Paris calls all willing citizens to become reservists
Source: AFP
Paris (AFP) - French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Saturday called "all patriotic citizens who wish to do so" to become reservists to boost security after the latest terror attack.
France's "operational reservists" include French citizens with or without military experience as well as former soldiers, and French President Francois Hollande said Friday he would call on them to boost the ranks of police and gendarmes.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/paris-calls-willing-citizens-become-reservists-172826456.html
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)and will the be a well regulated militia?
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)cstanleytech
(26,294 posts)At a guess it would be more like they would receive the training in the proper way to deal with guns as well as basic things like some basic hand to hand combat and other things like first aid which isnt necessarily a bad thing.
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)can shoot a tire.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)that they cant enter paradise if they have touched a pig product. Moderate muslims shouldn't have a problem with this, as they say terrorists don't represent islam. So, counter the martyrdom equals virgins in paradise with their dead carcasses will never make it there. Of course, the belief in afterlife is stupid, but they, and a lot of people, believe in it.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)That "dip bullets in pigs blood" thing is such an urban legend thing.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)I have a long time muslim friend who drinks alcohol, smokes, never prays, doesn't observe Ramadan, has pre-marital sex, etc etc. We were at a Mexican restaurant for lunch one day and he asked me what carnitas were. I told him "shredded meat". More specifically carnitas are shredded pork meat. I had no idea that avoiding pork is the one tradition he actually followed. He was pretty mad at me when he found out. And this was the reaction of a someone so moderate you could barely call him muslim.
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)By Ismail Khalidi [1] / AlterNet [2]
July 15, 2016
Nice erupted into chaos Thursday evening after a lorry driven through Bastille Day crowds killed and wounded hundreds of onlookers. Visiting family and friends in Nice for the week, I had ventured out with them to see the fireworks, finding ourselves at the time of the attack about 800 meters from the scene of the carnage.
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Honest self-reflection would connect these dots and produce a deep shift in policy: Rather than manufacturing and selling arms for outrageous profit, our governments should invest in public education and healthcare at home, both of which are being constantly whittled away and privatized in much of the industrialized world. Instead of bombing endlessly in the Middle East (one report suggests between one and two million people in the Middle East [3] have been killed during the 15 years of the so-called war on terror) we should invest in our crumbling infrastructures at home, where (in the U.S.) roads, bridges, railway tracks and water pipes are decrepit and dangerous to the public.
Instead of falling further into the abyss of xenophobia, racism and Islamophobia, we should listen to and better integrate immigrant and minority communities whence the alienated young criminals who have perpetrated most of the recent atrocities in France have come. Instead of more bombing, we should reach out to the the Arab and Muslim worldnot to deal arms or prop up autocrats and apartheid regimes as is our habit, but to help heal the wounds that the Wests policies have inflicted there with illegal, irrational and bloody wars like the one we waged against Iraq. And instead of building more prisons and further militarizing police on our own streets, we should acknowledge and confront the damage which these same police forces do to black, brown and immigrant communities on a regular basis.
And as we recoil in the coming days at the horror of Nice, we must also acknowledge the double standards around the value of human life, which our news media garishly display whenever such an attack strikes Europe or the U.S. Lives elsewherewhether in Baghdad, Gaza, Ferguson, Beirut, Kabul, Kenya, Mexico or Syria seem to mean very little to mainstream media and politicians when they are extinguished from above by jets or drones, executed by police or paramilitaries, or torn apart by other grisly acts of terror.
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http://www.alternet.org/print/grayzone-project/letter-nice-west-learning-all-wrong-lessons-latest-atrocity
Hey, you gotta leave somethin' for the kids.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)How do you teach someone right from wrong, when they are already brainwashed to murder infidels? Fail
edit: I didn't see that this wasn't a letter from Nice, but a letter from Ismail Khalidi. Now I get why all the wrong things are being suggested.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)These bums and thugs aren't going to learn right from wrong even if you "model" a way to assimilate. All they know is pious zealousy, rape and murder; get real man.
jtuck004
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Do you put on your coat and use it like a mantra?
This Be The Verse
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fuckered up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
____________________________________________
In their their best work, the subject vehemently denies any influence whatsoever, especially if they can't see it. But a few thousand years of history, and a few hundred years of repeatable research, stands in reuke of that nonsense.
You don't teach morality overtly, people learn it by how you act.
So this nation has taught too many who weren't white european exactly how they should act toward us. Shouldn't be at all surprised that some treat us as an equal.
Bts, parroting the real estate swindler's philosophy ain't gonna get us nothin' but more war. But I understand how one can be more comfortable in that position.
Pity
romanic
(2,841 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)It also has an uncomfortable history with Islam and colonialism, which will haunt it for decades to come
christx30
(6,241 posts)want to be part of French culture? That doesn't want to integrate? Like the ones in London holding the "death to the west" signs?
It's a two way street.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)The "lesson" he states is the French had it coming to them. What crap.
ChazII
(6,205 posts)What crap is an apt description. Thank you.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)snapback will be a brutal response. Chaos will commence shortly afterwards.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)They have capacity that most folks never think about and eventually a breaking point will be reached.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)The authorities were warned shortly before the Bastille Day massacre that things were getting to the breaking point.
It was reported in Le Figaro - he was talking to Parliament.
I can't find a good English source - this is the best I found:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-13/french-intel-chief-warns-migrant-sex-attacks-push-nation-brink-civil-war
adigal
(7,581 posts)because it has to be better than this shitshow I'm watching right now, a shitshow that may get 50% of this country's support in the end.