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looks like it's getting worse...

No answers in sight. I'm not optimisitic there's going to be a solution without serious bloodshed.

France rioters: 'Each night we make this place Baghdad'

Paris - 'We burned 15 cars. How many do you have?' A grim contest is under way in France as kids from disadvantaged suburbs vie with each other to see who can riot the hardest.

On Internet websites, young arsonists brag about their successes. Rioting, it seems, has become a trend sport, as youths in immigrant areas of provincial cities begin to rally to the call from Paris.

While political slogans hold no sway among these youngsters, hatred for Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is palpable. 'Now we're the ones chasing you with the Karcher (high-pressure hoses),' they say, referring to Sarkozy's pledge to clean the suburbs of 'scum'.

But all is not lost.
FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Paris Riots Spread Throughout France

On Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people marched through one of the worst-hit suburbs, Aulnay-sous-Bois (search). Local officials wore sashes in the red, white and blue of the French flag as they filed past housing projects and the wrecks of burned cars. One white banner read, "No to violence."

Well, that ought to cure the problem. Who can reisist marching, unarmed, Frenchmen?

J.

Comments (2)

JLawson:

Destroying the system you want to supposedly assimilate into is a bad idea. Destroying the systems you depend upon for your weekly dole is a worse one.

The longer the delay by France, the worse the resolution will be.

J.

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