.So the US Ambassador to France was there [Jane Hartley] which was more than enough.
This was a grass roots movement, a real one and not one funded by some dick of a billionaire who just wants "moar". The politicians suddenly felt the need to show up, but they were nor really needed in the first place. They all have run off somewhere to decide how to make us safe by putting the military on the streets and in schools. No doubt the security services are putting their budgets forward for more and better oversight of everyone's email in-boxes.
Lot and lots of knee jerk "security measures" will be immediately proposed but heaven forbid actually tackling the root causes. You know things like austerity, economic inequality and social exclusion. Fuck actually thinking let's put more people on the streets with guns.
Oh let's ignore how many foreign wars we are involved and how many of the "enemy" we have collaterally damaged, lets just look strong and determined. Let us get the people used to seeing uniforms all over the place so that when the extreme right come to power, nobody will notice the bloody difference.
France will have more than 10,000 soldiers mobilised on home soil by Tuesday, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Monday, amid heightened efforts to beef up security and track down possible accomplices in the wake of the deadliest terrorist attacks in France in half a century.
The deadly week that saw four attacks in three days
Earlier, the Interior Ministry said nearly 5,000 police officers would be deployed to guard Jewish schools and places of worship.
I'm with Charlie and I am getting near to a dangerous level of snark build-up that I may even wax satirical at some point.
PS what about protecting Muslim schools and places of worship?