This is so bizarre to watch: as the French leader Sarkozy was out globe hopping people all over France started rioting. But the riots are over different things. One could almost argue that the rioters are diametrically opposed - note that one is a "strike" and the other is a "riot".

First the "big news" that the unbiased, non partisan media thought worthy of putting up as a lead story almost everywhere: French transportation workers went on "strike" to protest badly needed reforms in the state pension program.

As usual, the liberal elites at the top want to portray themselves as blue collar working slobs struggling to make ends meet despite living a better life than most of the people around them. I'm always amazed that holier than thou left wingers on the government payroll are always demanding pay raises, perks, more time off, etc - but that never makes them "greedy".

This upper crust has embedded themselves firmly and control a lot of the government despite the "conservative" leadership of it's current administration.

But this beast needs to feed and looks to the people who are outside of it for its sustenance: namely the young. This begs the question "How much can the government take before these people start saying 'no'?"

And of course this liberal upper crust has the support of the rest of the liberal upper crust at the Universities, the newspapers and goverment agencies.

The other story isn't deemed worth reporting by major media outlets: the ghetto areas are "rioting". And by "riot", I mean "riot" - as in there is violence.

But even as the backwater channels cover this second story, they continue to put it in Communist/Socialist terms: The people of the ghetto are poor. The people of the ghetto are oppressed racially. The people of the ghetto can't get government assistance they need thanks to evil conservatives like Sarkozy.

I'll give you that these people are poor - but there is a reason this: these people are North African immigrants that have not assimilated. Would you hire someone to program a computer that didn't know any programming languages? Of course not, they're not qualified for the job. So would you hire someone who can't speak a word of French in a mostly French speaking nation to do something like wait on tables? Again no - these people aren't qualified for the position.

As for the other parts: I thought racism didn't exist in France. At least, that's what American lefties have been telling me for years. So what's up with this "racial discrimination" problem now?

The French are starting to think that they have a problem. The ghetto areas are starting to get dangerous. About a year ago France burned and rioters were using crowbars and baseball bats. This time the rioters were using guns and homemade bazookas (interesting considering I thought guns were illegal in France too).

France is going to have to take a serious look at what's going on. The next problem is that they can't. They've been buying Marxist philosophy for too long. Whereas you can buy off French strikers with more money and a shorter work week, the promise of government benefits for the ghettos is just empty rhetoric. As I already pointed out: These ghetto people are from North Africa and even after a couple of generations in France they can't speak French, they don't share the culture and they don't think of themselves as Frenchmen. A lot of these "angry youths" as the media likes to call them lest they be charged racist, are radical Muslims. It's not that these people don't have access to things, it's that they don't want them.

This fits a scary pattern of Islamic conquest in other places like India and Israel: move in, demand to run the place you invaded and declare everything just outside your boundary "sacred" to Islam so you can set up for expansion. These immigrants have already begun dubbing ghetto areas around places like Paris "occupied territory" as if its theirs.

Unfortunately Marxist philosophy can't accept the fact that people can be motivated by things other than money (like say religion). A lot of liberal elites can't accept the fact that the people are being motivated and finding comfort in the Koran. So the French continue to make promises of government programs as if they can buy these people off.

But it's not working. But it looks like it is as the riots calm down for a little while - but it's not due to the promises of the French so much as the rioters getting bored and going home.

France is in for serious trouble - and it's a lot closer than anyone may care to claim. Radicals at both ends are taking to the streets. It's only a matter of time until the two begin to smack head on as poor starving Communist millionaires smack head on in to truly poor starving Wahabbists.

Jeremy Meister graduated with a B.S. in History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1998 and a B.S. in Media Production from Missouri State University at Springfield in 2005. He is also a film director, producer and author of over seven feature length screenplays including 'Hollow Dogs' and 'Epic: the Autumn Gales', as well as owning his own film company: the famous LWC Productions. Jeremy is the former host and producer of the Conservative internet radio program "The Tzimisce Show". Presently he is working behind the scenes at Lotus Broadcasting on such shows as "The Mr. Sunshine Show" with occasional work for HBO and UFC. Contact him at LWC_Productions@hotmail.com or at myspace.com/quentonquale. For a complete list of blogs check out: http://tzimisce.townhall.com/

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