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2006-10-23 Europe

French Republican Value: Disarm Yourself for Self Defense

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-23 08:12|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What. An. Idiot.

Posted by The Doctor 2006-10-23 08:52|| 2006-10-23 08:52|| Front Page Top

#2 If you are assaulted by an armed burglar, hell use his weapon more effectively than you anyway

Memo to burglars: You might not want to bet on this. I get out to the range regularly.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-23 08:53|| 2006-10-23 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 The easy rebuttal to this is that the French police can't even protect themselves from criminals, how do you expect them to protect anyone else?

Even if every home had a policeman living there, he would still be gone half the day doing his work somewhere else.

Every homeowner should keep two butcher knives: one to kill the burglar with, and the larger one to give to the dead burglar as a going away present.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-23 09:22|| 2006-10-23 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Someone needs to give that jerk an up close and personal introduction to the meaning of the word "bitchslap." France's judiciary is totally corrupt, the police can't even protect themselves, and the average citizen is simply screwed. Sarko's a bastard who would fit right in with the Democratic Party. If we EVER give our guns up here we'll be in worse shape than France.

Democrats, listen up: the call to confiscate guns will absolutely, definitively be the Fort Sumter of the second American Civil War because it's very easy to see exactly where that policy would lead. DON'T START DOWN THAT ROAD!

Posted by mac 2006-10-23 09:49|| 2006-10-23 09:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Nicolas Sarkozy will piss his French panties if he hears a story getting lots of play coming out of Cincinnati this morning.

Details are sketchy for now but this much is known: A guy getting ready to go to work goes out to warm up his car in the driveway. Owner goes back inside his house while the engine is running & warming. A thief tries to steal the guy's car but before he can make his get away the car owner comes out of the house and shoots. Thief is dead.

No names have been released. No further details are known at this time.

Developing....

(Consensus opinion here at the office: a lesson in deterrence has been delivered and no charges should be filed against the car owner. This explains why the French intifada will continue unabated but would have a short life span in the USA).

Posted by Mark Z 2006-10-23 10:22|| 2006-10-23 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 If the criminal is not armed and you are and you shoot, your life will be ruined, because killing someone over a theft is not in line with the republican values that are mine.

NB: If *YOU* do that *YOUR* life will be ruined, because's not in line with *MY* ideals.

Anyone else see the disconnect there?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-10-23 11:58|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-10-23 11:58|| Front Page Top

#7 painted by the left and part of the MSM as a rampaging fascist.
Why do leftists use "fascist" as a pejorative? They're both collectivist jerks.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

Posted by Leonidas 2006-10-23 12:05|| http://fightingintheshade.blogspot.com/]">[http://fightingintheshade.blogspot.com/] 2006-10-23 12:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Why do leftists use "fascist" as a pejorative? They're both collectivist jerks.

This is the result of the HUGELY successful ideas war waged by the commies during and after WWII, IE painting the leftist nazis (racist, purely german phenomena) as "fascists", and those "fascists" (non-internationalist/nationalist socialists denying the class struggle and seeing the Nation as an organic entity led by the tin-helmet Fearless Leader) as "right-wingers".

This set the intellectual trap of labelling anyone opposing the Forces of Progress as "rightwiners", thus "fascists", thus "nazis" (AKA the True Evil). This is so true in France, where this has been the very favorite tool of intellectual terrorism, and is in large part responsible for the lack of any actual conservative force here (remember, if you're conservative, you're a rightwing, thus you're a fascist, etc, etc...); the Reductio ad Hitlerum in all its Glory.
This is very rich, considering the fathers of the french résistance were mostly drawn from the right, and that the "french" communist party was a collaborator party until the Barboressa operation. In fact, the commies were on the ennemy side during every war since WWII included, in 1947 the commie dockers beat on the wounded soldiers coming back from Indochina, sabotaged weaponry like they did in WWII,... in 1954 they were enabling the algerian national-arabists,... in 1990 they opposed the GWI, and nowadays, they're in bed with the islamos (at least the party brass, about half of their voters are as wary of immigration as the rest of french).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-23 12:24|| 2006-10-23 12:24|| Front Page Top

#9 ...but the answer is in the efficiency of the police

From everything I've been reading lately, the French cops can't even protect themselves...

Posted by tu3031 2006-10-23 12:28|| 2006-10-23 12:28|| Front Page Top

#10 I thought he was the only hope for France. Now we see his true thoughts. He's definitely not the one to lead them out of the woods.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-23 13:56|| 2006-10-23 13:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, he's comparatively less statist and more atlantist than the mainstream french pol (to the point of being labelled as an US-stooge, "Bush's poddle" as the commies called him after his NYC visit, some kind of, Oh Horro!, a "libéral", Ie a free-market advocate, which is of course a very bad thing)... so in that regard he would be the least worst choice, he would probably manage to keep the System afloat by applying some pressure here and there...

Still... he's basically a young shiraq, I think. anyway, the socialist will most likely win, I dunno.

"Sarko Does Not Like France!"

"I Want A New State..."

"The Machelon Report"

"Appraising Sarkozy"

"Multiple, Colored and Spiced" (this one is particulary revealing, I think).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-23 14:11|| 2006-10-23 14:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Anyone else see the disconnect there?

That was the one which stood out like a sore thumb. Saying how, "killing someone over a theft is not in line with the republican values that are mine." is tantamount to "l'etat c'est moi."

Pure eliteist bullshit, through and through.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-23 23:47|| 2006-10-23 23:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Both Stalin's and Mao's boyz were shooting at our warriors even as we were trying to help them fight and survive against Nazi Germany + Japan.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-23 23:51|| 2006-10-23 23:51|| Front Page Top

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