We'll always have Paris...
... or so goes the line, anyway. If the Islamists have their way,
we won't have Paris any longer; they will have burned it to the
ground. The media are trying to avoid reporting facts about the
situation. But the facts that the blogosphere can put together
sound like organized guerilla warfare,
not rioting; and there was a very, very telling quotation from NPR that
I heard on the way home today. Obviously I don't have the actual
quote, so I'm working from memory here. But the commenter -- who
spoke English with a moderate accent and clearly identified with the
rioters strongly, to the point of using "we" more than once --
described the motivation behind the rioting as:"Maybe, in order to get people to listen, we have to scare people. Nothing is being done about [the problems]. If people are scared maybe they will do something."Again, that's paraphrased from memory, but I was very shocked that it was stated that boldly, and so I am quite confident that the meaning of the statement has been preserved. Ladies and gentleman, what is happening in Paris is the textbook definition of terrorism. Violence against innocents in support of a political goal. |
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