LAW & ORDER IS FASCISM
And Name-calling Is Rude, You Fascist Pimple!
ACT-UP POSTERS EQUATE SARKOZY WITH FAR-RIGHT'S LE PEN
PARIS December 20, 2005 (AFP) - Black-and-white pictures of Sarkozy with the words "Vote Le Pen" have sprung up on walls around Paris since the weekend, stuck there by militants of the AIDS activist group Act-Up and another group [scil., 9ème Collectif de Sans-Papiers] lobbying for illegal immigrants to be given residency papers."The poster shows the extent of our anger towards Nicolas Sarkozy," a spokesman for Act-Up, Eric Labbe, told Libération newspaper.
Recent polls show Sarkozy -- who is also chief of the ruling conservative UMP party -- to be one of the most popular politicians in France and a frontrunner for the presidency.
It is a little baffling to the non-French why the French rabble takes such exception to being called "rabble" (raicaille) by its Interior Minister. This has been translated in the English press as "scum", which, though not a glowing epithet, is hardly the worse that can be served up. Sarko's detractors pretend disgust and appear to have reinvented the meaning of this word, or, if not its meaning, its targets as the below headline attests.
FRENCH CELEBRITIES DESERT SARKOZY
IN WAKE OF ATTACK ON URBAN POOR
PARIS December 23, 2005 (Guardian) -Until waves of rioting and urban violence broke out in France's grim high-rise city suburbs, Mr Sarkozy, a member of Jacques Chirac's right-of-centre government, appeared to be winning friends and influencing people across the political spectrum. ... Then he visited the notorious suburbs north of Paris - known as banlieues - and vowed: "The louts will disappear - we will clean this estate with a Kärcher." Kärcher is a make of high-pressure hose used to clean buildings. Some felt the minister, known for tough talking, had gone too far. The comedian Muriel Robin told a chatshow: "For a guy to use words like Kärcher makes me feel bad." ... The tennis player turned pop star Yannick Noah, actor and comedian Jamel Debbouze, who starred in Amélie, rapper Joey Starr and film director Luc Besson...are among those attacking Mr Sarkozy, who has been compared to far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and Napoleon. "Calling people racaille, I've not heard anything so violent since Le Pen and his hatred of anyone who is different," Besson told the film magazine Premier.
First, we'd like to point out that Sarko's "attack" was not on the urban poor. It was against urban thugs and louts who make comfortable livings preying on the urban poor. Next, we never suspected that French thugs and louts were so, well, delicate and tetchy. Finally, who would have guessed French politics turn on the opinions of comedians, footballers, and know-nothing celebrities? Bereft of celebrities, Sarko is left with no one but the majority of common voters.
In its editorial, Le Figaro said: "It's not a fashion, it's an epidemic. It's impossible to turn on the television or radio without hearing a singer, actor or sportsman railing against the interior minister." Despite this, the paper noted that opinion polls showed that many French people agreed with the minister. And it pointed out that Mr Sarkozy could still count on Gérard Depardieu for support. Whether that will sway the voters in 2007 is anyone's guess.
Our guess is that the French public can tell the difference between a hardnosed politician and a couch full of fainting celebrities.
Sarko's political demise and waning popularity and supplantation are as frequently reported as his political indominability, his political triumphs, and his many political resurrections.
PFFT (What is this?): Criminal element very upset 3 | Rayonnement français 0
I saw this article in the Washington Times today. Can't find it to link to, sorry, so will post some of the article. It is from Reuters.
NICE, France--An anti-immigration French group has found a way to keep its Christmas charity from feeding homeless Muslims by serving free hot soup containing pork, which observant Jews and Muslims do not eat.
....head of the small ultranationalist group "Soulidarieta" ... disputed accusations by protesters that what he called his "patriots' soup" was meant to exclude Jews and Muslims.
..."I don't see why I should not be able to put pork, which has always played a major role in my country's cuisine, into a traditional soup that I want to distribute, admittedly, to my compatriots and European homeless people," he said.
...When he launched his soup kitchen early this month, Mr. Lescure said he wanted to help "our least fortunate blood brothers....in this hour when the black tide of demographic submersion and free-market impoverization is rising."
After reading this story, I am reminded of something I read about the friction between German Jews and Russian( and/or Eastern European Jews) that occurred in NY in the early 1900's. It seems that the German Jews, who observed less dietary restrictions than their Eastern brethren, wanted to “discourage" the Russians from coming to a hospital run by the German Jews. They did this by serving shellfish at every dinner, which the Russians Jews would not eat because of the dietary restrictions.
I guess nothing ever changes....
Bonjour,
@Andy
Le premier satellite Galileo vient d' être mis en orbite après un lancement réussi de la base de Baikonour (Russie) !!
Victoire pour Galileo !!!
Vive l'amitié France-Russie !!!
PS:Vous pouvez vous garder la Turquie pour l'ALENA...
Good luck for your country in Irak and in Bolivia !!!
Le premier satellite Galileo vient d' être mis en orbite après un lancement réussi de la base de Baikonour (Russie) !!
Been there, done that. Yes, the 3.6 Billion-euro “common agricultural policy of the sky”. It’s still a long way until 2008.
Jacques Barrot, the EU transport commissioner, said Galileo would be used in car navigation systems, air traffic control, tracking dangerous cargoes and for many other purposes. Maybe you should start using it for buses.
Vive l'amitié France-Russie !!!
And don’t forget those BRITISH companies that helped….
PS:Vous pouvez vous garder la Turquie pour l'ALENA...
Turkey? Heck, after the switch
is made, we won’t care about Turkey!
Good luck in the suburbs!
Good luck in getting unemployment rate down!
Vive l'amitié France-Russie !!!
Friendship with VVP? Ha-ha-ha. Good luck. Oh well, I guess France is used to being friends with dictatorships.
@Carine
Bonjour,
Comique de la part d'une yankee !
Il faut vous rappeler vos amitiés pour:
-Sukarno
-Batista
-Videla
-Strossner
-Le Shah
-Banzer
-Norriega
-Pinochet
-Les khmers rouges
etc ,etc
Et maintenant vos embrassades avec les immondes Saoudiens ,votre régime de terreur au Kosovo et en Irak
etc ,etc
Vos discours à géométrie variable sur les dictateurs on s'en moque ! Les Russes sont des frères et nous sommes de plus en plus nombreux à vouloir une alliance totale avec eux...
Vive l'amitié France-Russie !
Vive Galileo !
Good luck for your country in Irak and in Bolivia !
"Les khmers rouges"?! Poooooooooor little moron!
And about Pinochet: Chileans are grateful to Americans for having replaced the Allende dictatorship (comrade Allende was BTW killed by Cubans). He's a patriot who 3000 fascists (i.e. commies) in 30 year, as Allende killed more in 3 years.
Well, that's 2 in your list, do you want me to carry on with the others? Anyway, if you want a country which supported all dictators and keep on doing so with the few ones still alive, your is the good one: only in the 20th century, Lenin & Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Arafat, Khomeiny, Khadaffi, Saddam, Castro, Obassanjo, Duvallier, Allende, Bocassa, Mugabe, Houphouët-Boigny and all the African dictators (all socialists), except South Africa's Aparthied regime (the only one not socialist, that may be the reason).
Those are facts, wanker. Do you know this concept, reality?
AntiBrits/Antiyankees,
1. I'm not a Yankee. Not yet. Malheureusement, je suis née française.
2. Ah, l'axe Paris-Berlin-Moscou... Nostalgie, nostalgie. Will be thinking of you the day Gazprom demonstrates what "l'amitié France-Russie" really means.
An unknown Pol Pot chose to study engeneering in a free country and join the PCF, so what?
It's no secret the US' actions in Cambodia left the door wide open for Pol Pot. It's also true that the US indirectly sponsored the Khmer Rouge because of certain diplomatic associations and their common enemy, Vietnam. Yet I will admit that claiming the US "supported" Pol Pot's later atrocities is a stretch.
Khomeni was an unknown cleric and a legal resident in France before the revolution (and so was the the Shah's wife after the events). By the way, Marcos was given the red carpet in the US and was even buried there after he looted his country while holding one of the worst human-rights records on the planet, you tell me which is worst.
The US supported African dictators as well, don't fool yourself. With a name like yours, McCarthy, you know very well that the US - from Idi Amin to Marcos - turned a blind eye to bloody world despots as long as they were not commies, until it became obvious such an association was no longer tolerable. The US, as well as France, both have a long track in this regard. Nothing to do with "socialism" by the way, if you even knew De Gaulle, Pompidou and Giscard's political leanings.
As for "supporting" Trosky, Lenin and Stalin - besides having a few "fans" in France and in Europe - once again you're don't even know what you're talking about.
Bonjour,
@Carine
La France fait moins d 'affaires avec Gazprom que Cheney ou Carlucci avec l' Irak sous botte américaine:une vraie démocratie l' Irak américain ,ce n'est pas comme la Russie de Poutine pas vrai ?
Good luck for your new country in Irak et in Bolivia
@Mac Carthy
Bonjour,
Votre pseudonyme ,comme vous le fait remarquer Zoomerx ,démontre votre grand sens démocratique et pas du tout fasciste pour le coup !
Zoomerx a tout dit : Pol Pot était un simple étudiant en France et pas le tyran sanguinaire que les USA ,grand donneur de leçons démocratiques ont soutenu...
Et la faculté de Montpellier ce n'était pas votre "Ecole des Amériques" au Panama avec méthodes de torture etc comme matières au programme...
La France a soutenu des tyrans ,certes ,mais elle ne se pose pas en perpétuelle donneuse de leçon démocratique au Monde comme les USA avec leur sinistre bilan...
La France a toujours appliqué le réalisme en politique étrangère
.Vous avez méconnu cela en Irak et vous vous cassez les dents comme au Vietnam :inutile de nous tenir pour les responsables de votre stupidité. ,le "moron" de l'histoire c'est bien vous !
Good luck for your country in Irak and in Bolivia !!!
La France fait moins d 'affaires avec Gazprom que Cheney ou Carlucci avec l' Irak sous botte américaine:une vraie démocratie l' Irak américain ,ce n'est pas comme la Russie de Poutine pas vrai ?
C'est vrai, c'est pas comme si l'Irak était comme, je ne sais pas... la Tchétchénie par exemple. Quant à Gazprom, qui vivra verra. Quoi qu'effectivement, ce n'est pas sûr que la France arrive jusque-là.
@Carine
Bonjour,
1)Vous n'avez peut-être pas remarqué que la Tchétchénie est un territoire russe et l' Irak n 'a jamais été une des étoiles du drapeau US ? Non ?
2)C'est curieux vous dites combattre l 'islamisme ,mais quand il se manifeste en Russie vous semblez l'aimer ?
3)Vous aimez tellement l'islamisme,les yankees ,que quand il n'y en a pas vous le créez de toutes pièces (Afghanistan et maintenant Irak )
4)En fait yankisme et islamisme sont deux faces d'une même pièce nuisible à notre Europe.
5)Enfin on ne peut que se féliciter que vos révolutions bidons ("Orange","Des Roses" etc ) montrent ce qu'elles sont (des manipulations visant à installer des fantoches corrompus à la solde de Washington )et échouent lamentablement.
VVP semble reprendre la main et un Français fier de son pays ne peut-être que rempli de bonheur...
Good luck for your new country in Irak and in Bolivia !
