Reserves called up... why no outrage?
Oh wait, because they're French police reservists
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I'm amazed that there's no outrage at the idea that a new batch of reservists are being called up. With the on-going body count of dead and wounded in Iraq, and the main stream media's harping on the number of reservists that have received a baptism by fire in Iraq, I would think that news of calling up a new bunch of reservists would rate major headlines.
Ooooops, never mind. We're talking about French reservists. French police reservists. Not U.S. armed forces reservists.
These kinds of reservists hardly rate a mention. They're just being called up to deal with rioting and un-rest because of the idiotic secularist laws that French leadership tried to ram down the throats of their citizens -- including laws that banned headware for young Muslim women.
I don't know what the best way to handle the growing number of Muslims and their increasing demands within European society is, but it's very obvious that the French leadership also doesn't know either, and their ineptitude is now costing them serverely with the rioting that is going on.
Anyway, original article snippet and link follows.
France tries reserves, curfews to stem riots
1,500 police reservists called upon to stop civil unrest on 12th night
PARIS - France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order “our No. 1 responsibility.”
The tough new measures came as France’s worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting police with gasoline bombs and rocks.
Rioters in the southern city of Toulouse ordered passengers off a bus and then set fire to it and pelted police with gasoline bombs and rocks. Youths torched another bus in the northeastern Paris suburb of Stains, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said.
Outside the capital in Sevran, a junior high school was set ablaze, while in another Paris suburb, Vitry-sur-Seine, youths threw gasoline bombs at a hospital, police said. No one was injured. Earlier, a 61-year-old retired auto worker died of wounds from an attack last week, the first death in the violence.
Rioters also attacked a police station with gasoline bombs in Chenove, in Burgundy’s Cote D’Or, Hamon said.
Asked on TF1 television whether the army should be brought in, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said, “We are not at that point.”
... more at linked article
emphasis added
So it seems that the French may soon be calling up reservists of a different sort. Army, or at least the equivalent of our own National Guard, or perhaps even their own military.
Good luck Europe, it seems you'll need it.
Ooooops, never mind. We're talking about French reservists. French police reservists. Not U.S. armed forces reservists.
These kinds of reservists hardly rate a mention. They're just being called up to deal with rioting and un-rest because of the idiotic secularist laws that French leadership tried to ram down the throats of their citizens -- including laws that banned headware for young Muslim women.
I don't know what the best way to handle the growing number of Muslims and their increasing demands within European society is, but it's very obvious that the French leadership also doesn't know either, and their ineptitude is now costing them serverely with the rioting that is going on.
Anyway, original article snippet and link follows.
France tries reserves, curfews to stem riots
1,500 police reservists called upon to stop civil unrest on 12th night
PARIS - France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order “our No. 1 responsibility.”
The tough new measures came as France’s worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting police with gasoline bombs and rocks.
Rioters in the southern city of Toulouse ordered passengers off a bus and then set fire to it and pelted police with gasoline bombs and rocks. Youths torched another bus in the northeastern Paris suburb of Stains, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said.
Outside the capital in Sevran, a junior high school was set ablaze, while in another Paris suburb, Vitry-sur-Seine, youths threw gasoline bombs at a hospital, police said. No one was injured. Earlier, a 61-year-old retired auto worker died of wounds from an attack last week, the first death in the violence.
Rioters also attacked a police station with gasoline bombs in Chenove, in Burgundy’s Cote D’Or, Hamon said.
Asked on TF1 television whether the army should be brought in, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said, “We are not at that point.”
... more at linked article
emphasis added
So it seems that the French may soon be calling up reservists of a different sort. Army, or at least the equivalent of our own National Guard, or perhaps even their own military.
Good luck Europe, it seems you'll need it.
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