Monday, November 07, 2005

Liberté, égalité, fraternité..?



It's Monday night. In the US that means football. Lately, in France, it means another nite of riots. If they riot tonight, this will be the twelfth. Burning cars, burning storefronts, youths running through smoked choked streets, confused bureaucrats and more Offical French nonsense. Paris would be wise to note a page from Abraham Lincoln's playbook, (1858) when he noted that "a house divided against itself can not stand.."
These 'freedom fighters" are mad about something. It would appear that in France there is more "going on" than the usual.. pastis, cigarettes, Le Monde and Maurice Chevalier.

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