Remember those “youths” in France who have burned tens of thousands of cars and openly attacked people on the streets of Paris? Evidently they are now campaign volunteers for French presidential candidate and socialist Segolene Royal. She is openly warning that if her opponent, pro-American candidate Nicolas Sarkozy is elected, havoc will ensue. Aside from the fact that this woman is a Socialist, she’s a thug. But I repeat myself. She supports and promises to extend those same policies that have brought France to her knees economically. Sarkozy promises some very mild reforms – such as not taxing overtime (where overtime is hours beyond the official 35 hour work week) to encourage people to work more. France already has a major Islamist problem. The banlieus have sections where police have been forbidden to go by Islamic immigrants from North Africa, tournantes (gang rapes) are frequent, and what Mark Steyn calls a “low level intifada” has been going on for years. Sarkozy calls these “youths” scum, Chirac appeased them, and Royal is trying to use them to get elected.
“Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy would be a dangerous choice,” Royal told RTL radio.
“It is my responsibility today to alert people to the risk of (his) candidature with regards to the violence and brutality that would be unleashed in the country (if he won),” she said.
Pressed on whether there would be actual violence, Royal said: “I think so, I think so,” referring specifically to France’s volatile suburbs hit by widespread rioting in 2005.
Royal may ride the tiger into office, but sooner or later she’ll have to get off of it.
Update: From Polipundit –
Tony Essono, 32, an unemployed economist whose parents emigrated from Cameroon before he was born, said that despite years of anger and discrimination, people in La Courneuve were willing to put their faith in the ballot box “because they understand they can change something” by voting. But, he added, “if Sarkozy is elected, it means we haven’t been heard, and we’ll trash everything.”
Niiiice.
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