French riots: talking sense to right wing friends
My old friend Reactionary Bob writes in response to news of the French riots:
Having a generous immigration policy gets a country this sort of problem. The immigrants don’t appreciate being taken in….they only become disgruntled and become a problem.
Bob and others — if people are disgruntled, chances are they have reasons to be disgruntled and the immigration policy isn’t as generous as you imagine.
The illegals aren’t legally allowed to work. There’s no way to survive in that case except welfare and crime. The only people who really have a stake in the welfare system are the bureaucrats who administer it. For everyone else, it’s a trap that might as well have been designed to keep people down.
Also, Euro-socialism makes jobs scarcer than they naturally would be on a free market — so little real chance exists even for the people who are there legally and not sans papier. French policies might as well have been planned to create a welfare dependent and/or violent criminal underclass.
Many or most French cops, like here in the US, are ex-military. You may remember that this modern wave of immigration started right after France wound down their colonial presence in North Africa. The Algerian independence struggle, in particular, was one of the nastiest. French
soldiers quickly learned to not trust anybody with tan or brown skin in that war. So, you’ve now got people you’ve given little choice but to live outside the law — and you’re enforcing the law with PTSD-shocked vets who now often have a grudge against everybody with tan or brown skin. That’s what set the tone for the decades leading up to this. It’s hard to imagine a set of circumstances better calculated to result in routine police brutality.
Is all that an excuse to destroy property and hurt innocent people? Of course not. Still, if you beat a dog enough, he’ll eventually start biting everybody that comes in reach — not just you. Are men dogs? No, but the larger point remains generally true.
People respond to incentives. I do not think that government should provide positive incentives — the way statist liberals do. The implementation of such attempts is inevitably twisted to benefit the elite at the expense of the common man. I’m just pointing out that the French government has been providing some powerful negative incentives to those folks for a long time.
If the French government wants people to behave, they may want to stop screwing them over.
On the other hand, it may be to late for that. How reasonable would you be if your mother and sister had their ladies Sunday school class at church tear-gassed and then, as they ran out choking and gagging, got roughed up and called “whore” and “bitch” by the cops?
You think you might be a little disgruntled in that case? I do.
The French government has been waging a war against the poor for a long time. A backlash was inevitable. My only regret is that the rioters don’t pick their targets better. The French government has been the source of their woes. I would not be able to criticise them if they were only attacking government targets.
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