Paris is not Baltimore

Contrary to the impression of some American news media, Paris is not an armed camp.  Compared to New York, Washington, Baltimore, or any other American city, where hardly a minute passes without the appearance of a police car on the street, the “forces of order” in Paris are remarkably low-profile.  One of the most notable features of Sunday’s mass rally was its pervasive calm, without the intimidating presence of militarized brigades that typically patrol gatherings of such scope in the U.S.

The politics of security are ultimately right-wing politics, playing into the hands of Marie Le Pen, who would like all French Muslims to pack up and go back to Araby, and Benjamin Netanyahu, who would like all French Jews to pack up and hie to Israel. With both the largest Muslim and the largest Jewish communities in Europe, France is bound to experience the social conflicts that originate in the Middle East. The French government does whatever it can to protect its citizens from violence, of course, but terrorism experts know that there is no perfect defense against fanaticism.  Madness, especially when suicidal, will always find a way through defenses created by sane people.

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So far, France has not succumbed to the right-wing impulse to protect society by tightening the social fabric, à la Patriot Act.  It remains to be seen whether this admirable resistance to liberticide continues after last week.

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