Here comes again Clichy-sous-Bois!

It's not a matter of "not enough promises". No, it's not that. It has never been that. Politics don't understand that keeping the people satisfied, happy and peaceful isn't like keeping a cyberpet, where you just press a button and they are automatically "happy" or "employed" or "well behaved". A country is not a big "tamagochi population". It seems M. Nicholas Sarkozy don't get that quite well. The riot at Clichy-sous-Bois exploded when HE was the Interior Security Minister (Law-and-Order Interior Minister according to the New York Times) and his answer to the crisis was to order curfews. Yes, keep them locked at home, then fill their ears with empty promises and let them go. Sure they are gonna behave.

For some whatever-bonker-manuever or massive-brainwashing or whatever that escapes my reason, the French people elected him as president. Like they say in Costa Rica: "que nos agarren confesados" ("may they catch us confessed"), and what kind of things he proposes? Well, what about reducing the amount of inmigrants? Tighten up the borders, go US-like. And solutions? Noooo! As a matter of fact, lets fuck up the pro-worker employment system so that more people can be fired! Fuck up schedules, fuck up wages, fuck up job stability. Who needs them anyhow? What's the purpose of this dude? Get some "national beggers" to balance out all the African beggers?

Clichy-sous-Bois was an unresolved matter, and it was about time it would explode again. I'm going home in two and a half weeks and I'll be in Paris (a programmed stop of mine so often it's already a habit) on the 17th for the whole day (basically) and the the night between Jan. 2nd and 3rd. Can I expect to find myself in a rumble like that? Then again, in 2005 I was there, at night, for New Year, streets full of GORGEOUS French "Gendarmes" and nothing bad happened. (Only the unclean thoughts in my head ^_^)

I can understand that there might be a problem of "funds" to face the problems presented by this less-fortunate area, but cutting back on taxes and pushing prices down is not the best thing to do when you have to help out a country. You can't lower the influx of money into the National Treasury at the beginning of the period, when you have to back up your word, when you have so many things to do, so much to attend. But then again, this man evidently is only interested in the sense of Power he can gather for himself. Frenchs might have fucked it up in many things, might have lost the Rugby World Cup pathetically, BUT electing this clown was the worse thing they could have come up with.

I'm not in France, I'm not French and I have no connection whatsoever with the people from the banlieues, but I do believe that, if they are not satisfied now, unless the banlieues get "leveled" to the ground, people and buildings alike, then this is gona keep raising and raising until the people, police, youth and innocent civilians lose more than just an eye. This is not te time for words and politics, but for money, budget and smart spending in housing, education and jobs.