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The Washington Post reports:
Hollande is expected to put forward a bill this week to extend a state of emergency for three months, enhancing police power to restrict freedom of movement and gatherings at public places.
At Versailles, he also proposed constitutional changes that would allow authorities to withdraw French citizenship from people with dual nationality, even if they were born in France, and to prevent French terrorism suspects from returning to France.
(Emphasis added.)
I feel this would be unproductive; among the problems Europe has long faced is that the children and even grandchildren of immigrants feel unwelcome in the nations of their birth: I understand there are some European countries in which birth does not convey citizenship. President Hollande's proposal would dramatically exacerbate the problem and so give rise to further terrorism.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday November 18 2015, @07:51AM
"Effective"* politician strategy: "We have to do something. This is something, so let's do it."
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* if one isn't in public's mind enough time, then one is dead as a politician
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @08:40AM
Actually, this is called "The Politician's Fallacy"! So you do win the internet for the day! And, Jonathon Pollard. Traitor.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 18 2015, @09:32AM
You mean Politician's syllogism [wikipedia.org], perchance?
Unfortunately, it's no longer a subject of satire today; as the majority of populace won't recognize a fallacy (logic has been banished in school long ago - replaced by teaching to the test), it therefore became a valid strategy for the astute politician of the present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 18 2015, @09:53AM
Perchance. Someday, the liberal arts will return to education, after the Republican arts have been tried and found that Joseph did not build the pyramids to store grain. Stupid is self correcting, or at least self-Darwin-Awarding. We need to lengthen the spawn cycle.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jimshatt on Wednesday November 18 2015, @01:01PM
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 18 2015, @01:33PM
Oh, but it is. Granted, it make take some generations but, as Rome wasn't built in a day, it wasn't destroyed in a week either.
I spite of "the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health", once they stepped on the stupidity cycle, the Roman Empire was bound to extinction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Wednesday November 18 2015, @10:40PM
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 19 2015, @12:43AM
That's an axiom, not a conclusion.
At individual level, you are right, be it only because of stochastic variations.
At statistically large ensembles of individuals and given enough time, some dynamics start to emerge.
I promise that someday, just for the heck of it, I'll plug in some Lotka-Volterra eqs, assuming stupidity and wisdom are competing and are "infectious" via social/environment influences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 18 2015, @01:15PM
Unfortunately, education is a system in which positive feedback dominates (statistically, dumbed-down teachers guarantees a stupider next generation, including stupider nextgen teachers). I'm afraid we are experiencing the beginning of a negative turn - it is not impossible for the entire species to self-Darwin-award.
It's indeed a pity humans are limited by nature to procreate first and accumulate experience/wisdom later in life. The reverse would arrest the downward branch of the positive feedback above, by eliminating stupid before reproductive maturity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford