Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Second Night of Rioting in France

In the wake of Sarkozy's sweeping election victory on Sunday (which saw the highest level of voter participation in 40 years), socialist supporters took to the streets to protest the results. There has already been widespread property damage; some 800 cars have been destroyed be fire.

So here are my questions: What's "progressive" about setting other people's cars on fire? What's so "enlightening" about causing widespread property damage and having no respect for the rule of law and private property rights?

Let's flip the script: suppose the conservatives were the ones who'd lost this election. Would we be seeing these same types of protests from them?

1 comment:

Joe said...

France.

Could Germany just go ahead and invade them again?