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posted by n1 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the with-them-or-against-us dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:48PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:48PM (#264923) Homepage Journal

    that can be military service but doesn't have to be - a friend of mine at CERN was able to do his national service by working on an experimental physics collaboration in the US.

    I would like to see national service in the United States. From time to time a president will float the idea but nothing ever comes of it.

      When I was fifteen, I myself spent the summer of 1979 working for the Youth Conservation Corps, using hand tools to clear brush that would otherwise be a fire hazard, also building a nature trail. That was only eight weeks but something like that for two years just after one has graduated highs school would go a long ways towards making our young people feel like they were part of America (or some other country) rather than simply entitled to a college education.

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