Hi Roni,
Interesting situation in this mass display of Civil Disobedience. Interesting in the magnitude of persons involved and the resulting distruction of personal and goverment property.
It is easy to sit back, and bring condemnation upon the French Police for their inaction.
But, perhaps one should look at the root cause, study for a minute, the foundation of such a movement, examine the people involved and type of violence: violence against primarly property? violence primarly against people? combination of violence against both people and property?
To formulate and place into the type of force to be applied, rather it need only to be physical and psycological, both or need it be lethal. The French commanders have all of these tools at thier disposal.
they are dealing with French citizens and valuable resources as people and then, the protection of the public as well as property. What do you do?
The rioter are primarly young people with various reasons of their own. The primary root cause of their anger is just plain discouragement with their lives in poverty. Feeling shut out of main stream society and related access to good jobs and education, their families do not have the financial resources to support their dreams of a better life and as such,a certain amount of resentment is held against their elders, for their failure.
But, this is a sociol failure that has come to head with mass violence and just shear numbers of persons envolved. How do you handle such large numbers of this magnatude? And then with minimum inflicted injuries upon the active participants, police personnel, and equipment. Just what are they (police units) to do? Sure, they cauld bring out riot vehicles, riot squads with gas projectors and lethal weapons, or, bring in the army. This is good for local civil control, but, not too effective on such a mass scale and distances apart.
Bear in mind also, the eyes of the world now are focused on France. How will this be handled? Will this spill over across our borders (frontier)and what are you going to do to insure this as not to happen? If so, you are responsible for your failures and we will chage you our cost of containment,if your problem crosses our frontier (border).
You must bear in mind that this is some incident that has only recently erupted. But a cause and effect beginning many years back. It has only just come to head sparked by one incident that lighted the fuse of action.
Interesting situation that is not the first for France,but the first on their home turf.
A feeling that is I tend to beleive is shared by the most of us is this: I dont care so much about your problems, but, I certainly am interested in how you handle them.
Charles
