If the throng of foreign vandals currently rioting in France hate that country so much, then why don’t they leave?
It’s a question all normal people ask, but one that never seems to be voiced by a leftist media anxious to portray the rabble as pitiable victims. Now, France’s hard-line Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy-himself the son of a Hungarian immigrant and a major target of the rioter’s pique-has decided to help some of the poor rioters escape the injustice of life in France.
Just days after their arrests, hundreds of rioters have already been subjected to expedited judicial hearings, been found guilty of their crimes, and 120 of these sentenced to deportation back to the Islamic paradises from which they fled to find a better life rioting in France.
The soon-to-be-deportees include both illegal aliens and legal residents of foreign origin. Minister Sarkozy reported to parliament that "I have asked the prefects to deport them from our national territory without delay, including those who have a residency visa." If their deportations proceed as fast as their trials, they could be free of the moral burden of French life within weeks.
Undoubtedly, such swift justice (along with a curfew and other measures) is among the reasons that the intensity of the riots has finally subsided. There is much to criticize in the French response to the Islamanarchist riots, especially the virtual abdication of President Jacques Chirac, who was nowhere to be found during most of the crisis, leaving more junior members of the government to deal with the mess without adequate backing.
But the arrest, trial, and sentencing of hundreds of rioters in mere days, so that the punishments could act as a deterrent to other rioters, was one of the most effective uses of judicial power I have ever seen. The trials alone would have taken 18 months in the United States, and deportation would never be carried out successfully.
Unfortunately, most of the rioters hold French citizenship, having received it automatically by virtue of the happy accident of their births having occurred inside France, so they cannot be so easily helped out of the country they detest so much. But Jean-Marie Le Pen, a pro-French France politician that the European media invariably describes as “far-right,” “extreme right,” or “evil” has called for all rioters to be stripped of citizenship, then deported.
It will not happen. But the mere suggestion of it, along with the example of the expedited trials will sap the fearlessness of the arsonist horde and help restore order.
And perhaps it might remind a few of the disaffected “youths” that, if they really want to live free of French laws and customs, they can always leave.
Both Sarkozy and Le Pen are expected to run for the French Presidency in 2007. Perhaps one should consider the campaign slogan: “Vive La France, or Leave La France!”
Maybe there is a glimmer of hope for France yet.
