yeah CNN should be ashamed to show such a map .....
anyways nothing excuse the behavior of these people ....to me
i've been told this quote " violence is the weapon of the weaks"....

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Originally posted by h0tsweetbabyd0l yeah CNN should be ashamed to show such a map .....

Is it CNN's fault or Google's? Or both? But yeah--a pretty pathetic map either way.

Edit: I do agree. CNN should check the validity of everything they put on TV. They seem to be going for the "It's on the Internet so it's correct" method.

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Originally posted by Shakka CNN should check the validity of everything they put on TV. They seem to be going for the "It's on the Internet so it's correct" method.

CNN is the TV equivalent of American food. Bland, artificial, boring.

lol at the map Strasbourg seems to be all the way in Slovenia. Anyway...

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Originally posted by HardTranceProd When you hear "articulate" and "rational" comments from older youths, it's hard to understand the rage and desperation of the majority. But when you hear strongly worded anger like "We hate France. We've had it up to here. Look around you. This place is shit. It's a dump. There's nothing for us here" - then you begin to get a glimpse of the real outrage.

Yeah but outrage at what exactly? Just look at the people who are outraging. 3 are known criminals, 2 are "sort of" at school, whatever that means, and 1 is recieving welfare. What the hell are they complaining about? Especially the welfare guy?? He's getting money from the state for doing absolutely nothing except mugging people and selling drugs it seems, and he's still not happy! The only thing that can be done in such neighbourhoods is to increase the police patrols and get the scum off the streets, which seems to be exactly what Sarkozy is doing.

As for the police opressing them and taking them into stations for minor reasons, well, when you have a population whose 50% seems to have a criminal record (judging from the 3/6 ratio of the interviewing rioters) you can't really act the same as if you're patrolling somewhere in North Dakota. There's a big chance that the guy you bring in is guilty for something, it's just a matter of fidning out what.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Yeah but outrage at what exactly?

It's questions like yours that any sane person would ask if he were listening to NPR and the bland American networks.

If life was pretty grim, though liveable, I'd also have to ask: Outrage at what, exactly?

The answer to your question is that there's a lot, apparently, to be outraged about, otherwise the situation would be nowhere as heated as it is now.

And you might glimpse the answers by reading articles that are frank, uncensored, and preferably foreign.

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Originally posted by HardTranceProd It's questions like yours that any sane person would ask if he were listening to NPR and the bland American networks. If life was pretty grim, though liveable, I'd also have to ask: Outrage at what, exactly? The answer to your question is that there's a lot, apparently, to be outraged about, otherwise the situation would be nowhere as heated as it is now. And you might glimpse the answers by reading articles that are frank, uncensored, and preferably foreign.

Yeah well except that I don't live in the US and therefore get most of my news from those foreign and uncensored networks.

People don't always outrage at something because they are right. Sometimes they outrage because they just think they're right.

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z It's very obvious why the riots occured after reading this article

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Ummmmm, I dont know what to say. Perhaps you have researched more sources, kept up on the issue through multiple avenues of information, and this one article has triggered the epiphany that you put in this statement.
Because I really hope you didnt just categorize the whole situation in France and make up your mind after reading one article posted on the internet. I really hope so.

Also I dont care how you reply to this because only you know whether or not you took this article as the basis for your judgements and little or nothing else.

edit: After reading the other Riots in France thread it would appear that you did not base everything you think about France on this one article, but intead of retracting my statement please word phrases like the one I quoted better next time. Statements like that throw up so many red flags that its hard to move on sometimes.

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Originally posted by MisterOpus1 While I do understand that the situation in France is a bit more complicated and involves certain economic hardships and open-door immigrant policies, these kids must have to realize that their destructive behavior does them and the rest of their country much more harm than good in getting their point across.

Isn't this the general pattern though?

Doesn't a "successful" Islamic terrorist make life more difficult for all the law abiding muslims than it does for the rest of us?

Do Islamic "insurgents" in Iraq make life more difficult for the people of Iraq or for american soldiers?

Jyhad isn't a war fought by muslims agains the west. Jyhad is a war fought by muslims against themselves. Just so happens that attacking the west is the most efficient way of doing it...

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Originally posted by Synthesia There is NO justification for the riots whatsoever, end of story.

Exactly!

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Originally posted by jonSun Exactly!

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