I think France may very well implode.

BDx13 - 4-7-2006 at 10:37 AM

between this new law regarding young working people and that bit with the muslims recently, there sure is a lot of unrest in this country.

Motorist Drives Through Crowd in Paris
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060407/ap_on_re_eu/france_job_p...

PARIS - A motorist drove through a crowd of students protesting the government's new youth jobs law Friday near the Sorbonne University, injuring seven people.

Furious demonstrators overturned the car and tried to kick its windows out, while police in riot gear and helmets worked to disperse the crowd.

The incident came after high school students spent the afternoon disrupting traffic outside the Sorbonne by picnicking on a busy boulevard. They were heading away when a frustrated motorist tried to burst through the crowd.

Several dozen youths turned the car over and unsuccessfully attempted to drag the driver out before police and onlookers intervened.

Firefighters said seven people suffered light injuries.

French students have been protesting for weeks over a new law that will make it easier for companies to hire and fire people under age 26. While most demonstrations have been peaceful, some have seen violence from a radical fringe.

Voodoobillyman - 4-7-2006 at 11:15 AM

Fuck the French.

clevohardcore - 4-7-2006 at 11:15 AM

I know. And the dirty punk rockers are making it even worse. France is getting weak.

gavin - 4-7-2006 at 01:05 PM

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Originally posted by Voodoobillyman
Fuck the French.

clevohardcore - 4-7-2006 at 01:12 PM

Only thing good about the French is the toast and they sold us some of America for a good price.

I know the toast is not from France it is a joke.

upyerbum - 4-7-2006 at 01:14 PM

Lady Liberty's French.

gavin - 4-7-2006 at 01:49 PM

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Originally posted by upyerbum
Lady Liberty's French.

yeah well one gift doesnt make up for it

moron - 4-7-2006 at 01:57 PM

There's the one car I see about a block away from my house that has a "BOYCOTT FRANCE" sticker in the window and american flags everywhere. I just have to laugh. It's kinda like the whole "freedom fries" thing. Just completely ridiculous.

gavin - 4-7-2006 at 02:03 PM

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Originally posted by moron
There's the one car I see about a block away from my house that has a "BOYCOTT FRANCE" sticker in the window and american flags everywhere. I just have to laugh. It's kinda like the whole "freedom fries" thing. Just completely ridiculous.

i dont think so
i would support a boycott of france anyday

brooklyn - 4-7-2006 at 02:10 PM

as anybody been in France, or just views based on media or so?

gavin - 4-7-2006 at 02:24 PM

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Originally posted by brooklyn
as anybody been in France, or just views based on media or so?

i would not go to france

Voodoobillyman - 4-7-2006 at 02:27 PM

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Originally posted by MrBadVibes

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Originally posted by brooklyn
as anybody been in France, or just views based on media or so?

i would not go to france

I've been to marsailles (sp?) ...............Fuck the French

Voodoobillyman - 4-7-2006 at 02:29 PM

If there ever happens to be another war where they look to the US to bail them out of trouble again, I will become a concientious objector and refuse to fight for the liberation of their country.

gavin - 4-7-2006 at 02:30 PM

i wanna go to war with france
france is the evil empire
of frog eaters

DAK - 4-7-2006 at 03:30 PM

Fuck the French. Indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DaveMoral - 4-7-2006 at 09:22 PM

I don't care about the French one way or the other... all joking aside, everyone, even snooty French assholes deserve to live free.... except French Canadians.

clevohardcore - 4-7-2006 at 10:02 PM

Ya the French Canadians are pretty bad,. Fucking rude fucker fucks

BDx13 - 4-7-2006 at 10:46 PM

i spent about a week in france in 98, and my wife lived there for a year, but i don't really have an opinion of them one way or the other. as a fat guy, i appreciate the food, but that's about it.

clevohardcore - 4-7-2006 at 11:12 PM

I like the wine. and a nice French roast coffee from STARBUCKS

moforn - 4-8-2006 at 07:07 AM

If you think the Fench from France are annoying, try shacking up with an Acadian.

On the original topic, this obviously seems to have alot more to do with an underlying anger than an objection to any one law/policy. It's hard to get decent coverage of the actual protests/riots but from what I can see they don't seem to be particulary focused against any target. The anger might be real and arguably legitimate but the powers that be will never feel the brunt of it, the disposessed will, look at Detroit 40 years later.
I also have to think that of all the countries in the world the French don't have all that much to riot in the streets about- it's not like their government is engaging in warrantless wiretapping of it's citizens, flagrantly violating the Geneva convention, holding people captive for years without the right to due process (habeus corpus, schmabeus corpus), drawing the condemnation of the united nations, kidnapping citizens of sovereign countries such as Canada and flying them to be tortured oversees, sending it's own soldiers into battle zones without the equipment to protect themselves and dropping the ball supporting soldiers and their families, exercising no accountability to the public or congress (magna carta, schmagna carta) and funneling billions of dollars into the pockets of their friends while bankrupting the country and destroying social services... citizens of a country like that have something to riot about.

Dave - 4-8-2006 at 07:35 AM

me & the girlfriend are going to Paris/Venice in 2.5 weeks, for vacation, if i see any riots i'll be sure to get some pic/video of it.

moron - 4-8-2006 at 01:00 PM

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Originally posted by MrBadVibes

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i dont think so
i would support a boycott of france anyday

Maybe Im just missing something then. I dont really understand all the hate towards France. Is it because theyre arrogant? Yeah... well so are Americans. Just look at the "we're gonna have to bail your ass out of another war" comments. I know there was some backlash when the French said that they wouldnt support a US invasion of Iraq, but they werent the only country saying that, and anyway... look at the results. Maybe they were right that we shouldnt have gotten involved?

I dont really spend time dwelling upon France, so if someone could throw some info out there to enlighten me as to why I should hate them then maybe I'll be able to understand. Overall it doesnt really matter to me in the long run though.

DaveMoral - 4-8-2006 at 02:38 PM

berets...

DaveMoral - 4-8-2006 at 02:38 PM

and mimes.

serenity - 4-8-2006 at 07:17 PM

if it werent for france you wouldnt have won the revolutionary war. also, the values and ideas that your precious constitution is written upon comes from the FRENCH REVOLUTION.

DaveMoral - 4-8-2006 at 08:53 PM

Oh yeah...

DAK - 4-9-2006 at 07:03 PM

Nothing worse thana French mime. Double the hate..

BDx13 - 4-10-2006 at 07:23 AM

dave, be careful of the strikes. those people love to stike.

Dave - 4-10-2006 at 08:40 AM

dont worry i will

upyerbum - 4-10-2006 at 09:06 PM

A baguette can do a lot of damage in a pinch.

Apotre - 4-13-2006 at 02:34 AM

Nice topic...

I did not understand everything because I do not master all the subtleties of the American language, but "Fuck the French" and "Fuck the French... Indeed" i understood.

I don't know for what you blame us. If it is still because for the war in Iraq, it would to stop to put this on the French people. You believe that it is us who made this decision? No, it is Chirac and De Villepin.

You believe that De Villepin and Chirac did not want to make the war because of the peace? the sames guys who support the dictatorship in official ivory cost and who are incriminated in shady business? Stop Bullshit

I am going to say you the trues reasons:

1) 25 % of the French population is Muslim. Thus if we helped you, we would have riots and civil war. There is big tensions beetween Muslim and some French..., you think zacharias moussaoui is a isolated man? There is lot of extrem muslim in France...

2) Before the war in Irak, France had just obtained a contract to redo and modernize the Iraq's electricity network. Constructions estimated : 10 Milliard euros.
Thus when the war be annoncing, the government mobilized, officialy " because the war is bad ", but unofficially because we had economic interest (construction site, petrole).

So beliveve in me, when i say that French people didn't responsible of the government d?cisions.

upyerbum - 4-13-2006 at 07:10 AM

Maybe the French government should buy shares in Halliburton.