I don&#8217;t expect to<br \/>\nenjoy that laugh very much, because the payback is going to be brutal,<br \/>\nbloody, and horrible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brussels Journal reports that the French government has officially declared the banlieu riots over. The article continues: Police figures are at exactly 98 cars torched on Wednesday night. This, the police say, is a normal average. Consequently the 20th consecutive night of violence was declared the last one. Yes, you read that correctly. 98&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=228\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Riots in France declared over<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}