Riots: a little better

1173 cars, 330 arrests, 12 police officers injured. Nobody is mentioning trashcans anymore, I guess they have burned them all already.

The government has authorized curfews in towns that need it (AFAIK it's each town's mayor's call). They are not actually doing much, they are just talking about being firm. I realize that it's easy to criticise from a couple
of thousands kilometers away, but I am starting to understand why some people have been using the term "villepinist" as a synonym for "idiotarian". (The use of both terms can be conveniently demonstrated by mentioning that the Green party considers curfews "a totally disproportionate escalation". The cynic in me says that none of their constituency lives in the afflicted suburbs.)

Anyway, I don't think they are going to do anything until and unless the rioters go into cities and attack decent people there. (Or maybe not until they attack Chirac and Villepin personally.) I am sure all the decent Arab people in the suburbs (not the "poor frustrated youths" but the ones whose cars they are currently burning) feel soooooo loved and cared for by their government.

Couldn't we give the rioters a state of their own? Please? Somewhere in Northern Siberia? They would live happily together there, and make laws that forbid forming any kind of police force and give everyone lots of money, which they would also conveniently print, and lots of women, which they will probably also have to print.