This article first appeared in New English Review.
It was not only Paris; Demonstrations in other French
cities, ostensibly to protest the high cost of living, high fuel costs, and poor
school conditions spiraled out of control and turned into violent and
destructive riots. Several cities witnessed their town halls under attack, most
notably Limoges, where rioters overwhelmed police, who literally had to flee
for their lives. Once inside, the rioters set the building ablaze, destroying
much of the 19th century landmark structure including its iconic
steeple. Similar scenes played out in Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Lille, Rennes,
and other large metropolitan areas. Over 1,000 French police officers have been
injured.
In Paris, while a female Spanish reporter was broadcasting
from the scene during the night of the 17th, she had to suspend her
broadcast when several young men, apparently of Arab and African background,
hogged the camera and waved their middle fingers and made throat-slashing
gestures (below).
If that wasn’t enough, riots also broke out in Italian
cities, most notably Milan in front of the famed Duomo cathedral. There was nothing
spontaneous or organic about any of this. This was all organized, the latest
example of the red-green alliance, the marriage of convenience between Islamist
extremists, migrant thugs, Antifa, Black Bloc, anarchists, the Palestinian flag
wavers, Marxists, and various and sundry left-wing radicals. It had nothing to
do with the high cost of living or poor school conditions. It was about
destroying Western civilization from within.
Make no mistake: This is largely the result of Europe’s total
mishandling of immigration and asylum policies, policies which, when handled
correctly and wisely, can greatly benefit a country. Many of the rioters in
France are the children of migrants, second and third generation French
citizens, yet unassimilated and disaffected from French society, and mostly
Muslim, the perfect deadly cocktail.
Last night, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to the
nation on television. I watched a replay of his speech an hour or so later. To
me, it was typically weak and pusillanimous. After promising that the rioters
would “pay” for their transgressions, he assured (lawful) protesters that the
government was listening to their concerns about the high costs of living and
fuel and the conditions of schools. He took an indirect swipe at Trump and
Netanyahu by referring to rising fuel costs in France due to a war that France
had nothing to do with. And, of course, he appealed for calm in the runup to
the upcoming elections scheduled for April 2027, which must now seem like an
eternity in France.
What he did not do was declare a state of emergency. Not
being familiar with French law, I don’t know what it requires for the French
military to get involved (as was recently done in Spain with the Ceuta
situation), but it is painfully clear that the police cannot handle this alone.
It is now just a matter of time before they start getting killed. It is also a
matter of time before they have to kill in self-defense.
The mess in Europe, which has been escalating since 2015,
when former German chancellor Angela Merkel opened the floodgates to Syrian
refugees, has now reached a new level of violence, and it is intolerable.
France now has an opportunity to lead the way for the rest of Europe. It must
seize that opportunity, or radicals in the rest of Western Europe will taste the
blood and rise up. This uprising must be
put down, and the perpetrators and those financing them from behind the scenes must
be removed from society and removed from Europe. Personally, I don’t care if
France has to send in the French Foreign Legion. I don’t care if France has to
bring back the guillotine, and I don’t care if they have to reopen Devil’s
Island. France needs to act now, and the rest of the EU needs to support France
and act in concert with her. The more
the cancer spreads, the more drastic the surgery will have to be.
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