All is calm, all is bright.

45,000 cops were mobilized throughout France on New Year’s Eve and 1,137 cars were burned, 16 cops injured, and 549 arrests made during the night.

French Minister of the Interior, Brice Hortefeux, concluded that the night "went on calmly, with no major incidents."

As one commenter on the newspaper Le Figaro’s story observed:

If 1137 cars are burnt and 16 gendarmes wounded by gangs of thugs, and the night is regarded as calm, how do they envision a night that is not calm? Do you have to burn the entire country and kill all the gendarmes?

Thus French political leaders approach the problem posed by violent African and Muslim minorities -- with denial. No problem exists, calm prevails, no further action is necessary.

"45,000 Police Deployed for New Year's Eve." By Tiberge, Gallia Watch, 1/1/10.