Rue Adolf Hitler ?

It has been done.
Adolf-Hitler-Straße, Mühlhausen, Elsaß, 1941-1944.

It is now back to its old name, since Liberation.

Rue du Sauvage, Mulhouse, Alsace
Wildemanngasse, in English Wild Man Street.

Our dear German friends never realised they were being open ridiculed, once again.

L'insolente nation ! (William III)

"We are reminded the French have a soft spot for cop-killers"

Oh and you wouldn't:

http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/2005/PR41733.25tolife.061905.html

Add to that a soft spot for an "armed militia" free to vent their frustrations in crowded shopping malls (how many so far this year? How many killed in the French riots?).

As for the Abu-Jamal reference, that would include many Hollywood actors and other prominent figures, a much less marginal group than a few French communist deputies behind this brilliant idea. Towns in Italy and Germany have also honored him (what happened to the case by the way?).

Mr. Zmx, an avid headline skimmer, drops by with another incoherent "dark America" post.

To contend that we have have a soft spot for cop killers (the attentive reader will recognize that we do not) Mr. Zmx posts a link to Senator Schumer decrying a cop killer video game. Exactly to what point does that speak? Last we checked privately owned commercial video game makers (or Hollywood actors as a class) are not offical government bodies (or official government representatives) authorized to express the ethos and values of the people. Such a distinction is lost on Mr. Zmx.

Then he exonerates French honors to cop-killers by invoking unspecified similar honors in Italy and Germany. France, of course, takes her lead from others. If others err, well, who can blame a France that merely follows.

Then he makes a vague reference to an "armed militia" shooting up shopping malls. We are unaware of any militias spree-killing in American malls. Or perhaps Mr. Zmx doesn't know the difference between a militia and a lone gunman.

He asks how many Frenchies have been killed in France's annual race riots. One that we know of, that would be Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, who died November 7, 2005 after being attacked November 4 by encagoulés. It is sad Mr. Zmx does not closely follow French news and must query us for information about his compatriots.

We do know the recent rioters are armed, that 130 French police have been seriously wounded this go-round, several with GSWs, and the French police themselves believe these rioters are ready to kill. We also know that great big NYC with 1 policeman for every 217 residents hasn't experienced the violence of little Villiers-le-Bel with its 1 policeman for every 27 residents.

We know these things because when we look into something we do a little more than skim headlines.

But here is something we don't know, who is it that is blowing up the people of Paris?

DGB

So it is OK for you to make wild generalizations about "the French" but God forbid, don't you dare do the same... Typical of you but what's new?

No, there aren't serious crime issues in south L.A, Philadelphia, Detroit to name a few. Damian says so (or at least he won't acknowledge it). It's all part of the "dark America" propaganda by the forces of Evil (lead by France, bien sûr).

The "armed militia" reference is of course a take on the second amendment of the Constitution and which apparently gives you some kind of sacred right to carry an assault weapon, "just in case".

Speaking of which:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071209/ap_on_re_us/missionary_shooting

M. Zmx having posted a sloppy comment comes back to try to clarify what a well-thought-out comment would make unnecessary.

But M. Zmx's clarification is as sloppy as his original.

First, it is not a wild generalization to draw attention to recurrent riots by the same disaffected French underclass. The newspapers and wire services do as much.

As for American cities, we just checked the wire services. No stories on pandemic riots with police being targeted. And no stories of massive police deployments boosting the police per capita to 1/27 in American towns or cities. Whatever the crime problems in America's big cities they do not approach the civil unrest or require the massive police presence found in France's small towns. To read M. ZMx's remarks you'd hardly think anything amiss in France. Not a feather out of place.

An armed militia is an army organized of ordinary citizens. As we have already pointed out no such militias have been reported shooting up the malls of America, which is just how Mr. Zmx characterized the current situation in America.

Mr. Zmx then posts another diversionary skimmed link from some crime blotter, as if, were it the purpose of this post, we couldn't match with equally gruesome French crimes.

The one thing Mr. Zmx is not keen to comment on in his comments is the posted topic itself: French police desperate to quell cop shootings under what Mr. Zmx's own president has called a voyoucratie. Perhaps Mr. Zmx -- who like Then-Jack approaches the recent civil unrest among France's underclass as a sort of image problem -- should take his complains about generalizations to his own president.

DGB