This is not about anarchists, political repression, a racist state or lack of economic oppurtunities. Its about a large number of spoiled youths for whom noone - not their parents, not society and certainly not the state - has managed to instill any sense of discipline or respect for anything at all; something that is aided and abetted by society and especially the media generally absolving the individual of responsibility for their own actions. Just look at how this thing started - I mean, how on earth were the Police meant to stop someone from running into a power substation when they cant catch them in the first place?
Of course, these youths exist to greater or lesser degrees everywhere; but the problem in France is you have a long history of "liberal" ideas in the justice, especially youth justice, system combined with immigration dumping policies of the sort that have provoked lesser disturbances over here in the UK. Now Sarkozy has come along, speaking a language that anyone who has even an ounce of common sense realises is correct, and the spoilt youth dont like it and are kicking off - beating old men to death, setting disabled women and bus passengers on fire, stoning children, burning down schools, churches and nurseries, attacking firemen and shooting at police officers. Having seen that the first fatality has just been reported - a 61 year old man having been beaten to death for the heinous offence of stopping his bin being set alight by a mob of youths - half of me thinks that you lot may have been right all along.
