Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Riots

The fifth night of riots in Clichy-Sous-Bois. Again, like in New Orleans, what is wrong with those people? Imagine that in your neighborhood two teenagers climb into an electrical relay station and earn a well-deserved Darwin award. (Some people claim they were running away from police, some that they were not, and some that they believed that police was chasing them even though it really wasn't.) Would that prompts you to burn all the trashcans in sight, torch a few cars of your neighbors, throw Molotov cocktails around, set fire to the local post office and daycare and attack the police? For five nights? Not unless you enjoy doing all those things to begin with and were just looking for an excuse.

What kind of fuckers enjoy doing all of the above?

Another interesting question: why does this get so little attention in Finnish media? HS started covering it only after two days, and did not cover some of the previous French riots at all. And was there anything at all about the current riots in Egypt?

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