Re: Oly in ER

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Olivere" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:03 PM
Subject: RE: [CAT23-Achat] Oly in ER


> Peter,
>
> Good to hear from you. There has been so little activity recently that I
> almost passed by your post.
>
>            I never had any involvement with the TV show ER, which is too
> bad for me, because I imagine I'd be pretty well off if I had. We probably
> had discussions about it in the past, and certainly my job has come up on
> several occasions, but I remain just a plain old (and getting older) ER doc
> with no tie to the glamour of TV. I haven't even watched the show for years.


Shame. Probably would have been a good money spinner for you.



>            Shall we return to our lethargy, then, or should we talk about
> something? What exactly is going on in the Paris suburbs. It sounds and
> looks ugly?

I would say that it is a mixture of poverty, unemployment and racial tensions maybe much the same mix which led 
to similar violence in the UK in 1981. It is hard to imagine that the violence will improve the lot of the 
perpetrators in the short term, it does not seem to be organised enough to have any realistic clear objectives 
that the government can meet. I would imagine that the perpetrators will bore of it and then it will fizzle out. 
It will then be up to the government to try to establish what the causes are and decide how best to address 
them. I think that will be difficult to accomplish though since the rules of Euro membership limit room for 
manoever economically, and initiatives such as Schenegan make immigration control more difficult. This makes for 
a good feeding ground for the likes of Jean-Marie LePen, who once they win office only manage to stir the pot 
and make things worse.

Regards
Peter



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