[ssf] RE: Paris

[Adam Moran]

Chris Malins wrote:
> Is it not possible that this actually represents recreational violence 
> on behalf of a criminal section of the oppressed underclass, and that 
> while sympathising with the roots of the problem we should recognise 
> that many of the individuals concerned are vicious little bastards with 
> no respect for their own community or anyone else's? 

Nil points to Malins of Sarkozy College Sheffield.

I'm feeling very Bamber like today. I blame Paxo stuffing Davis last 
night on Newsnight. It was all very binary; like Paxo rocked whilst 
Davis sucked.

And the same on This Week: Parsons - boo hiss ... who was he 
representing ? Whilst Clare Short and Clark rocked.

I don't blame Malins. I think he's suffering from Matilda fatigue. I 
mean read this offering before the last head-bang there; it just rocks:

http://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/matilda/2005-October/000937.html

Any way, here's a snip from the Nation to juxtapose ...

    'In 1990 Socialist president François Mitterrand described what life
    was like for jobless ghetto youths warehoused in the overcrowded
    cités: "What hope does a young person have who's been born in a
    soulless quartier, who lives in an unspeakably ugly high-rise,
    surrounded by more ugliness, imprisoned by gray walls in a gray
    wasteland and condemned to a gray life, with all around a society
    that prefers to look away until it's time to get mad, time to
    FORBID?" But Mitterrand's compassionate words masked a failed policy,
    and fifteen years after his diagnosis the hopelessness and alienation
    of these ghetto youths' "gray lives" have only become deeper and more
    rancid still.'

    Why Is France Burning?
    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051128/ireland