French riots

[zapjb]

So what? That doesn't make it moral, right or palatable.

[j2k4]

So what? That doesn't make it moral, right or palatable.

Precisely so, but that is regretfully beside the point.

Remember that thread during Katrina where the old saw, "you practice the ethics (or morals, rights, what-have-you) you can afford" was recalled?

Bingo.

Analogously, shots aren't pleasant, nor is chemo-therapy.

Shit happens, even in France.

[Rat Faced]

Management should be able to fire people, if there is a reason to fire them.

The Law that they are trying to bring in though, will allow management to fire someone if management got out of the wrong side of the bed that morning. Thats just wrong.

You cant go from one extreme to the other, when both are equally unfair... you have to go somewhere in the middle. Some places have 40% un-employment over there, you cant expect them to not protest the Government.

The riots are started by a small minority, however as has happened everywhere else (eg: USA and UK) police response can turn a small scale riot into something city wide.

Can i remind you of the late nineties and the anti-capitalist protest in the States? Started by a few, developed into a huge riot that gave the Police a PR nightmare.

[jetje]

the companies nowadays are like a plaque of giant grasshoppers. They wear out their employees and when the company has improved their benefits with a few 100%. They ask more and more of their employees. If the employees ask for something in return, like a stable and sure income for their hard work nowadays firms threaten to leave to a lower salary (read third world) country.

In my best believes their should be some kind of balance between the two, if people work hard they should earn a decent salary and should get some kind of work insurance policy. it's a two way road. Nowaday firms are todays vampires they use people up and throw them by the trash if they are getting older (read more expensive). It's justified that governements protect the employees in these fights by making laws. My suggestion would be a boycot of every firm that wouldn't sign decent contracts.

Mangment of big firms are in general pocket filling assholes. They don't care about people, just themselves and the double percentage of profits counts, pleasing their shareholders is their only goal, so they can collect their giant biljon dollar bonus.

Anarchisme is great in these batles. Vive le revolution!