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Nov 10, 2005 15:06


If you've been keeping up with current events, you no doubt have heard that France is in quite a state of turmoil, with thousands of people rioting, burning cars, and generally being unruly in the streets of a lot of places in France, but especially in and around The Paris region, Strasborg, Lille, Nice, Marseille, Rouen, Toulouse, Amiens, Dijon ( Read more... )

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bearie_pie November 12 2005, 22:27:55 UTC
man, no one has commented.
that we are the future thing got me to comment, you guilted me. of course guilt is a good source of motivation.
i dont know much about this story but i've been thinking a lot about revolution. im naturally a pacifist, but i think that sometimes revolts are the only way to be heard. that doesnt neccesarily mean they're good, or people and things should be hurt. the "founding fathers" of the US talked about the fact the they were revolted against Britain, but that a revolution would be neccesary every once in a while to keep things on track. interesting, but pretty off topic towards the revolts in France.
i think its brave of them, but maybe also ignorant, effective or not. i dont know enough about it. thanks for posting paul

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Hola Pablo Es Miguel anonymous November 14 2005, 04:26:25 UTC
I think it is fair to say that these riots can be compared to the riots that occered in LOs Angeles in 1992. Although it wasnt the same action that sparked the riots they are similar. IT takes an incident and people get pissed. It then grows out of hand. Now the deaths in France were accidenttal and to =no means to what happened to Rodney king But that was the spark that ignited the flame. Obiosly in France it has grown much larger then anythign anyone could have expected. I do nott side with ither side in France but ido think the riots have gooten out of control. But who am i to say? I thibnk that i couldnt form an opinion unless i was there myself. All in all its still a tradgidy but somethign liek this was bound to happen. We will seee how everything wworks out.

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