-- - Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change, UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
France is 'on the verge of a civil war' which could be sparked by a mass sexual assault on women by migrants, intelligence chief warns
France is on the verge of 'civil war', the country's head of intelligence says
Patrick Calvar said mass sexual assault of women by migrants may start it
Believes situation so tense another terror attack could also spark backlash
More than 1,000 women sexually abused in Germany on New Year's Eve
Mr Calvar, 60, warned there is evidence that radical Right-wing French groups have been massing arms in preparation for their own attacks on mosques and synagogues.
-- - Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change, UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
You do it. I do it. He does it. She does it. Everyone engages in profiling — continually.
For example, if you see a bunch of rough-hewn young men walking down the block and you move to the other side; if you patronize the deli with the clean-cut guy behind the counter and not the one with the tattooed, body-pierced, greasy-haired Greenwich Village retread; or prefer a 50-year-old school bus driver for your child to a 22-year-old one, you’ve engaged in profiling.
How about when a mother would choose a 17-year-old girl to babysit her child but definitely not a 17-year-old boy because most child molestation is committed by males? Is that fair? After all, just as most Muslims don’t engage in terrorism, most young men don’t molest children. But life’s not fair. And anyone who thinks a profile is invalidated simply because most members of the group in question don’t conform to it, doesn’t understand profiling.
-- - Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change, UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
Tourists from China are avoiding France amid surging violence and crime.
President of the Chinese Association of Travel Agencies in France, Jean-François Zhou, said “increasingly violent” thefts and assaults are turning France into “one of the worst destinations for foreign tourists”.
Mr. Zhou, a representative for major Chinese travel agency Utour in France, reported a steep decline in visitor numbers from Asia, and said many tourists are now looking to Russia as a less dangerous holiday destination.
“In 2016, there were 1.6 million Chinese tourists compared to 2.2 million in 2015. The number of Japanese tourists dropped 39 per cent, and Koreans 27 per cent. Our tourists have turned to Russia, which is less attractive but at least it is a safe country. For Putin, it is an economic windfall”, he told Le Parisien.
-- - Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change, UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
Machete-wielding man slumps to the ground after being shot in the stomach at the Louvre museum as he attacked French soldiers while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’
-- - Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change, UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.