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Posted on 03/30/2007 10:48:25 PM PDT by Enfant Terrible
Slightly edited Google translation of the original French
Conservative French Presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday evening accused rivals Ségolène Royal (socialist) and Francois Bayrou (centrist) of being "on the side of the rioters”, shortly after the violent incidents violent at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. “When I think that two candidates in the presidential election dared to take the defense of an individual known for 22 offences, who is allowed to defraud and not to pay his ticket in the train, who, once challenged, allows himself to strike civil servants who were only doing just their work with honesty and in all legality, who starts a riot with hooligans who wreck a station, who smash bus shelters!."
"Those who take the side of the rioters and the defrauders do not render them a service. They are not even generous because it is not to render service to a minority when you let people believe that in French democracy anything is permitted”, continued the candidate. “It is necessary to impose rules, it is necessary to impose laws, we need authority and we need respect”, added the ex-minister of the interior. “And now things are clear: the authority and the respect are on our side, while disrespect and support for the delinquency are on the other side!”
The president of the UMP [...] called upon journalists "not to call these hooligans 'youths', because 'youths' have nothing to do with this minority of hooligans”...
"Reports say that the hooligans who smashed the Gare du Nord train station were shouting my name. They are right. They do not regard me as a friend. I confirm: I am not their friend”, added the candidate of UMP to the Elysee.
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I like "radical Jihadists", but what do I know?
Its a shame that the U.S. is void of conservatives like him.
Ewwww...
Liberals "speak truth to power," Conservatives "speak the truth," got it? ;)
Yeah, I was thinking if they don't want him maybe we'll take him
Regards.
Cant' wait for the Rosie O'Duncehead analysis.
http://hooliganinc.net/ these hooligans?
Check out Sarkozys comments on the private ownership of firearms and you'll find he makes Sarah Brady look positively reasonable.
That being said, he would be a huge improvement over Chirac.
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Of course you are right. I was being a bit tongue in cheeck. Still it's pretty direct talk on this subject for a polititian much less a Frenchman.
Sadly there are leading contenders on the American "conservative" side that hate the personal ownership of firearms as much as any leftist.
Regards.
Would you please explain to me just what the term "speaking truth to power" means? It sounds like a Jesse Jackson made up phrase.
It is a term used by Sandalistas on US college campuses which, translated into English, means
"behaving in such a way that you deserve to have the snot beat out of you and then hiding behind your own skirts because you are so unjustly persecuted--and then high-fiving yourself and masturbating yourself into a frenzy over your own moral superiority once you have returned to your own echo-chamber liberal enclave",
or
"bisawtydthtsbooyathbyosbyasupathfyamyiafoyomsoyhrtyoecle"
for short.
Cheers!
Sarkozy is "conservative" only by French standards, not by American standards, and if elected he will be trapped in all the constipations of French dirigiste administration. But at least he lacks the knee-jerk anti-Americanism of most French politicians.
Democrats are always on the side of the perps. They are skilled at making victims out of perps by twisting facts.
There's another guy to the right of him running, Sark's still the favourite, though, even over the Socialist.
The European press is really worried, he's like the Fred Thompson of France.
"Truth to power" = my use of irony, as I'm sure you know, since you're smart enough to read Free Republic.
Seriously though, the French media and political elite skew much further left even than the Beltway. When Sarko speaks out like this, the French left falls into a fit of rage and starts calling him "fascist" (but without the quote marks).
To the poster who criticized Sarkozy for his gun control beliefs: France unfortunately is not blessed with our Constitution (and its amendments). But we'll be better a lot better off with Sarko as President than another idiot socialist. He won't exactly be able to make France into our ally, but at least he can dampen down the active campaign of sabotage against US policy they have been running for the past 40 years or so.
I'll take notice when he calls them "enemies."
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We could use this guy here to deal with our own "hooligans"...Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Kerry, et al.
I like that!
Guns or no guns, that's short, sweet and direct.
You don't get much of that in Europe, let alone France.
As the recent famous line in France, "Speak beautifully and do nothing" is the standard.
Maybe not anymore. Go Szark!
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