No we aren’t talking about the French in 1763 or 1815 or 1871 or 1940 or 1954 or 1962, in this case we are speaking of political capitulation. Only Tuesday we discussed the reaction of French youngsters to a new labor law passed by the French National Assembly. Under this new law, employers would be encouraged to hire French youth with a stipulations that such employees could be fired within 2 years at the discretion of the employer. Naturally, this move has been viewed as a threat to the French Social Model of entitlement, stagnation and complacency. In the intervening period French student protests have become more vocal and more violent. The French populace has been engrained with the concept of socialism since the days of the Paris Commune in 1871. The concept that a worker must prove his or her worth to an employer is a foreign concept to say the least.

As we predicted Tuesday, the French have now capitulated. Though officially, the French President, Jacques Chirac has only called for dialogue to discuss the new employment bill. The word dialogue, however, is a French euphemism for appeasement, just as the government did during the Muslim riots last fall. Unfortunately, France has long been governed by mob rule, those disaffected with the rule of law simply abandon it at their leisure, venting their frustrations through street violence and general chaos and as what generally happens in France the government seeks to placate the mob, whatever the cost.

“…public necessity can be proclaimed by a mob as well as by a government.” – Horatio Seymour, 1863

This in and of itself is a form of appeasement. The architects of mob rule, clearly realize that their strategy works and with each success they are further emboldened, ensuring that the cycle of violence will continue.
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