The French Revolution 2005

In France right now there are riots, the rioters are young, in some cases as young as 12, second and third generation "immigrants" (one could argue there are no such thing as a second generation immigrant, at least in my mind but apparently not for the papers and politicians). They are rioting against the French society from which they say they feel secluded, they live in the suburbs of Paris in enclaves or some would say ghettos outside the French society.

In my opinion these people are shut out of the French society, 20-30 years ago the French goverment started to neglect these areas that became full of Algerian and Tunisian refugees and immigrants, the French acted like the ostrich and pretended that if they ignored these immigrants they would simply vanish, or at least go away. Well they didn't, now their grandchildren and their greatgrandchildren are out on the streets burning up their own neighbourhoods. That the bulk of the rioters are hardened criminals discontent at the French Interior minister Sarkozy's decision to "clean up these areas with a highpowered hose" can be made clear, but there is also a civil discourse in action, the criminals and their young hangarounds surely act as gasoline on a fire, but the real fire was started 30 years ago with the French ignoring what would erupt today with two French youths hiding from the police in a generator plant and getting to close to the generators.

I am not excusing the criminals that are shooting at the police, burning cars and also yesterday killed an innocent older man, they are scum, however the broader picture is that these people feel left behind and in order for them to come back in we need to restructure society. If we look to the US we can see that there is such a thing as succesful integration of immigrants into society, how then can we do that?

A first step would be to let immigrants work during the period when their case is being judged, another to relinquish the passivisnig grants all people get and the third is to deregulate the workmarket to allow for a more flexible solution.
I believe these steps will be necessary sooner or later and we can expect to see many clashes before the goverments of Europe realise that the money has run out and time is catching up.

Finishing up I predict that when all this is over Sarkozy will be without work, he keeps putting his foot in his mouth and the French, as an opposite to the Swedes actually do political decapitation after messy affairs, pun intended.

Sincerely
Mr Silence Dogood