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France is Almost Finished: Why French gov't acts like a traitor to its old allies.
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| Thursday, April 10, 2003
| By Guy Milliere
Posted on 04/10/2003 3:58:38 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Little by little, the French government tries to change its behavior. The smell of Allied victory wafting out of Bhagdad maybe? You can expect Chirac and Villepin to say: we have always loved the United States. We are your friends, no hard feelings... I just hope nobody will believe it in the United States. If within a few days, Chirac and Villepin say this, think about it: it’s ALL about the money. They want to try to keep some of their Iraqi contracts intact. They want the United States to go back to the United Nations where they can again paralyze you with their vetoes and their
counter-proposals.
I'm sorry to say it, but nothing good for the U.S. can come from France now.
Some day in the future this may change, but the French will have to learn their lessons the hard way. They have to feel the pain, unlike the citizens of Poland. The Polish see what they owe to the United States. A little more than ten years ago, they were under the rule of a communist dictatorship and they remember it is thanks to the United States that they were freed from that nightmare. The French people will have to see what a nightmare looks like before you can take their apologies seriously.
Be patient, the nightmare is almost upon us.
Economically speaking, France is decaying, full speed. Unemployment is officially around ten per cent. If you add the people who have never worked and so are not counted for the statistics, and also add the students who study nothing useful, the right number would be way above fifteen per cent. Growth rate is now officially around one per cent, and it includes government activities: if the government component was not included, it would be easy to see that France is in depression. Her population is growing old, and no money is available to take care of the large number of senior citizens in the years to come. The greater part of young people are Muslim, not integrated with French society, and almost illiterate.
In fact, the only things that are growing in France right now are crime and Islamism. Some readers have been amazed by the fact that teenaged girls and young women in many city districts have to wear the Islamic veil if they do not want to be harassed, but it gets worse. A few weeks ago, a young Arab burnt a teenaged girl alive in the suburbs of Paris. He was convicted of murder, but he became a hero and an example for other young Arabs living in the same kind of areas. Two month ago, ten Arab men who raped another teenaged girl in another district were convicted and condemned to spend five years in jail. Yes, just five years. Their families left the court of justice shouting to the journalists it was unfair and they would look out for revenge. Eight days later, the court was burnt down during the night. The teenaged girl and her family have had to leave Paris, and hide in another part of the country.
I have written columns in the French press concerning what’s happening. The response has been death threats, with color pictures of slit throats, anti-Semitic insults. There were Muslims in France thirty years ago, but they were not like the Muslims of today. They were moderate, they did not feel they could wield decisive political power in France, they did not think they were at war against western civilization. Now it’s clear that they think they are at war. Very few people are in jail in France (France does not have enough jails), but more than sixty per cent of the convicts are Muslims, and Islamist imams visit them on a weekly basis. My wife was born in a Muslim family. She’s not a Muslim anymore, and because she left Islam, she risks being killed if she says it openly. My wife’s mother is still Muslim, but she is a moderate, and she’s afraid to be considered a traitor by the much more radical Muslims that are spreading throughout France.
Within twenty years, Muslims will be a majority in France. And if nothing changes, they will be radical Muslims.
The French government takes care of the present: it knows it cannot take care of the future because there is no future. The French government acts like a traitor to its old allies for many reasons: because it has no principles, because it needs money, but especially because it is afraid of bloody riots. France is not a sovereign nation anymore: it’s partly ruled by the mob, partly ruled from the outside by corrupting Muslim tyrants. But don’t worry, France also has no importance anymore: it can still bark, but it’s bite is more like a nip.
France is almost finished. The nightmare is almost here. France has to know the horrors of the nightmare if you want her to have a chance to wake up. Sure, you may find some exceptions to the rule. France has some decent intellectuals: but they have about the same access to the mainstream media that dissenters had in the Soviet Union twenty years ago. France has bold politicians: one, maybe two if I want to be extremely generous. France still has genuine journalists: you could count them on the fingers of one hand. For the next years, come to France if you want, visit old monuments, but do not expect to be understood or appreciated by the locals. Behave as you would in a third world country; soon France will be a third world country. Perhaps it will wake up with a start, but who knows? Right now, if you read the polls, only 53% of the French hope the U.S. army will defeat Saddam: the rest hope the United States will be defeated and Saddam will win...
Do you really want France to have a word to say in the re-building of Iraq after Saddam is defeated?
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To: proud American in Canada
Very true. The Hispanics are actually being integrated just as quickly as were the Irish, Germans, etc.
To: JohnHuang2
Just a couple of days ago, the Iman of Ottawa declared that it was just to go to Iraq and kill Americans.
In his "official pronouncement," he did say that Canadian Muslims should not kill Americans on American soil... but one wonders what he would say off the record.
To: AAABEST
My how times have changed. Once there were popes that would stand up to the evil of Islam. If the Islamists werent raping and plundering the holy lands we wouldnt have launched crusades.... But anyway, once they would fix the problem, now they are content to ask people to skip a meal to share the suffering of the muslems during Ramadan.
To: JohnHuang2
Mon Dieu!
We don't really think the frogs are actually going to get their come-uppance here do we? Please. Chirac will be dumped and disgraced and the real bastards, the french, will go right on with their duplicity and debauchery in the full good graces of the Real World Order ... as if nothing ever happened.
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:42:59 AM PDT
by
mercy
To: mercy
G'morning, friend -- great to see ya
To: Grand Old Partisan
And thousands of Francophone African "refugees" are pouring into Ontario and Quebec. But don't tell the socialist Canafrancians this. They'll just call you a Canada basher.
V
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:44:42 AM PDT
by
Beck_isright
("QUAGMIRE" - French word for unable to find anyone to surrender to)
To: mercy
Don't be angry at the French. Pity them!
To: JohnHuang2
ISSUE: Should France, Germany, and other "axis of weasels"
countries receive taxpayer dollars to help with the rebuilding
of Iraq?
We don't think they should... and many in Congress apparently
agree.
U.S. Reps. George Nethercutt (R-WA) and Mark Kennedy (R-MN)
introduced an amendment recently to the FY 2003 supplemental
spending bill that would insure that American taxpayer dollars
will not be spent to contract with firms in France, Germany,
Russia and Syria for the rebuilding of Iraq. The measure
passed by voice vote.
"This amendment sends a signal to our allies that we appreciate
those who support us in our time of need and remember those
that have sought to thwart coalition efforts to defeat Saddam
Hussein's regime," Nethercutt said. "The coalition of the
unwilling should not participate in reconstruction with U.S.
tax dollars."
Unfortunately, this amendment was already defeated before in
the Appropriations Committee, and it could still be removed
when the bill goes to a conference committee with the Senate.
We need to make SURE that NO taxpayer money should go to
anyone in the "coalition of the UNwilling!"
ACTION ITEM: "This is an important step," said Rep. Kennedy.
"As we move forward, we must look for ways to help reward those
who stood with America in liberating the Iraqi people."
"Partnership requires a willingness to jointly shoulder the
burdens of international leadership," Rep. Nethercutt stated.
"If other nations are willing to join with the Coalition of
the Willing, as equal partners, their support will be welcomed.
But those that seek to undercut the Coalition at every turn
should understand that our patience is not unlimited."
Go to the site below to send all of your Congressmen a personal
message, asking them to support the Kennedy-Nethercutt amendment
to prevent those who opposed us most vigorously in the war to
liberate Iraq from getting taxpayer dollars:
http://www.conservativealerts.com/040903.htm AOL GO HERE
NOTE: Please be sure to forward this e-mail to everyone you
know that wants to make sure that no "axis of weasels" governments,
like France and Germany, will receive taxpayer dollars to help
with the rebuilding of Iraq. Thank you!
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:45:08 AM PDT
by
Sherri
To: Beck_isright
There's a distinction to be made here. The Christian Africans integrate themselves just as well as do any other immigrant group.
To: JohnHuang2
Coming soon to your neighborhood theater; Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:48:11 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(Further, the statement assumed)
To: Grand Old Partisan
Yes, but the Muslim Africans do not.....
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:48:31 AM PDT
by
Beck_isright
("QUAGMIRE" - French word for unable to find anyone to surrender to)
To: Grand Old Partisan
The Hispanics are actually being integrated just as quickly as were the Irish, Germans, etc. You're speaking directly from your anal orifice. Your profile doesn't show what state you're from, but I can tell it's not Texas, Florida, California, or any other border state.
Your statement gets "Horse$*** Quote of the Day" award.
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:49:03 AM PDT
by
AAABEST
To: Grand Old Partisan
"The Hispanics are actually being integrated just as quickly as were the Irish, Germans, etc."
If you lived in Florida, you would change that tune quickly.
V
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:50:48 AM PDT
by
Beck_isright
("QUAGMIRE" - French word for unable to find anyone to surrender to)
To: Beck_isright
There you go again sharing a brain with me. Have you found a tenant yet?
34
posted on
04/10/2003 4:53:55 AM PDT
by
AAABEST
To: JohnHuang2
To: AAABEST
No luck yet. The market is way down. I think more of these people need to experience the pains Florida is enduring absorbing all of the illegals from Mexico. Central Florida (in the ag areas) looks like Nuevo Laredo or worse in some places.
V
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posted on
04/10/2003 5:17:58 AM PDT
by
Beck_isright
("QUAGMIRE" - French word for unable to find anyone to surrender to)
To: AAABEST
Your venomous tone masks your lack of historical perspective. You should read about how millions of Americans worried that the Germans, Irish, Slavic, Jewish, etc. immigrants were not assimilating into American society. In fact, a major political party -- the Know-Nothings of the 1850s -- was founded upon fear that the Irish and Germans were not assimilating. The measure to watch is whether US-born children of Hispanic immigrants learn English. The answer to that is definitely YES.
As in France, our problem is that we are not having enough children, creating a vaccumm that the immigrants are filling. The difference is that our immigrants are assimilating relatively -- repeat, relatively -- well. The immigrants in France are Moslems who hate France.
I'd be glad to continue this dialog, but only if you refrain from using insults.
To: AAABEST; Grand Old Partisan
"You're speaking directly from your anal orifice. Your profile doesn't show what state you're from, but I can tell it's not Texas, Florida, California, or any other border state.
Your statement gets "Horse$*** Quote of the Day" award."
and your statement gets the award for the reply of the day that demonstrates a thoughtful, reflective reply designed to encourage a polite exchange in the marketplace of ideas. /sarcasm off
To: Grand Old Partisan; AAABEST
and before anyone points it out, I realize that my reply will get the award for most awkwardly-phrased post. ;-)
I wish they had a modify feature on these posts! :-)
To: Grand Old Partisan; AAABEST
"The measure to watch is whether US-born children of Hispanic immigrants learn English. The answer to that is definitely YES."
That's very true. New immigrants, especially, WANT their kids to learn English and to succeed.
The lure of the U.S. is too strong, we can't stop immigration. The key is to ensure that immigrants from the South are invested in American culture. Make the majority disagree with the La Raza types.
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