French Jobs Law Failure

And this illustrates why living in France is both an awesome and extremely annoying thing, nowadays.

The French contestation culture is that double edged sword which gave this country it's unique political, social and historical destiny eversince the 1789 French revolution. The French people became famous for being a people who know when to stand up for it's rights, and it brought us all kind of advantages among the years ... as well as disadvantages.

Worse, French people arent what they used to be. When there is indeed something noble in people risking their lives fighting for they think is fair like in all of our revolutions, when there is indeed something admirable in workers rebelling against the exploitation they're victims of, when there is even something kinda understandable in that farce of a war against power that was May 1968 ... there is simply something pathetic when seeing March 2006 edition students yelling in the streets what basically comes down to saying " I WANT A COOL QUIET JOB LIKE DADDY ".

De Villepin was of course an ass to act the way he did. Trying to pass his law en force. I mean, you can't be prime minister of France and know French people so badly, can you?

The extremist leftists commies anarchist nihilists "my dad buys the cars I set on fire" students of the Sorbonnes were too happy to take the opportunity to re-enact May 1968 scenes and awaken public opinion. It's important to know that such students are kind of a tradition in every French universities eversince the 70's.

So they start blocking universities all over the territory. Labour Unions eventually join in, and then all your ordinary pacifist white dude with dreadlocks 16~20yo join in because, well, why not. It's soon a good part of France's students that are in the streets, backed up by leftist labours.

So there: we went from a communist/nihilistic/anarchist action to a kiddie march surrounded by Labours Unions members usually all working for the State. Only in France. <_<

They then try to get the other workers in but with few sucesses. The suburbs youth try to join in. Youth and labours go "hurray" until Rachid, Abdula and Mamadou start beating the shit out of everyone. I think those are still the less hypocrites of the bunch. Well anyway of course youth will yell at policemen that they didnt defend them, when they were themselves throwing bottles to the same policement a couple minutes before... But there I'm getting carried away again ...

SO, marches, demonstrations, blockings, illegal occupations ... That's March 2006 in France. Fortunately very few violences take place after the early days suburb kids attacks.

Politically, left is blaming right, as usual. It would even seem that the only politicians left in this country are the right wingers, as the left is making analogies after analogies describing the whole french populace oppressed by the vicious right wing.

Then Chirac mumbles stuff about validating-but-rediscussing-or-maybe changing-things-here-and-there-and-hum-what-was-I-saying... and simply cancels the law a few days after. If there were still people hesitating on wether he got strange longwinded strategies or is just plain fucking stupid ...

So yeah, French people is happy. It had it's oppresor's head on a pike and can proceed on it's nationalist impulse to invade a few countries or fund a visionary republic... Except this time the head on a pike are just words in the air and that they'll come back to their spoiled little lives while other laws are rewritten behind their backs.

Of course we all know that kind of stuff can only last so long ... France these days is basically a prostitute who won't aknowledge it. It's been benefitting of the world economy and capitalist ways for decades and wants to pretend otherwise. Capiltalism, mercantilism and globalization may be despicable concepts to some, we still chosed to walk that path years ago. The naive masses ones need to understand it and the few real revolutionaries need to shut the fuck up and fly the hell out of Cuba or some other commie *paradise*.

I personaly have confidence that when the time will come that it's truly too late, French people will have the strenght to provoke the traditional national impulse that will get us back on tracks. Also, Sarkosy comin liek wut ~

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by RABicle

Are you a fence sitter or what? Stop disguising opinion in words.

I think I made my opinion perfectly clear when describing myself as a pro-Sarkozy ...

There's nowhere I can't reach.