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| French politician: "Islamo-fascists have declared us war" (link in French) |
| 2005-08-03 |
| I think this guy says the things more clearly than most politicians of the Anglosphere. Following is my translation of the beginning of the interview. Remainder at link It would be time politicians stopped saying that everyone is nice and that is just western society who has perverted a certain number of individuals. Bombings weren't the result of this. We are fully immersed in a Stockhom syndrom. But we are not those "bastards" who should "expy" (NDT: for their sins or crimes). This speech I have heard in the mouth of certain heads of government, must not make us forget that we are in a new war, declared by the islamo-fascists (NoT: Yes, he used the word) united under the Al-Quaida label. Their vindication is not religious but politic. They say: "We will set a society who will be at our image", a society, where believe me, woman will not be queen and where it will not be easy to hear mass on Sundays. A country of Westen europe has everything to fear, specially when it has a foreign policy worth to be named. Background: This guy is a former anti-terrorist judge. Presently he is a right wing representive in French parliament and upon the request of the PM (Villepin) has written a report titled "The EU and the fight against terrorism". The interview has been published in Le Figaro Paris conservative journal |
| Posted by:JFM |
| #8 Um, that's 'McClane' /Sorry, the Die Hard movies are my favorites, must defend accordingly... |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-08-03 20:25 |
| #7 Ifn the French do join the party avert yur eyes from the back steps. |
| Posted by: Half 2005-08-03 19:54 |
| #6 "Welcome to the party pal!" - John McLeod, Die Hard |
| Posted by: Domingo 2005-08-03 14:31 |
| #5 France is run by a small elite who attended the ecoles superieur (sp?) It's as if the US were run by Harvard and Yale grads exclusively, not that we aren't close. Average Jean Table Wine has never been as screwed up as his elite leadership. If guys like this are starting to say these things in public, and getting press, I interpret it to mean that the elite has strayed too far from what Jean Table Wine will accept and that they are now afraid of a Le Pen really taking over. So they are starting to break ranks, especially those on the lower rungs who see this as a way to catapault up the ladder. Finally, as Kissinger observed, it has the advantage of being the truth. Let's hope France is really waking up and getting a smell of the coffee. Better late than never. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-08-03 13:01 |
#4  Alain Marsaud I thought their Hungarian Interior Minister was the only one with any gonads... I was wrong... So there is a nativist Frenchman who has gonads against the Islamonutz... Well, with a population of 60,000,000, there had to be... Law of averages... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-08-03 12:12 |
| #3 JFM -- I think that the word you wanted was expiate, where you wrote expy. If only we'd stayed longer in Brussels, I would have had a chance to learn French, darn it! Thank you for the translation -- it is very good to know the French mainstream media is allowing such voices to be widely heard. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-08-03 09:34 |
| #2 Took a long time for the implications of the Battle of Tours, 732 AD to catch up with them, didn't it? Talk about being slow learners. |
| Posted by: Thruper Snesh2876 2005-08-03 09:23 |
| #1 Give this man a ClueBat and let him at the leaders of the West! This is the first time I have seen the left described as having the Stockhom syndrom, and I believe it fits. Good Job. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-08-03 08:50 |