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The French election thread - 3,000 cops deploy in Paris
2007-05-06
The French polls prolly close around 2 or three o'clock Rantburg Daylight Server Time (RDST). France has made itself a very hard bed, now comes the time to lie in it. Let's keep it civil here, our French posters have been very tolerant of our barbs and jabs, and I for one value their involvement and viewpoints, and wish them and their country well. Wake up France, it is time to light the beacon of liberte once more. Liberte of conscience, liberte of thought, liberte to vote for someone other than a socialist for once in your jaded lives. :)

Vive la France.
Posted by:Seafarious

#12  No Pasaran has riot video
Posted by: Frank G   2007-05-06 20:09  

#11  Good thoughts, Seafarious. The French voters have done their part. Time spent gratuitously insulting the French would be better spent ensuring the election of a capable commander-in-chief in our next elections. Thanks to all from France and elsewhere who take the time to contribute and help us understand what is going on around the world - without the MSM filters.
Posted by: ryuge   2007-05-06 18:40  

#10  
Hot dog!

According to BBC, Sark's gonna win with about 53% of the vote.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2007-05-06 14:15  

#9  #8 'moose - I do NOT want to know how your mind works!
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-05-06 11:23  

#8  Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

Separated at Birth?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-05-06 09:59  

#7  To the barricades!
Posted by: Shipman   2007-05-06 09:48  

#6  The France has too many similarities to Estonia these days to treat it as a coincidence.

FR is mobiliznig to resist the islamist aggressors, while EST the russian aggressors who came not as refugees but as occupants.

Upon victory of Sarko, riots are threatened - while on May 9, the communism fans (mainly russian) inside and from outside EST are mobilizing to overthrow the existing EST government, emails circulating about armed resistance these days.

Question is, has it always been better to observe the things from a distance (or collaborating like naive Chamberlain with treaty signed with nazi Germany in 1936-40) until the double trouble is imminent. It has been easier to silently observe, indeed, just with a cost of solution being multiplied and solution shifted into future.

Another question is, how riots in France (I am 99% sure that they will be triggered) will shadow the unrest and russian imperialistic acts in Estonia.
Posted by: Nesvarbukas   2007-05-06 09:32  

#5  Being British, I cannot say we have done any better in confronting domestic islamism. In fact, in some ways I am more optimistic the French will show a firm hand when the time finally comes.

That said, France has a long history of grotesque antisemitism - in England this is limited to the chattering classes in the media, the universities and old guard Tories - which prevents them from siding with Israel. And French notions of gloire continue to see unilateral intervention in Africa and elsewhere and a simple-minded opposition to the Anglosphere at all points. Frankly, if the French can only decide to get out of the way at the UN this will be an enormous improvement.

And I would, of course, whole-heartedly and enthusiastically welcome a France which decided to side with democracy and human rights and with arm force when necessary. The Crusades were born at the Council of Clermont in France. Were a new Crusade to be declared in France it would make up for all prevarication and obstruction that have ever been born there.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-05-06 08:57  

#4   3,000 cops deploy in Paris

just the beginning of Sarko's police state and barbarity

/Royal rant
Posted by: Frank G   2007-05-06 08:41  

#3  Well said, folks. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Hey! Could this be a turning point for the Islamic Crusaders?
Posted by: Bobby   2007-05-06 07:50  

#2  I will be up watching the Euro coverage live. I'll post any comments here.

I've never had a problem with the French people, but its political class. Guys like Chirac, who would probably be in the pokey if he weren't president from corruption charges from his Paris mayorship, to Villepin, who's never been elected by the people to anything.

The police and counterintelligence units are first rate, and there's been a lot of cooperation on that level between the U.S. and France.

Any indignation I had over those first two individuals, and France, evaporated when Sarkosy had the stones to call a spade a spade during the suburbian riots.

France will vote tonight for a sea-change or a continuation of its current course.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2007-05-06 07:16  

#1  If la belle France has had the wisdom to elect Sarkosy, it will be the first truly significant indication of a national will to survive. The Gallic legacy of artistic achievement, culinary transcendency and scientific endeavor is well worth preserving, but it first and foremost must be done by the French themselves. Such an effort will require shaking off several decades of collective delusion and adversarial posturing which has done great damage both internally and abroad.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-06 05:07  

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