Grieve for France, but learn too. You can't
banish a large, alienated immigrant population to pools of poverty and
deprivation in poisonous banlieux without storing up trouble. In the US it's
riots, in France it's killer kids inculcated into a culture of petty crime,
drugs and sex who think (despite all appearances to the contrary) that they're
religious saints defending a God they are, in fact, defaming.
The worst result would be to widen and deepen
the gulf between the two nations by creating fear and hatred of the immigrants
they've alienated in the first place. Be warned. Free markets and ghettos make
martyrs when they fail.
But whatever happens, it's no longer 'douce
France, cher pays de mon enfance'.
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Don't let this become an excuse for yet more powers
for the security services, yet more restrictive legislation and yet more armed
police on the streets. It isn't. It's a reason for more competence and care. People
on watch lists weren't watched. No flyers were allowed to fly and no-one saw
the indoctrination of credulous criminals. What's the use of more powers if the
existing ones are used so incompetently? After the event they pieced everything
together. Within minutes they'd brought out all the connections, but several
deaths too late.
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Observe the greater number – and the smaller circulation – of French newspapers and the greater frequency of their editions. Observe
too the greater circulation of intelligent news mags (Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Point, L’Express and, particularly,
the harsh satire mags like Le Canard
(circulation 600,000) and Charlie Hebdo
(60,000).
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