And on the Seventh Day, They Rioted Some More

As Breitbart's AP reports:

Eric, a 22-year-old in Clichy-sous-Bois who was born in France to Moroccan parents, said police target those with dark skin. He said he has been unable to find full-time work for two years and that the riots were a demonstration of suburban solidarity.

"People are joining together to say we've had enough," he said. He refused to give his surname because talking to reporters was poorly regarded in his neighborhood.

"We live in ghettos," he added. "Everyone lives in fear."

Many immigrant families are trapped in housing projects that were built to accommodate foreign laborers welcomed by post-World War II France but have since succumbed to despair, chronic unemployment and lawlessness. In some neighborhoods, drug dealers and racketeers hold sway and experts say Islamic radicals seek to recruit disenchanted youths by telling them that France has abandoned them.

Let's get this straight. People who are rioting are destroying their own neighborhoods because they're demonstrating surburban solidarity. They're only making their own situation worse, but I really doubt that the hooligans who are busy torching cars and committing acts of violence really care.

"French society is in a bad state ... increasingly unequal, increasingly segregated, and increasingly divided along ethnic and racial lines," said sociologist Manuel Boucher. Some youths turn to Islam to claim an identity that is not French, "to seize on something which gives them back their individual and collective dignity."

French governments have injected funds and job-creation schemes for years but failed to cure ills in suburbs where car-burnings and other crimes are daily facts of life.

"No matter what the politicians say, some neighborhoods are all but lost," said Patrice Ribeiro, national secretary of the Synergie police officers' union. "Police patrols pass through but without stopping and with their windows rolled up."

Are the Democrats in Congress paying attention - all the decades of social welfare programs that were supposed to help in France didn't work, and they're even more socialist than the Democrats in this country are. The French have instituted far more draconian work rules to try and improve matters, but have only succeeded in making things worse.

So, we're supposed to believe that some neighborhoods are lost permanently? I don't think so. Someone has to impose law and order there, or the problems will only spread. Mark my words.