Posted on 06/27/2006 11:30:32 PM PDT by Bangupjob
Given the kinds of cases they’re getting these days, French courts are starting to resemble clown circuses.
Last week a French court had to listen to “Goldfinger” George Soros’ whine about his human rights being violated for an inside trading conviction. This week, a French court gets to listen to Venezuelan “International Man of Mystery” Carlos The Jackal carp about not getting enough terrorist-issue Froot Loops inside his French jail cell. Apparently, pate and champagne aren’t happening for him these days in Paris. And for the Shagadelic Jackal, that’s no fair.
The Austin-Powers-era Marxist terrorist is actually suing in a French court over what he says is unequal treatment for international terrorists, not against ordinary criminals or compared to UN human rights standards – but against other, less-worthy, but more news-o-genic terrorists.
What The Jackal wants to know is why he gets a lousy jail cell in France while unshaven rag-bound Islamofascist terrorists get the luxury treatment over in U.S. terrorist detention centers in Guantanamo. For the Jackal, it’s not fair! After all, didn’t he once shoot up OPEC meetings and kidnap and kill as well as the newer whippersnappers? Why should he be jailed and forgotten like a criminal while newer terrorist whippersnappers get all the attention?
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HuH? This article is in no way barf-worthy. It's pretty good.
Apologies to the Legion. It's not your fault your government is infested with gutless wonders.
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Thanks.
I meant that just the very topic of the Jackal (especially of him whining) is a barf alert.
What a puke!
Okay, a "barf alert" is when you post an article that is blatantly leftist. From wikipedia:
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Welcome to FR, dawg.
Thanks, Gordon.
The most decorated unit in the French Army....The Foreign Legion< Now there's a surprise./p>
The smell must be aweful!
What's he complaining about? Carlos gets his Koran and he even got to marry his sweetie in jail. She was originally his attorney and she converted to Islam to marry him; the French govt was very obliging about the whole thing.
I believe Hugo Chavez even got to visit Carlos in jail after Hugo was "elected" dictator. The two correspond, and Hugo has mentioned carrying one of Carlos' letters with him for inspiration. Sounds like Carlos is doing just fine.
It's never enough for the Jackal, he always wants more, more, more! The Jackal isn't just ANY International Man of Mystery!
No need for that. Legionaires are non-French volunteers fighting for the French. Mercenaries, in other words.
It's not really their government, it's just their employer.
Jerry Lewis as the Jackal! Still working on how to fit Dépardieu into the script. But running low on cheap brandy and Gauloises, need a backer. Toute de Suite!
The motto of the FFL:
The Legion is our Country. The FFL grows its own food, makes its own wine, retires men to its own farms, and in many ways is a "nation within a nation."
I'm stunned to know he's still alive. What I'm even more stunned about is his ability to be heard from. Don't they have maximum security prisons over there where you just go away? No one comes in and you never get out, you know, that kind? If half of what he is supposed to have done is true, he needs to be "away" for a long, long time as in FOR-EV-ER.
Il n'y a pas d'honte être français. Il y a seulement l'honte dans rester de français.
(There is no shame in being French. There is only shame in staying French.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
In the early 1980s I had occasion to be hanging around bars in Africa frequented by Legionnaires, in Djibouti and N'Djamena. While most of them were foreigners, there were a number of Frenchmen among them. I met one Brit, who had been a member of The Parachute Regiment. He found life there rather tame, and when his enlistment in the British Army was up, he went to Marseilles and joined the Legion. He had been in Beirut in Oct 1983 when the heathens blew up those 241 Marines and fifty-some French paras. He was liaising between the Legion and the Marines there.
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