Thread: Comparing "Is Paris Burning?" to Reconquista

http://www.renewamerica.us/analyses/051113hutchison.htm
November 13, 2005
Fred Hutchison
RenewAmerica analyst

During August 1944, the Germans were preparing to evacuate Paris because the Allied troops were approaching the city. Hitler ordered the German commander of Paris to destroy the city. The bombs were rigged throughout Paris, but were never detonated. The story line of the movie revealed how Paris was barely saved from destruction. At the end of the movie, a German voice from Berlin spoke into a phone with no one at the receiver, and repeatedly asked, "Is Paris burning?" The camera zoomed to beautiful Parisian scenes accompanied by joyous music. The great city was saved.

Paris escaped burning in 1944, but it is burning now [in 2005]. It has fallen into the hands of a new set of incendiary thugs. The fallacious analysis of the cataclysm offered by wire news services (Associated Press, United Press International, and Reuters) indicates incomprehension of why young Muslims have been burning precincts of Paris and three hundred other French cities. The stunned and confused French government has responded to the crisis with astonishing weakness and embarrassing rationalizations of criminality and appeasements of evil. The self-deceived and dithering French President Jacques Chirac must pull his head out the sand and ask, "Is Paris burning?" The answer is, "Yes, and you have not done much to stop it, unlike the French Resistance of 1944."

French denial, self-deception, and moral paralysis

This fiasco is a case study of the weakness of Postmodern liberal leadership during a crisis. The fallacies of Marxist sociology and the unexpected and dysfunctional effects of socialism are exposed by this meltdown. The policy of permitting massive immigration of third world Muslims to France, combined with a foolish multicultural policy of non-assimilation of Muslims, heavily contributed to the social meltdown. The failure of the French government and the press to consider the jihadist ideology of young European Muslims and the criminal ties of the rampaging street gangs is part of a great muddle that has led to a crisis of ever-growing proportions.

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Moral bankruptcy of leaders

The challenge to the French nation by Muslim teen gangs could only have happened because there was extraordinary moral weakness by those in authority. The moral bankruptcy of the French comes from decades of moral and cultural relativism. The pandering of president Chirac to the vandals reminds me of the pandering by the feckless Aztec emperor Montezuma to Cortez, who led a few boatloads of Spanish adventurers. Montezuma ruled an empire comparable in size and wealth to the Roman Empire, but was defeated by two hundred Spanish freebooters.

America is being inundated by a flood of illegal aliens from Mexico and Latin America. The sheer numbers of those sneaking across the border are too great to assimilate in orderly fashion. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have had the moral courage to take back the borderlands and restore order where chaos reigns. Drugs, criminals, kidnappers, and terrorists easily cross the border. The astonishingly weak American policy defies the desire of large majorities of Americans who want law and order restored along our nation's borders and sane, safe policies of immigration.

The liberal education establishment is mimicking the French in their advocacy of teaching classes in Spanish, glorifying Hispanic culture, and ignoring America's cultural traditions. The old American melting pot that assimilated immigrants is now a politically incorrect idea among the liberal elites. Limitation and control of immigration is regarded by them as "racism."

Mark Krikorian, Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote on 11/9/05:

"As riots engulf France's immigrant communities and threaten to spread across Europe, government leaders are learning — perhaps too late — that immigration numbers and integration matter. The United States, with its successful history of immigration and assimilation, still has time to avoid going down the same path. However, proposals for huge new foreign-worker schemes, that could dwarf even the great wave of immigration we have experienced over the past generation, would create for the United States many of the problems Europe is experiencing."

Conclusion

Is Paris burning? Yes. Will San Diego and Los Angeles be burning a generation from now? Maybe. It does not have to happen. If America changes its course on border control, law enforcement, illegal aliens, and assimilation, the nightmare can be avoided. It is high time that the Army be sent to police the border. A national dialogue about how many and what kind of legal immigrants we will accept is imperative. The lawless Hispanic teen gangs in San Diego, Los Angeles, and other large cities must be put out of business by strict law enforcement and curfews in gang-infested neighborhoods. The schools should teach Hispanic teens American history, law, culture, patriotism, and civic values and throw multiculturalists programs into the waste basket. Our goal must be assimilation and integration, not separate cultural enclaves.

Republicans! Our president Bush has been consistently worse than the liberals in his policies on illegal aliens. But now that his administration is under fire and has lost a lot of support from his conservative base, he is trying to make amends with his judicial appointments and immigration policy. At this moment, he is making compromises with conservative legislators and proposing half-measures about enforcement of the law on the border and dealing with illegal aliens. However, do not count upon a change of heart. The new policies are half-hearted compromises.

Hillary Clinton has moved to the right of Bush on illegal immigration and will certainly win the 2008 presidential election [note: this article was published on 11/13/05] if she remains to the right of the Republicans on this subject. The successful conservative revolt set off by the Harriet Miers judicial betrayal would not have been possible if conservatives had not already been disaffected with Bush about illegal aliens and reckless government spending. This is a golden opportunity for conservatives to raise the heat on illegal aliens. Victory in 2008 is at stake. The avoidance of a debacle in the mid-term elections of 2006 is still possible. There is still time to learn from the French mistakes about immigration and multiculturalism, and to avoid the disasters that have come upon them.

Conservatives! We finally are being taken seriously by the administration and Congress and have some real influence. Let's use it!

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/...lls-of-ys.html
This blog discusses multiculturalism, ghettoization, and non-assimilation as contributing factors to the Nov., 2005, Paris riots.