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Rod Dreher asks, "I don’t understand why the government doesn’t deploy the army and shoot rioters until they stop. Philippe Lemoine, a Frenchman, says it’s not that simple."
Excerpt:
"We have let things rot for so long that, at this point, relying primarily on force to restore order would require a degree of violence far greater than what people realize and what is politically feasible.
It's possible to contain a riot using only moderate force when the number of police officers is high relative to the number of rioters, but when riots are so widespread and involve so many people because you have allowed this kind of things to happen for so long, that's just not possible and you have to use extreme violence to make up for the lack of manpower.
I know people on the Internet will say that it doesn't matter and that we should just do it, but the reality is that most of the people in charge are not prepared to use that kind of force and neither would most ordinary people if they saw videos of 16-year-old kids having their brains blown out by cops."
Dreher: "But what if it comes to that, though? What if the only thing that will stop the violence is deadly force? Are the French prepared for that? This is what civil war would be, in the sense David Betz has been patiently explaining for two years or more. This is why Betz also warns people that they should not be under any illusions about what would happen if it did turn into a general civil war, à la Lebanon in the 1980s, or Yugoslavia in the 1990s. “Millions will die,” I heard him say to an audience a couple of years ago.
That we are even having to have this conversation is a damning indictment of the ruling class in France, and all across western Europe. Fifty years of feckless governments of the Left and the Right have brought France to this point. France is also on the brink of fiscal catastrophe; older Frenchmen won’t give up their generous pensions and social services, but France can’t afford them anymore, and the young are feeling dispossessed and trapped in a stagnant economy. Last month at a conference in Switzerland, before the riots started this time, a senior French journalist told me that the mood in his country felt “pre-revolutionary.”
Many Republicans pride themselves on their chess-playing acumen. Dems write a tax increase bill, GOP players write one that doesn't increase taxes, and say, "We'll just checkmate these revolutionaries and WIN this one." Sometimes they do. But Since the Goldwater days, they've been whipped 90 percent of the time. So they study chess tactics harder.
In next three years, the Dems are rolling out an army of tanks. First mission: roll over every chess board and destroy them, leaving the elephants to wander around aimlessly, not knowing how to do politics.
How do we know this? Zoom calls over the last year. The Dems are done with chess.
Kunstler: "Democratic Party election ninja Marc Elias knocked himself out for two years registering new voters by the bale, as in manufacturing them. . . illegal aliens. . . homeless junkies. . . straight-up fictitious persons. . . in order to flood the zone with fake mail-in ballots, that is, in-your-face fraud. And the reason they did it was so ...
"No man is big enough to run this great Republic. There never has been one. Such domination was never intended. Tranquillity, stability, dependability—all are assured in party sponsorship. and we mean to renew the assurances which were rended in the cataclysmal war.”
Warren Harding, July 1920.
