Re: Old Labour Rises From the Dead

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

Oh, mon ami ; quelle analyse, on va dire, "pédestre" que vous nous présentéz 
là.

The Kiffeurs have undergone 30 years of sub-soviet "historical compromise" 
between de Gaulle's legacy and the shadow of that near-Chechen montagnard 
Staline. The result is a more sophisticated, carefully partitioned off 
replica of the Deutsches Demokratisches Republik, which is now such an 
eagerly sought-after Kitsch Disneyland souvenir car-boot sale property for 
bo-bos. But come to visit the real thing ; suburb of Vaulx-en Vélin, near 
Lyon (home town of Pierre Valdo, first heretic to challenge the Pope, in 
1250, see "The Name of the Rose" for details), stroll down Boulevard Lénine, 
or visit Avenue de Stalingrad, or loiter along la Rue Staline (I KID YOU 
NOT). These are Tower Blocks worthy of Berlin-Ost, or Kirovgrad, or indeed 
anywhere in that lost world pre-1989, when the CIA was busily financing the 
many-headed Hydra of what we now commodiously call "al-Qaida". It is STILL 
WITH US, in 2005, in this "Douce France" where the black beret and the 
baguette, tho' still to be found, cautiously, in between the twee 
mock-English Tea Shoppes founded by refugees from Thatcher's Britain (and 
that of Her favourite nephew, Bliar), in various nooks and crannies, where 
thick strong Gauloise tobacco still holds sway, along with the line of 
yellow ones ("pastis" to the unitiated)...still to be found, I say, in 
between these foul "cités" where the product of the Trente Glorieuses 
(1945-75) now lies fallow, with names like Abdel and Mamadou and Vin Tran 
Quiang ; the White Man's Burden, nothing to do with fucking Le Pen and his 
oldtimer Vichyssois/OAS dreamtime ; this the land where Massoud the Lion of 
Panshir was some sort of hope, to be assassinated TWO DAYS before the fabled 
legendary RingSaga'd Twin Towers fell ; the REAL StartUp of what we now 
behold, coupled with the Global Warming what will get ye all ; are you ready 
for Quebec temperatures in Tunbridge Wells?

Selah

Hunter P. Thompson, RIP 



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