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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and REALITY

2011-09-01T02:41:00.005-04:00

This is an interesting article from a local law enforcement officer:

As the horserace for the U.S. presidency ominously looms on the political horizon, I would like to share the following:

This is from a law enforcement officer, I implore everyone with a brain between their ears and a heart beating in their chest to resist the urge to succumb to the cheap rhetoric spewed by crooked politicians pandering for votes instead of being the statesmen and stateswomen they vowed to be. Let me get this out of the way from Jump Street here, I am neither a Republican, nor a Democrat. Neither party has lived up to their ideals in a way that would allow me to support either as such. I tend to be a both a realist and an idealist who – call me crazy – believes in what America stands for and in the U.S. Constitution.

FACT: Politicians really don't care one way or the other whether illegal immigrants have driver's licenses
-Why would they? They have chauffeurs and government issued cars, police escorts etc. They would not suffer personally if hit by an unlicensed driver.

FACT: Politicians don't care one way or the other whether you live in a safe community

-Why should they? They don’t live in your community, never have, and never will. They don’t want to live next to you, poor shmuck. Your daily life is inconsequential to them as you don’t contribute to their PAC in amounts sufficient to warrant their interest.

FACT: Politicians don't care about the law
-Why should they? They can get away with most things short of murder…they do not seem to have a problem with graft, corruption, bribes, embezzlement, influence peddling, theft etc. etc. etc.

FACT: Politicians beat up on illegal immigrants because, they don’t vote, don’t contribute to their campaigns and a stroke of a pen on a new law makes them look like they “did something” without actually doing anything. It’s win, win, win across the board.

Don’t be fooled, politicians care about one thing and one thing only: getting re-elected. And if this means that thousands of people in their state, on their streets drive without a license, because they have to go to these jobs that you won't do...and crash into you, they won't have insurance, you won't get compensated...well so be it! I still haven't been able to wrap my head around what's the danger posed by people driving with a driver’s license...quite the contrary, I always thought, from my rookie days in the academy up until now, that the purpose of the license was for us to be able to identify drivers, collect the issuance fee for the state (The true reason for early licenses) and, to ensure safety as passing a test became a requirement, and most applicable to me, make sure we had the driver’s names spelled right on tickets...Little did I know, nor was it explained to me in 22 weeks in the academy, that depending on your immigration status a driver’s license could become dangerous…

I still don’t see WHY?. Then there was September 11, 2001, where terrorists hijacked planes to commit the unthinkable and politicians hijacked a tragedy to justify all the excesses imaginable. So the terrorist card was played. Driver’s licenses could be used by terrorists illegally in the country to board airplanes… granted , it COULD have happened, but in fact, that DID NOT happen…Well, there again, in order to board an airplane WITHIN the United States, all you need is a valid passport from your own country, no visa needed, unless you’re coming from OUTSIDE the U.S. Your embassy will issue you a passport regardless of your U.S. immigration status. Why would they care about the U.S. immigration status of their citizens? Of course, the fact that the 9/11 terrorists had valid student visas and were in the U.S. legally was soon lost on everybody as the anti-immigrant rhetoric started to heat up. Those guys had plenty of Saudi money to pay for flying school lessons and padded bank accounts that showed they could support themselves for the duration of their stay in the U.S. And now, with fake documents becoming increasingly sophisticated, with bribery of DMV employees becoming more common, the well-funded terrorists have no trouble getting license. Heck, in order to completely bypass the bogus issue of illegal immigration and IDs terrorist organizations are actively recruiting natives of their target countries, including U.S. citizens.
Don’t get me wrong, I know firsthand and for a fact that DHS has done an excellent job at busting terrorist cells, networks, funding sources here in the U.S. and abroad. Still, I haven’t seen them haul terrorists from the line at a meatpacking plant, digging holes on a construction site or washing dishes at the local Ruby Tuesday. All jobs, I’m sure, you’re preparing your kids to take in the event those evil lawbreakers are “sent home”.

People will probably come down on me and say, “The law is the law, what part of illegal don’t you understand, they have to go home etc. etc.”. Well, let’s apply the law to those perfect citizens we claim to be. I’ll ticket you every time you won’t signal for a turn, follow too close, drive even one mile per hour above the speed limit, I’ll ticket you anytime at a red light or stop sign your front wheels even touch the white line, I’ll make your life a real treat sticking to the law, after all, the law is the law…no more prosecutorial discretion from me, no sir, no ma’am, I’ll treat you like…an illegal alien maybe?

Politicians conveniently omit to mention that being in the country illegally is a civil offence, not punishable by jail, much akin to a speeding or parking ticket… So what about the proportionality of punishment? I was taught that this was the guiding principle of our administration of justice system.

Why does a drug pusher get a couple of months in jail for selling weed while a responsible person such as Mr. Chacon Diaz, married to a U.S. citizen, who recently saved a child from abduction in Albuquerque, NM would have to spend 10 years away (under current law) from his wife and family because he remained in the U.S. illegally for more than a year?

How about we apply the same standard to similar offenses in the penal code? Let’s try this on for size: Let’s see, your kid gets popped for petit larceny, for swiping a baseball cap or a CD at the mall. So instead of some community service and probation, let’s exile your kid from you for say oh…10 years… Or let’s see, you speed 20 miles over the limit and you get pulled over. Ok, no ticket, you’re going down, you get booked, processed, incarcerated for a month or two, have to bond out and wear a monitoring bracelet until your court date. Once convicted, no fine, oh no sir! Because, the law is the law, right? What F*()&*(&!G part of ILLEGAL did you not understand when you got behind the wheel and pressed your lead foot on that pedal? Let’s see, we confiscate your car, we exile you, ten years, no soup for you! No more drivers’ license for 10 years, for a simple, misdemeanor civil offense… It’s drastic isn’t it? So, I’m excited now, what are we going to do to the burglar? ; To the cocaine dealer? Do we get to hang them? Decapitate them? Roast them over a bonfire after public lapidating? Wait a minute! That sounds like Afghanistan under the Taliban…are we wanting to create here the same conditions we are wasting the lives of our brave young soldiers fighting there in that very country? What have we turned into? What is our society becoming? Do we really want to be ruled by the spiritual descendants of the people who cheered under a tree while looking at a lynched body as their political base is a winning strategy for the long run and for the country? How soon will we have people out there advocating that illegal immigrants be lynched upon discovery since they “ cost taxpayer money”,” steal people's jobs”, drive with or without driver’s licenses !?” “Get drunk “and speak Spanish?
Maybe the Geo Corporation of America can come up with an artificial tree with limbs gua-ran-teed not to break under the average Mexican's weight. Maybe they can come up with a special colorful non-staining rope....that they can sell to the government for the modest price of a million bucks a piece...
If we continue sliding down this slippery slope, we will end up with another civil rights movement we really don’t need whose effects will adversely affect generations to come. Let’s not revisit the past on this.

Since the state I work in stopped issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, I know of no more than a handful that have stopped driving altogether. What I have seen , are more and more sophisticated attempts to conceal their identities, more lies, more fraud, corruption at DMV offices, in short, it’s bread more crime. No politician will come out and say they were wrong though…when have you seen that happen? I have seen countless people pulled over who thought they would be deported because they didn’t have an OL and acted nervous, even fled on foot. I have seen people get into a car accident and run away like hell leaving a trail of blood behind and unattended victims. What I have not seen, is a single politician helping at any of these scenes. They seem to be content with trying to get rid of police officers and firefighters to “save money”… Yeah, what a waste having the guys in blue willing to take a bullet for you or willing to run into a burning building to save a stranger…can’t think of a worse way to spend public funds…

A perfect example of a non-issue is the attendance of illegal immigrant at colleges while paying FULL TUITION there. What a great idea, have those highly trained ICE agents running around college campuses looking for illegals…Why? Because they want to get an education and pay for it? Get a good job maybe? Give me a break!
So at that point, the unemployment argument usually surfaces.

How about the 9% unemployment rate we are now facing? There are plenty of unemployed people. You are darn right about that. One of the many facets of the unemployment issue is the mis-match between the unemployed and the available jobs as well as the issue of pay.

An unemployed web developer is not going to go clean toilets or pick tomatoes. No one can blame them for that, nevertheless, toilets still need to be cleaned, lawns mowed etc. etc.

If you were born in this country and feel that you are in competition for jobs held by illiterate, uneducated, non-English speaking people, well at some point you made the WRONG choices in your life don't you think? Time for some introspection and taking some personal responsibility for your miserable life instead of blaming “others” don’t you think?

If some illegals are going to college and you as a US born individual are not, then again, maybe you screwed up along the way, made wrong choices or just were plain LAZY.

I love this Carlos Mencia skit on this topic:
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?title=english---the-mencia-way&videoId=23437

So funny and so full of truth at the same time.

Stop crying that illegals are taking your job and get off your butt and go learn something.

Many employers, some of whom are friends and family members will tell you, there are virtually no native born workers (even 1st generation children of immigrants) who will take physically demanding, low skill jobs and stay with them. Employers will tout the work ethic of their immigrant employees, the fact that they work days, nights, holidays, weekends reliably and without much complaint. Kind of like what your grandparents did… No matter the wage. I have seen illegal workers laying brick for $1000.00 a week. That work is backbreaking, dirty, dangerous and exposed to the sun, the rain, the wind and the cold. Well, that’s not a bad wage, heck that’s more than what I make as a local law enforcement officer! Still, why do you see Salvadorans, Mexicans, Guatemalans etc. doing this and no U.S. born worker? The wage is good, the work plentiful, the skill easily acquired... Is it because employers like to hear Spanish spoken on their job sites? Is it because Mexicans beat up native workers on the way to work to get their jobs? Is it because $1000.00 a week is not a living wage for an uneducated person? No, of course not! It’s because in order to ensure that native workers will reliably show up for work to do that, you’d have to pay twice as much. The only problem is that we are capitalists. That damn rule of supply and demand…We are not willing – nor able – to pay twice as much for our houses or commercial buildings, therefore, we have to be happy with employing illegals who are glad to come to work day in and day out to do the job without whining and complaining for $1000.00/week. It’s because we don’t want to get our hands dirty and come home with a backache to the point that we will work for less at another “white collar” type of job. Nevertheless, until we can come up with smart bricks that will lay themselves, someone is going to have to do it.

We’ve turned into a bunch of overprotected, demanding, selfish crybabies…that is partly why illegals have stepped in to do a man’s job out there… shame on us!

Many unemployed highly qualified people in their fields tragically can't find jobs matching the kind of income they expect for the skills they have and the skills needed for the particular business. That's how civil engineers with 25 years of experience are unemployed while a recent graduate of a civil engineering program will be inundated with offers. Companies would rather reduce their overhead to maximize profits by paying lower salaries. I heard they call that capitalism and someone mentioned the principle of offer and demand....Top Republican (anti-immigrant) sacred cows. What does have to do with illegal immigration?

Let’s move on to the “illegals don’t pay taxes”.

How are illegals not paying taxes? About 85% of them earn a paycheck, from a business that employs them. I yet have to see a paycheck without state and federal income tax deductions. Boy, how do I sign up for that program? When an illegal buys something in a store, I have never seen that: "undocumented sales tax exempt" special checkout line. When illegals rent an apartment, part of their rent goes to local taxes doesn't it? Just like for anyone else. If they buy a house, again, I have never seen that particular exemptions for illegals to pay their property tax. The IRS will even issue illegals an "Individual Taxpayer Identification Number", ITINs, for them to file their taxes with; which many do as they too, like to receive their tax refund check. I guess the only ones escaping income tax, are the ones who are paid in cash, but in that case I ask you, who is the criminal? The one who accepts compensation for their work? Or the one who circumvents the law by paying them under the table?

You'll say, but they consume more services than they pay for etc. etc. I agree, especially because of healthcare costs for their U.S. born children. Well, think a little bit. Why do they use emergency rooms as their primary healthcare provider? Could it be because government regulations are such that affordable health insurance is not available for their employers to provide? So in fact, the employer who attracted them to this country in the first place, is being subsidized by our tax dollars by pushing their employees to use emergency rooms as their primary physician. Nice!

Furthermore, the party that pushes anti-immigration ideals is also the party of trillion dollar corporation bailouts with YOUR tax dollars, so we can support the country club lifestyles of their executives. This worries me a lot more than the cost of educating illegals who pay out of state tuition at the local community college. Anyways, don’t worry about those politicians whose every word you hang on, once out of office, they’ll be sitting on the board of a large corporation near you. While you (and me) poor saps that we are, will still be struggling to pay our bills, pay our mortgages and taxes, make ends meet and see our family cut back while the politicians and their corporate cronies are doing just fine.

I'd rather illegals be in school, paying out of state tuition, than end up in immigration detention which costs the US taxpayer $20,000.00 plus a year per detainee, without figuring the cost of law enforcement, prosecution and trial at the federal level. Did you know that a majority of immigration detainees are held in private prisons? Paid for with YOUR tax dollars? Passing immigration reform is not good business for those businessmen in government...so that's why they don't want to hear about it. Let's have more of those $10.00 an hour badly trained, understaffed private prison guard jobs with crappy benefits in your community. They sure dangle that job carrot around to the public and local officials. Those jobs contribute marginally to the local economy. The only fat contributions are those from the corporations to the local politicians campaign's so that they get those low-bid prisons built (by illegals, to cut cost ironically) , so we can transfer more of our tax dollars from the "in the red “ public treasury to the "in the black" private corrections' business' coffers.

Did you know that the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law was WRITTEN and LOBBIED for by none other than the Geo Corporation of America, a leading provider of private immigration detention and monitoring in the US? Isn't that an interesting business model? One that hijacks the democratic process makes a mockery of justice and allows former government officials and politicians to make bank by playing on peoples fear, ignorance and hatred. Not exactly what our founding fathers envisioned.

Do you really think that chasing illegals on college campuses is a good use of our tax dollars versus looking for criminal aliens? As I said earlier, I am a local law enforcement officer, and I have seen many times the help of ICE being requested to issue a detainer on a suspect in custody only to be told that they had no manpower to come down to the jail and take care of it or that the suspect wasn't important enough to warrant that, well, if charges can’t be lodged against the suspect, they have to let them go within 72 hours pursuant to the Constitution we are sworn to uphold. Recently in an adjoining jurisdiction, a murder suspect was released from jail because charges against him did no stick. ICE was begged to send someone to come and re-instate the deportation order and issue a detainer, to no avail...
The case was weak, as no witnesses to his crime would come forward, mainly due to their fear of police and being deported, compounded by the lack of physical evidence, he was released. The suspect had been deported in 2007 and re-entered the U.S. subsequently. Boy would I have wished that instead of messing with college students or unlicensed drivers that end up in lockup, they would have come for this guy!

I really don't see what would be wrong with the following:

• Allow people who pay a fine for entering illegally, just like you pay a fine
for similarly classified crimes, and
• Learn English, and
• Have a clean criminal record, and
• Have a JOB and,
• Have strong ties to the U.S. such as legal relatives.
• Coupled with a realistic, workable LEGAL immigration system allowing for the
educated,talented AND the needed unskilled to come to the U.S.

-To become legal residents and have the opportunity to apply for citizenship after 5 years-

I also firmly believe that the burden of punishment should be shifted from the guy trying to make a living to feed his family and staying out of trouble to the employer who is employing illegal aliens. Instead of weak civil fines, employers should be subject to criminal charges and penitentiary time. The employment of illegals would come to a screeching halt. But you see, businesses contribute to political campaigns and their owners vote. Illegals contribute no money to campaigns and can't vote, therefore, they are the ideal patsy.
I am not advocating letting ALL illegals stay if they meet those conditions. I would stand for a standard that would mandate that anyone illegally in the country convicted of a misdemeanor or felony not classified as a strictly traffic violation misdemeanor (to the exclusion of DUI/DWI) would be ineligible for admission as a legal immigrant and shall be removed from the country when apprehended. Someone who has paid taxes for years, has built strong ties to the U.S., has stayed out of trouble, has learned English and has a job should be afforded the opportunity to make their case for legalization after payment of a fine. There was such a provision in the law, called “Section 245(i)” that allowed illegals who could meet those requirement (save the English and having a job addition) to pay a $1000.00 fine on top of immigration processing fees and obtain their papers provided they had an employer that sponsored them through the stringent and cumbersome U.S. Department of Labor Alien Labor Certification process or had a relative that sponsored them in one of the categories set forth in current law. This law was allowed to expire in April of 2001. I would be for doubling, even tripling the fine and using that to train unemployed current workers, build schools, roads, invest in R&D, and support our export industry, lower taxes or whatever else that would benefit the country.

Heck, with millions of individuals already in the U.S. who could potentially qualify for that and have to pay that fine that would be a nice chunk of change.
Jobs are mostly what attract illegals, with family ties in the U.S in second place. Not much else. Illegal entries at the border have diminished by close to 50% since the economy has been swirling at the bottom of the world toilet. Any border patrol agent will tell, you that it's not a coincidence.

You will say, oh, they just need to come here legally. Well the sad reality is that for most, there is no legal avenue available to them to come legally. There is this great little cartoon touching on that subject: http://reason.com/assets/db/07cf533ddb1d06350cf1ddb5942ef5ad.jpg

The solutions to illegal immigration will always be complex, multifaceted and a partial one. As long as we have strong economy, an open society and remain the beacon of the free world, people will want to come to this country. We should see this as strength, not a weakness.

Some solutions to the problem won’t be approached by sleazy, demagogic, gutless, politicians. Those solutions would include a more realistic immigration system. The byzantine antiquated 1965 system we have is broken and does not meet the needs of our economy and society. The current system only allows for 5000 unskilled workers to immigrate to this country per year, through a stringent, cumbersome asinine process far removed from reality or its purported goal of protected U.S. workers. This is ridiculously small for a nation of 300 million plus stretching over 3.5 plus million square miles. Fixing the immigration system is only ONE PART of this, the other parts are to punish employers who do not perform due diligence in employing a legal workforce with criminal, not civil sanctions once a realistic, workable legal avenue to bring in legal workers has been put in place. The other part is to actively look for prosecute and deport criminal aliens efficiently. Placing more border patrol agents on the line is also crucial to abating the problem. There will never be zero illegal immigration into the U.S. lest we turn the greatest country in the world into a shithole like North Korea.

What about those radicalized candidates for the presidency?

Your local pizza joint owner running a government? because after all, government is just a business right? Everything is fine as long as we can balance the books, make a profit and maintain the credit rating. See, whether you run a pizza joint, or just a plain "joint", the same principles apply right? You see where I'm getting at with this?

We don't need more businessmen in governemt, having them there is only good for THEIR business, never the people's business. The current economic crisis has been caused, let's not forget, by irresponsible business practices at the government level, by de-regulating to the extreme, by crazy financial ponzi schemes, because, people in government with a business background thought they could make an endless profit with wind.

The current economic crisis, let's not forget, wasn't caused by people on medicare, it wasn't caused by illegal immigrants, those are colorful rattling dolls they agitate in front of you like you would do to a baby to make them stop crying. The current economic crisis was caused by Harvard educated businessmen in smart suits as they tried their hand at governing.

Will we find it in ourselves to select courageous politicians who will do the right thing regardless of the latest opinion polls?

We need honorable, smart, courageous, capable STATESMEN. But how can we elect such people into office if we are not being ourselves smart, courageous, capable citizens? There's no shortage of business people in government, and they have taken us down the path we are on now. What we don't have is STATESMEN in government. Our current president, with all due respect, is a sorry excuse for a statesman. The Republican field for the presidency with people like Brachman and Cain who are ridiculously unqualifed to run a country isn’t much better. ? Your local pizza joint owner running the free world? Come on! Those two are just a repeat of the same greedy idiots we've had in the past.

Where are the likes of Colin Powell's, Ricardo Sanchez', John McCains of the world? Why can't they be president? Because these businessmen have either disgusted them out of running for office or plain destroyed them to make sure they wouldn't get there, because, even though they were good for the country's business, they would have been bad for THEIR businesses.

Unfortunately, the Republican National Committee has shamelessly sold their soul to their corporate country club golf playing friends. And the Democratic National Committee is paralyzed in destructive internecine disputes over who they should pander to most.

Stop being blinded by sleazy politician rhetoric, hatred and ignorance. Open your EYES and THINK.

We need leaders who will do the right thing even if it means making a tough political choice, people who understand that running a country is not like running a corporation, profit is not the endgame. Liberty, justice and prosperity are the goal here.

Immigrants who brave great perils to come to the U.S. to clean your toilets, wipe your little prodigy’s butt, mow your lawn, build and clean your house, wash your car, wash your dishes, pick your food, cook your food, move your furniture, paint your house, and yes, sometimes rescue your little girl from the clutches of a rapist...Immigrants who overcome great obstacles to feed their families, have guts and a desire to better themselves are what we need in this country, way more than sleazy politicians.

When was the last time you arrested a criminal illegal alien? I can say that I did that just a few hours ago…

Just a few thoughts from a cop on the streets.

EXILE MY WAY ou la chronique d'un exil reussi

2010-09-28T01:42:00.001-04:00

EXILE MY WAY OU LA CHRONIQUE D’UN EXIL REUSSI

Je vais vous faire part de mon histoire d’exil. Vous jugerez de son succes selon vos propres criteres. Pardonnez mes fautes et deplorable grammaire, je suis le produit de l’Educ Nat fin XXemme et n’ai pas fait preuve de diligence a la pratique de la langue de Voltaire depuis 15 ans, mea culpa. En contrepartie, mon anglais et espagnol dois-je dire sont sans aucun reproche.

LE POURQUOI DU COMMENT:

Epris d’une clairvoyance hors du commun depuis un tres jeune age, environs dix ans, j’ai fait part de ma volonte d’exil a ma chere maman. Celle ci m’imposat les conditions suivantes: partir tu ne feras point avant d’avoir 18 ans et un Bac en poche. Je dois vous dire que le fait d’avoir ete eduque en large partie par mes grandparents m’a donne une perspective sur la France contemporaine assez differente de mes petits camarades de classe. Depuis petit, je revais d’etre….eboueur, (J’aimais leurs camions, puis policier ou pompier). A 13 ans, un voyage en Angleterre m’ouvri les yeux a une autre pensee, a 14 ans, je decouvrais les Etats Unis et pris la decision de m’y etablir.

Il me semblait crucial apprendre la langue de Whitman ce qui me conduisit a etudier l’anglais en dehors du Lycee. Car c’est bien connu que nul n’apprends une langue au Lycee. Mes projets etaient regulierement moques par les copains et proches qui n’y voyait qu’une obsession aveugle pour “L’Amerique”. Faisant fi des critiques doutes, et autres moqueries, je maintenait le cap et redoublait meme mes efforts.

Les profs de Lycee etaient en guerre totale contre mes ideaux et ne loupaient pas une occasion de me le faire savoir. Les classes de philo, histoire-geo et autres “sciences humaines” n’etaient pas tristes avec certains profs qui puaient le petit bourgeois tout en clamant faire partie de la mouvance “communiste revolutionnaire”.

En effet, j’ai perdu quelques points de moyenne en faisant remarquer a ma prof de philo que pour une “communiste revolutionnaire” elle en avait une belle berline Volvo flambant neuve, la communiste [ alors que ma mere se trimbalait dans une Fiat vielle de plus de dix ans].

Ca ne m’a pas valu des faveurs non-plus quant je refutais les dires des manuels d’instruction de l’Educ Nat en ce qui concernait la Segonde Guerre Mondiale ou les Etats Unis avec des faits vecus et des verites non-dites qui n’etaient pas au programme en plein cours.

Etudiant l’anglais a mes heures, entre deux et quatre heures par jour, je lisait la presse internationale en anglais, je lisait tous les livres en Anglais qui me passaient sous la main, j’ecoutais “Voice of America Europe”, je regardais tous les films et programmes tele en V.O. disponibles avant la popularization des antennes satellites et de l’internet, je passais un mois par ete aux U.S.A apprenant a connaitre cette grande nation. Tout ceci me valu de parler mieux l’anglais que la prof de terminale…encore un point de contention.

Sitot les resultats du Bac general annonces en juin, et les conditions de mon contrat oral avec ma mere reemplies, sitot je m’inscrit a un programme d’echange pour passer un an aux U.S.A et y arrivat en aout, sans pedre te temps. C’etait le 13 aout 1995 que je m’etablis definitivement aux U.S.A. a l’age de 18 ans. J’avais déjà pris mes jambes a mon cou bien avant que la situation ne degenere en France au point ou elle en est dans l’actualite. Une republique pre-islamique neo-moderne. On est pas tres loin de Maurice Dantec…

LE DEBUT

Je me retouvais donc dans une bourgade du nord-ouest de la Virginie, au beau mileu de la vallee de Shenandoah, dans une ferme. Le travail de la ferme et la derniere annee de High School furent tres formateurs et benefiques pour moi. Les cours de civisme, d’histoire, d’ecologie, de theatre, les sports me fascinaient. Enfin des profs qui n’etaient pas issus de l’ideologie bolshevik de mai 1968,,,

J’appris la valeur et noblesse du travail de la terre, m’imbibait de la culture rurale de la region et m’integra a la communaute. Je fis aussi connaissance du monde des travailleurs immigres Mexicains qui je cotoyais au quotidien a la ferme. Pour la premiere foi de ma vie, j’allais a l’eglise, Protestante, avec ma famille d’acceuil, Catholique avec mes amis Mexicains et personne n’y trouvait a redire. Pas de moquerie, pas d’incomprehension…

Je devins un avide etudiant de l’histoire du pays, profitant du fait que la Virginie a toujours joue un role clef et fondateur dans l’histoire du pays. La relative proximite de Washington D.C. avec ses musees, sa charge historique a chaque coin de rue contribuait a assouvir ma soif de connaitre tous les secrets du systeme politico-economique de ce grand pays. Je me suis imbibe de l’histoire du pays, de tous les rouages du systeme politique jusqu’a en arriver a en savoir plus long que la grande majorite du public Americain. Je me suis plonge corps et ame dans la culture et l’histoire du pays.

C’est apres avoir recu mon diplome du lycee aux USA (Bac No2) que je suis rentre a l’universite l’annee suivante apres avoir obtenu une bourse academique grace a mes excellentes notes en derniere annee de High School.

L’universite etait une institution privee, et religieuse. J’y recu deux license, une en Sciences Po et l’autre, en Espagnol. Je dois vous dire que des ma deuxieme anne d’universite, je quittais la ferme pour aller vivre dans une famille d’amis Mexicains, originiare du Nord Est du Mexique.

Cette famille etait d’extraction tres modeste et rurale. Ils etaient tres attaches a leur culture tout en ayant vecu depuis deux decennies aux U.S.A. Je devins intimement familer avec leur langue, leurs coutumes, leur reseaux sociaux et familiaux qui s’etandait de la Virginie a la Californie en passant par l’Arizona et tout le Nord du Mexique resultat d’une tradition migratoire vielle de plus de 50 ans. Au point ou lors d’activites avec le reste de la communaute Mexicaine du coin, on me prennais pour un vague cousin…Francais??? Personne n’y croyais beaucoup.

C’etait ma deuxieme experience d’immersion totale aux U.S.A. De jour dans une universite privee hupee, de nuit chez les travailleurs immigres.

Cette experience m’ammenat a vouloir profiter du programme d’echange entre mon universite et une universite mexicaine pendant un an. Me voila donc parti au Mexique pour un an. La encore, j’explorai le pays de long en large, d’en haut jusque en bas en suivant ma methode. J’y rencontrai l’ame soeur et me marriais. Me voila donc marrie au Mexique en troisieme annee de licence.
A la fin de l’annee, ma femme et moi entrepriment le voyage de retour vers la Virginie en voiture, ce qui nous permit de connaitre de nouveaux horizons.

J’entrepris donc la tache d’acclimatisation de ma femme issue des classes moyennes citadines du Mexique a son nouvel environnement, c’est a dire, une communaute rurale aux U.S.A ou la vaste majorite de ses compatriotes apartenait a une classe sociale qu’elle connaisait a peine. De ses propres mots, elle etait venu connaitre “l’autre Mexique” celui qu’elle croisait a pene dans la rue dans son propre pays, ici, aux U.S.A. Ma femme, qui avait fait une licence en langues et etudie l’anglais a l’universite, commenca sur mes conseils a s’integrer a la societe locale en faisant du volontariat a l’hopital local. Je me suis dit qu’elle y pratiquerait l’anglais, servirai la communaute servant de traductrice, y apprendrait le “systeme americain” et en plus obtiendrait de l’experience professionelle et de futures references en vue d’un travail remunere quand elle aurait un permis de travail.

Je finit donc mes licences en l’an 2000.

L’ENRACINEMENT PROFOND

La fin des etudes marquait aussi la fin du visa d’etudiant. Il fallait trouver le moyen de rester au dela de l’annee “d’apprentissage pratique” accorde aux etudiants etrangers en fin de cylce d’etude. Quoi de mieux que d’aller chercher un emploi dans un cabinet d’avocat specialiste en immigration pour obtenir la clef d’entree dans la societe americaine, la fameuse carte verte?

Par la grace du saint esprit, et par le fait de ma vaste connaisance de l’espagnol je trouvais un cabinet d’avocat qui etait en accord pour me sponsoriser pour un visa de travail avant que mon annee “d’apprentissage pratique” et mon permis de travail d’etudiant n’expire.

Non seulement je prennais le long et tortueux chemin de l’obtension de la carte verte, mais aussi travaillait au quotidien avec des immigres venus des quatre coins du globe, toutes classes sociales confondues.

Au matin du 11 septembre 2001, j’etais a mon bureau dans la banlieue ouest de Washington en Virginie, entrain de commencer ma journee de lutte contre le systeme d’immigration byzantin quand la radio annonca la premiere attaque terroriste sur la tour numero 1. Nous croyons que c’est un gag. Puis, peu apres 9:00 heures, la segonde attaque a lieu. A 09:37, la troisieme attaque a lieu. Un avion s’ecrase conte le Pentagone a quelques kilometres de mon bureau.

Tous au bureau sommes en larmes. Immigres ou pas. On entends des helicopteres partout, des avions chasseurs, des sirenes de pompiers hurlent de toutes parts. Une grande fureur montait en moi. Je prennais la decision de faire quelque chose. Je me sentait plus Americain que Francais, me sentait pret a defendre avec ma vie ce pays qui n’etait pas encore le mien, en depit du fait que je n’etait legalement qu’un travailleur temporaire non-immigrant titulaire d’un visa H1-B.

L’enracinement culturel et affectif a mon pays d’acceuil etait deja tres profond. Mon dossier de visa d’immigrant etait toujours en cours avec le Ministere du Travail qui devait fournir une attestation ce qui pouvait prendre plus d’un an. (Deux dans mon cas…) mes possibilites de changer d’emploi etaient nulles car cela aurait annule toutes les douloureuses demarches entreprisent jusqu’alors.

Je decidit donc devenir pompier volontaire dans ma communaute, car les portes de l’armee, de la police ou des pompiers metaient fermees de part mon statut legal de non-immigrant autorise a ne travailler qu’avec l’employeur qui me sponsorisait.

Je me lancait dans cette nouvelle aventure de plein pied, un des rares immigrants dans la communaute assez fermee des pompiers volontaires, meme dans une region aussi diverse que la banlieue de Washington D.C. J’y decouvrit une passion sans bornes. Je pris plaisir a suivre tous les entrainement de base pour devenir pompier-technicien de medecine d’urgence ce qui prit presque un an d’effort, de cours de nuit et de nombreux weekends passes au centre d’entrainement.

Apres ca, je m’aquitais avec joie de mes gardes de nuit, une fois tous les six jours et mes gardes de weekend de 24 heures. Il faut savoir que plus de 80% des pompiers aux U.S.A sont volontaires, non remuneres. J’etais tres content de servir mon pays d’acceuil de cette maniere. Avec chaque annee qui passait, mes racines s’approfondissait, meme si je n’etait toujours pas resident permanent avec mon dossier en atente a cause d’un superviseur du service d’immigration corrompu qui savait que moi et mon patron savions de ses agissement (Voir http://www.justice.gov/usao/vae/Pressreleases/04-AprilPDFArchive/07/20070420schofieldnr.pdf) et qui avait decide de garder mon dossier dans un tiroir de son bureau…J

Je n’ai pu obtenir la residence permanente qu’apres son arrestation. Mon ancien patron et moi participerions a sa chute. Des l’obtension de la residence permanente et la fin de la restriction du choix d’employeur imposee par les lois d’immigration, je m’engageait comme pompier professionel dans la meme jurisdiction, prenant au passage un reduction de salaire annuel de $20,000.00.

Apres quelques annees de specialisation, un poste de commissaire aux incendies s’est ouvert a moi dans une jurisdiction voisine. Voir definition ici, http://www.formulaire.gouv.qc.ca/cgi/affiche_doc.cgi?dossier=2917&table=0 car il n’y a pas d’equivalent en France a ma connaissance. La difference principale entre le Quebec et la Virginie sur ce point est que les commissaires aux incendies en Virginie sont des pompiers qui ont aussi le statut d’officier de police, ils sont armes, ont fait l’ecole de police et ont la responsabilite exclusive des enquetes et arrestations correspondentes a leur mandat qui varie un peu de jurisdiction en jurisdiction. Ce poste me permit donc de realiser a 100% mon reve d’enfance, d’etre pompier ou policier en marriant les deux. Du coup, je suis aussi devenu eboueur, etant charge de sortir les ordures de la societe pour les mettre a leur place.

Je suis toujours pompier volontaire au meme endroit, par passion et gratitude a l’institution qui m’a permit d’atteindre mes reves d’enfance tout en me faisan l’honneur de me permettre servir a ma communaute benevolement.

Il y a maintenant environs 20% des membres du corps de pompiers volotaires qui sont des immigrants comme moi ou issus de l’immigration de premiere generation. Le Mexique, Salvador, Republique Dominicaine, Guatemala, Honduras, Argentine, Peru, Bolivie, Ukraine, Inde, Philippines, et la France y sont representes. Je suis fier de servir a leur cotes, tous ensembles, Americains de “souche” et immigres autant dans mon corps de pompiers professionels que dans celui des volontaires. Nous sommes tous des freres engages dans le meme combat.

J’ai prete serment devant le tribunal de defendre la constitution de ce pays, de le defendre contre ses ennemis exterieurs et interieurs et de faire mon travail avec honnetete, de defendre et de proteger la societe, ce que je ferais jusqu’au bout. Je suis devenu Americain, par choix.

CE QUE JE PENSE.

Je suis tout a fait d’accord avec Marchenoir sur le point suivant [Meme si nous ne voyons pas toujours les chose d’un meme oeuil, Je reste pour lui un “envahisseur ethnique”]. Je cite:

“ Le gauchisme est un facteur majeur, structurel, massif, du bordel ambiant.
Peu de Français s’en rendent compte, car il est difficile à un poisson d’imaginer qu’on puisse vivre autrement que plongé dans l’eau.
Mais, en France, on vit gauchiste, on respire gauchiste, on bouffe gauchiste, on bosse gauchiste, on baise gauchiste — bref, ils ont vaporisé un truc dans l’air, ou mis quelque chose dans la flotte, je vois pas d’autre explication.
Les Américains sont très conscients, eux, du rôle fondamental et incroyablement destructeur de l’idéologie gauchiste dans la situation actuelle.
Dans la situation américaine, j’entends. La France, ils s’en tapent un peu, en général. »

Marchenoir a raison a 100%. Il a « hit the nail on the head » d’une manière phénoménale avec ces propos. C’est pourquoi, ayant vécu toute ma vie d’adulte loin de la France il me serait impossible, invivable d’y retourner, bien moins dans la conjoncture actuelle.

Je pense même parfois aller rendre mon passeport a l’ambassade de France a Washington, chaque fois que la moutarde me monte au nez a l’apprendre les dernières imbécilités ahurissantes et tragédies inexplicables qu’il s’y passent.

J’ai trouve un chez moi de ce cote-ci de l’Atlantique. Un chez-moi ou je peux être un Américain par choix, un Français qui ne l’est plus vraiment, mélange bizarre d’Américano-franco-mexicain en paix. Ou je peux être très patriotique si cela me chante, ou j’ai pu trouver l’église Catholique qui m’a fait cruellement défaut sans le savoir en France.

Un pays ou l’on peut travailler autant que l’on veut, ou n’importe qui peut se défendre quand attaque sans être inquiété, un pays ou ont ne nous prend pas pour des nistons incapables de décider pour eux-mêmes et a qui l’on ne peut confier des armes…

Un pays ou le travail est récompensé, admire et naturel. Un pays ou si j’arrête un criminel il est puni avec sévérité, un pays ou la courtoisie subsiste, un pays qui ne fait pas d’excuses pour ses principes, un pays ou un policier peut riposter quand attaque sans etre traine dans la boue et peut protéger les faibles, un pays ou la société en général ne fait pas l’apologie des criminels, un pays qui sans cesse s’adapte, se réinvente et ou chacun a sa place s’il respecte les lois.

Pour les critiques qui vont surement me sauter dessus en disant que je peint un portrait idyllique non conforme a la réalité, je rétorque ceci :
De part mon boulot, je patauge tous les jours dans les problèmes de notre pays. Ce n’est pas parce que vous avez lu tel ou tel article/livre/statistiques/etude ou vu tel ou tel documentaire a la télé que vous y connaissez quelque chose aux problèmes de ce pays.

Croyez-moi, je sais que nous avons du pain sur la planche.

Notre plus grand péril, se sont les politiciens. Mes études de Sciences-po et mes années de service dans la sécurité publique me l’on apprit. Peu importe le parti politique, ils mentent tous, ils magouillent tous a divers degrés et on tous vendus leur âme a tel ou tel intérêt.

Notre avantage sur ce point avec la France, c’est qu’ici les politiciens sont beaucoup moins intouchables qu’en France et sont beaucoup susceptibles de souffrir des conséquences de leurs actes. Les gauchistes du cru étant bien sur, les plus dangereux cars autoproclames plus vertueux que leurs semblables de droite.

Nous subissons la profonde et incontournable incompétence de l’administration gauchiste au pouvoir en ce moment même. Vivement Novembre…le pendule va se balancer de l’autre cote. Espérons que cela mettra fin au cheminement vers le système d’échec socio-politico-économique de style Franco-Européen.

Le second aspect du plus grand péril auquel nous sommes confronte, c’est que le visionnaire General Eisenhower, le 34eme président de notre pays avait nomme le « complexe militaro-industriel ». Voir son célèbre discours d’adieu prononce le 17 janvier 1961 [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5407.htm]
Nostradamus n’aurai pas mieux fait en terme de prévisions.

Nous continuerons la lutte contre les faux idéaux gauchistes sans relâche, il en va de notre survie.

2010-01-14T22:46:00.007-05:00

John says:
January 14, 2010 at 6:37 pm
This post was entertaining to read despite being permeated with immaturity and a good dose of ingenuity. The "malinchismo" displayed by certain Salvadorans mirrors that commonly found in Mexico. The new and unknown is revered in Mexico and Central America, repeating the vicious circle initiated with the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadores. They were revered as gods until their evil surfaced causing the perdition of entire civilizations. Americans haven't been a novelty in Central America since the first part of the 19th century when U.S. interests started eying Central America as a New Frontier. They were revered as well when the Central Americans set their first gaze upon them. This one-dimensional view rapidly matured into what it is today after over 150 years of U.S. involvement in Central America on all political, economic and social levels. I submit that if the people in Central America knew how the French really are; they would be much less enthused about them. There are few French nationals in El Salvador, and not many at all in all of Central American. Salvadorans in France are such a rarity that I never saw one in my 18 years there. I do have an interesting story to share though. I was born in France and left for the United States on my own when I was 18. I love the U.S. and truly think that despite its problems and defects, it does remain the best country in the world to live in. I am what you can call an “American by Choice”. I lived in Mexico for a year and my wife is from that country. I learned Spanish in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia living among Mexican immigrants, mostly farm laborers and factory workers. I have friends from just about every Latin American country as well as from most parts of the world. I live in Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. area, home to the second largest population of Salvadorans and Central Americans, [second only to L.A.] outside of El Salvador. I have more Salvadoran friends than I can count on two hands and two feet and my godson is Salvadoran. I speak Spanish with a Mexican accent and often am mistaken for one. Maybe it’s the Mediterranean look, not sure. Now that we have set the stage, let’s talk about the experiences of one Central American in France. My cousin moved to Costa Rica about eight years ago and married a Nicaraguan there. After the restaurant he owned in C.R. faltered and the arrival of a newborn, my cousin and his new wife decided to move to France where he had his support system there with his mom, aunts and all. They have been in France for a year and my cousin’s wife HATES it. She misses the Gringos she knew in C.R. The French will only accept you in France if you “blend in” and always say that you love France and their food, culture and society. Yasmina, my cousin's wife, now runs a cafe with her husband in Sete, the Southern France town I grew up in. I have seen that poor woman cry tears of blood when faced with the unrelenting incomprehension of the French. Culture shock doesn’t quite capture it. Yasmina is criticized on a daily basis for the way she dresses, the way she speaks, the way she acts, the way she raises her son, the way she runs her business. This is driving the poor woman batty. She has really taken a liking to my wife and they speak over the phone on a semi-regular basis. My wife and her met for the first time in September on the occasion of a trip we took to France. Yasmina cried and cried asking for us to take her to the U.S. with us. My cousin’s wife has had to endure the French in ways that she could never have imagined. She is criticized for being too loud, for smiling too much, for not speaking French perfectly, to the point where they have said that she is “bête a manger du foin” which roughly translates into “so dumb she could eat hay”. Customers have refused to be waited on by her in her own café because she speaks a shaky, accented French. Other customers have approached her to tell her to go back to her country because she was taking a French person’s job by working in her own business. Yasmina has said on numerous occasions that she would rather go back to Costa Rica and be poor than to remain in France and live as a middle class wife there. I can’t blame her.

[I originally wrote this in response to a blog I ran accross while doing research] The blog address is: http://www.sebastienpage.com/2008/07/02/surf-and-fun-in-el-salvador/

COPS ON THE BRINK OF THE ABYSS

2009-06-26T23:30:00.003-04:00

COPS ON THE BRINK OF THE ABYSS

Tuesday 05/12/2009 Article by Stephanie Varet

Yannick Landurain, 28 years old, is a police officer assigned to the Rapid Intervention Group in Bobigny [Suburb of Paris]. [In France, most police functions are carried out by a national police force; municipal police agencies have limited police powers. The gendarmerie has jurisdiction over rural areas. It is a dependency of the French Army]

He is a police union rep. with Force Ouvriere [Worker’s Force]. He shares with us an intensely vivid testimony on his and his colleagues’ working conditions. The numbers policy is ravaging “the job”, the Projects rule, the brass could care less about the rank and file, depression is commonplace and suicides are on the rise.

What is your job description?

Our mission is essentially to combat street crimes, we respond when there are riots such as in 2005, or when things get iffy in the projects. Sometimes we lend support to the Criminal Investigations Divisions, when they are serving warrants in a home or we help the neighborhood patrol guys when they stop someone in the projects where things could go wrong. Otherwise, we patrol, drive around looking for crimes in progress.

What are the difficulties you are faced with?

We mainly provide back up for colleagues, often in the heart of the projects. Calls there are almost always tense. There is a lack of officers assigned to those areas. It’s commonplace for us to drive through the projects and receive all kinds of projectiles thrown at our vehicles; in broad daylight. Things get worse at night, when they throw Molotov cocktails at our cruisers. I have to say that those who do that have crossed a certain line. I was transferred to this section seven years and a half ago; then we received rotten vegetables or eggs, it still was not so bad. Since the 2005 riots, things have gotten worse. We drive through the project and stones are thrown at us for no reason. We are not always coming to deal with some youths. We have even been shot at with flashballs. The projects belong to them. It’s more and more serious, they seek contact with us. It’s commonplace for colleagues to be wounded.

Where do these events take place?

It happens just about everywhere, the worst is at the La Courneuve 4000 homes project, the Aulnay-sous-bois 3000 homes project, at the Clos Saint-Lazare projects in Stains, and all the largest projects in the Province of Seine Saint Denis [a suburb of Paris]. Some of our attackers are armed; they carry flashballs among other things, that’s supposedly a law enforcement less than lethal weapon. Lately, some colleagues who were searching some basements in the 4000 homes project were shot at with flashballs, they take some of the same weapons we use. We find them with assault weapons as well, some AKs, we think that there’s a black market smuggling ring from Eastern Europe.

Are those problems specific to the Province of Seine-Saint-Denis?

There is a high turn-over within the Police in Seine-Saint-Denis: Most of the officers want to be transferred outside of the Paris metropolitan area, In Drancy, there were about 30 officers. When they disbanded the community policing units, the colleagues who were transferred out of the area were not replaced. When I got there in 2002, there were 30 officers assigned there. Now, there are maybe six or seven. In Aulnay-Sous-Bois, where there are two, no more than three cruisers on patrol for a population of 80,000.00 to 90, 0000.00. It’s not enough. To be transferred [out of the Paris Metro Area] to Northern France, you have to have at least three to four years on the job. An officer being transferred out of Paris Metro after three to four years is replaced by a rookie fresh out of the academy. A young officer needs to be directed. Now, we throw them out there, just like that.

So what happens then?

At the academy, you are taught all about theory, I mean the legal stuff, the legal parameters of the job. [the national police academy is 52 weeks long, mostly law and theory oriented] But when you respond within the projects, if there are ten people in front of us, we won’t make an arrest. There is a whole psychological aspect to these project youths that we are not taught to handle. Moreover, there is a blinding lack of leadership in Seine-Saint-Denis. They are trying to bring back the community policing units, they call them proximity policing units now, but it’s all the same. Those are called the Neighborhood Policing Units. There are very few of them in the projects. For example, in the Franc-Moisin project in Saint Denis, there are maybe ten. Six or Seven of them are on patrol on any given day. The police van drops them off in the projects and they walk around the projects.

What type of situations do they encounter?

It’s summertime now. The weather is nice and the scooters and mopeds are out and about. We are prohibited from chasing them when they violate traffic laws or noise ordinances. They are always waiting for us in the projects. I recently was in Bobigny at the Abreuvoir projects, there was a teenager driving around without a helmet, he was trying to lure us deep into the projects instead of trying to escape. When you’re got some experience under your belt, you can tell and you don’t go, but when they are dealing with 20 year old rookies, they go and they don’t know what’s waiting for them. Since the 2005 riots, ambushes are more and more frequent. The entire police fore is increasingly fed up. The Province of Seine Saint Denis is pathetic. We have vehicle with over 200,000.00 miles, our equipment and human resources are not at all up to the tasks we are asked to accomplish. When you are waiting 10 to 15 minutes for your back up to arrive, when things are going south quick, that’s a heck of a long time to wait.

And the government demands results…

The number’s game has exploded. There are written numbers requirements. Each police officer receives his set. If you don’t make the numbers, you are reprimanded. For example, let’s look at my own case: Two years ago, I had to make four arrests. I only had made two. I had to go to the Captain’s office and sign a written warning because I had not met the quota. I have to tell you that a written warning remains in your personnel file. Before, we could exercise our discretion in the field. Now, the figures are precise, we have to make numbers. Sometimes, we go after illegal aliens. They’ll tell you “this month you have to arrest more undocumented aliens”. There again, the officers are fed up, they have lost any possible discretion. You have to arrest everything that moves. The population’s perception of us is getting worse and worse, the brass pressures us more and more to meet the quotas. The officers are between a rock and a hard place. It’s not easy for them.

How does the average officer deal with this pressure?

Depression has never been so prevalent among the ranks before the past few years, the numbers are exploding. I’m not even talking about the suicides which are constantly rising. Where I work, last January there were three officer suicides in three weeks in the Seine-Saint-Denis Province. There were probably some family issues compounding the situation, but this constant pressure to make numbers, added to the insults from the public, to which the brass forbids us to answer…so when the family unit implodes, it becomes harder and harder. A police officer in Stains committed suicide in January because he failed his driver’s license test. You have to have a driver’s license in the police.

Can you expand on that?

This particular police officer had to get his license before February 2009, it was an administrative injunction. He passed his test in March 2009. The management would never grant him a two week grace period. His job was his only escape from family issues. He committed suicide behind a closed door in his office while his colleagues were on the other side of the door. They were more than shocked. In those cases, a psychologist comes for half a day, and then there is no support. There is only one psychologist for the entire Paris Metro Area. They tell us “if you have a problem, here is the psychologist’s number”. It’s very difficult to land a consultation. It’s bullshit in other words. It’s just so they can say that there are psychologists on hand, but reality says otherwise. Moreover, we are scared, since if you go see the shrink, the police chief can take your weapon away at any time if he or she feels that you are not well. And of course this will be annotated in your personnel file. That creates a chilling effect. This explains why we don’t go see those infamous shrinks.

Why isn’t the general public aware of the current state of the police force?

I can talk to you because I’m a union rep. You have to know that a police officer is prohibited from talking to the press. Everything stays within the family, everything is kept quiet. We are told to “make collars”. The problem is that in case of any even minor mishap within the projects, you are not backed up by your superiors.
They send you to IA (Internal Affairs) to humor the press who could create pressure; we throw the police officer under the bus. It’s more and more common. There had never been as many dismissals and disciplinary actions in the police before the past four or five years. Before, you had one or two disciplinary actions a month. Now, it’s every Wednesday.

What’s your personal experience with reference to this?

Three weeks ago, a scooter charged me while I had a flash ball in hand. I shot at the scooter. The individual wasn’t hit. I only hit the body of the bike. He fell from the scooter and wasn’t hurt. We arrested him, nothing happened. I was given a written warning for shooting at the scooter with the flashball, when in my opinion; this was clear case of self-defense. At least if there had been an investigation determining this wasn’t self-defense, I could deal with that. In this case, the District Attorney told me that this was not a case of self defense. They don’t want police officers to make a habit of shooting at scooters with flashballs thus causing riots in the projects. I had to swallow being punished for something I was justified in doing. Furthermore, in Seine-Saint-Denis, if your scratch a hubcap on a cruiser, you’re immediately punished. It’s excessive punishment. I compare the police to a pea factory. We beat the workers into collecting as many peas as possible, but if there is the slightest issue, the so-called guilty party is thrown out.

Do you feel that you are treated as children?

Let me give you an example: The street crimes unit had collared a guy who had three kilos of cocaine on his person. The Captain told his officers that he was very happy with their catch, “My sense is, I’d rather your caught 3000 guys with one gram of coke”. When your chief tells you that, when you think you did your job to the best of your ability, you can’t find motivation there. They’d rather we catch two youths smoking a joint rather than one youth who stole a car. We don’t investigate anything anymore. It’s just about checking all the right boxes. This way, they can claim that crime is down; even if it’s 5000 potheads…Violence is on the rise. We don’t do quality work anymore since 2004-2005. The unions keep clamoring that. We make flyers…but there is such a media frenzy around this, the numbers have to be there by year’s end.

In summary, the numbers are the enemy.

You’d have to know where those figures come from. Some fellow officers who work in the administration offices tell us that the numbers are cooked. A colleague told me that a person had torched three cars, three cars end up being three different reports, to inflate the numbers, this happens all the time. Before, the police officer loved his job. That’s over with now. The number of leave request from officers has never been so high. About 80% of all police officers joined the force by vocation. After three, four or five years in Seine-Saint-Denis, vocation disappears. We all have been sent before IA for nothing. I arrested a person twice in two years. One day, he was driving without an operator’s license. Another day, it was for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He said that I was harassing him. I was sent to IA without knowing why. When you go before IA, they take your credentials away. Thus, for a time, you are no longer a police officer. I remember I asked to go to the bathroom. I was told “No, NO, you can’t move about freely. Just like if I was a criminal, I was accompanied to the bathroom. If a rookie chases a scooter in the projects and the scooter crashes, that officer’s career is over.

According to what you say, the line the government is feeding is that they are tough on crime, but in reality it’s rather lax?

To be incarcerated in Seine Saint Denis, you really have to be a multi-recidivist and even then, you have to have done something really serious. I had been in Drancy for three weeks when a colleague was stabbed in the heart. Thankfully, he only suffered a broken rib as his ballistic vest helped; I had been knocked unconscious with a chair. We arrested the guy at the scene. He was sentenced to two months in jail and a 1000.00 Euro fine he’ll never pay while he tried to kill an officer. Anybody could tell you that this was an attempted homicide perpetrated against a law enforcement officer. This was pled down to a simple assault. There really is a two track system in Seine-Saint-Denis. The judges who make mistakes are never reprimanded, but if we scratch a vehicle, we’re good for it. So now, we don’t file charges any more, it’s useless.

What’s so strange about all his is that your management does not address the issues you are describing. Why?

The management was smart about this one by giving out bonuses. One of my friends just graduated from the Captain’s School, for him, it’s all about management now. You have to make the business “profitable”. Some Captains rebel. It does not last long. When you’re looking at 15,000.00 to 20,000.00 Euro bonuses by the end of the year, you’ve got an incentive to shut up.

Statements compiled by Stéphanie Varet

FRENCH POLICE, POLICE FRANCAISE, POLICE DISTRESS

Death of a French cop/ La mort d'un flic francais

2007-04-14T00:41:00.000-04:00

Chers collègues...
J'avais trente-et-un ans,
un père, une mère qui m'aimaient et que j'aimais,
une petite amie que j'aimais, avec qui je fondais des projets de foyer,
d'enfants...
des coéquipiers qui m'appréciaient et que je j'appréciais,
des amis avec qui je partageais pleins de joies...

J'étais policier!
Mon grade?!
Gardien de la Paix...
J'étais de la 11ème CI, en ULI.
La PAIX, Ca la paix, je l'ai gardée!
gardée sans jamais l'avoir trouvée!!!

Pourtant je m'efforçais de la garder, de la maintenir...
pour mes proches, mais aussi pour mes concitoyens.
Ces "citoyens" qui m'ont craché dessus, qui m'ont insulté, parfois même
violenté!!!

Ce soir, vers 21h00, un d'entre eux, aidé par d'autres "citoyens",
un "brave citoyen" donc, un de ceux que nos lois, nos magistrats,
nos "citoyens", nos associations, nos bien-pensants et parfois même
que des FONCTIONNAIRES DE POLICE protègent;
et par la force des choses que notre Etat protège...
Un d'entre eux, disais-je m'a lâchement assassiné.

Comment???
Non, il n'était pas armé!
Non, il ne m'a pas foncé dessus avec un véhicule "emprunté"!
Il m'a simplement poussé sous le verrin d'un manège qui m'a décapité sous les
yeux de mes collègues impuissants.

Pourquoi??? Comment dire?
J'intervenais sur une rixe entre jeunes,
qui, non contents de porter des coups à la foule en présence ainsi
qu'au forain propriétaire du manège, ils nous prirent à parti mes collègues et
moi!!!
J'eu moins de chance que les autres voilà tout!

Le plus "curieux", c'est que ma mort ne fait l'objet que de quelques
lignes dans les feuilles de choux qui se disent journaux d'information!
Ah! j'allais oublier, il s'agit bien évidemment d'un accident!!!
Que mes collègues sans doute sous l'effet de la peine, de la surprise, du choc,
n'ont pas encore réagit!
Ils n'ont manifesté ni mécontentement, ni colère, ni ras-le-bol...
Pas même un ça suffit (avec s'il vous plaît juste après sinon ça fera trop
répressif voire agressif)

c'est étonnant, ça non?!
Surtout quand on sait que deux "jeunes désoeuvrés" morts dans un transformateur
en novembre 2005 avaient suffit à déclencher de longues nuits d'émeutes, de
vandalisme et d'innombrables violences armées ou non à l'égard de nos
collègues...
A des marches silencieuses ou des manifestations...
A des interventions télévisées de nos gouvernants très émus...

Je ne vous raconte pas tout ça pour vous faire pleurer sur mon sort
ni vous inciter à la vengeance et encore moins à vous enjoindre à démissionner!

Non, collègue!
Je t'écris simplement pour te dire que si tu n'y prends pas garde, tu seras
peut-être le prochain!!!
Ce sont tes collègues qui pleureront de n'avoir rien pu faire,

C'est chez toi que le téléphone sonnera pour annoncer à ta femme que tu es
décédé dans l'exercice de tes fonctions!

C'est à ta famille que l'on remettra le drapeau, symbole de nos couleurs et des
valeurs que tu a défendu au prix de ta vie!!!

C'est à tes parents que l'on donnera tes deux belles médailles "en chocolat"
pour le titre de chevalier de la légion d'honneur et d'acte de courage et de
dévouement, à titre posthume bien entendu!!!

Avec un peu de chance tu passeras peut-être même brigadier ou officier (toujours
à titre posthume)!

C'est pour ton fils, ta fille que les collègues verseront la cotisation à
l'orphelinat de notre institution...

C'est à tes collègues que l'on dira d'éviter les contrôles dans le secteur ou tu
sera MORT, ce de le but bien évident de ne pas "provoquer" ces pauvres petits,
et par la même occasion également empêcher qu'un autre collègue comme toi ou
moi, de commettre une "bavure"...

Eh oui! Mieux vaut que tu décèdes sous les coups, les balles ou les roues d'un
véhicule...

Cela suscitera toujours moins d'émotions que si un "citoyen" désoeuvré trouve la
mort après nous avoir tiré dessus ou bien après avoir essayé d'échapper à un
contrôle de routine!!!

Voilà, COLLEGUE!!!

Je ne m'attends pas à ce que tu ailles manifester, à ce que tu deviennes plus
professionnel lors de "l'exercice de tes fonctions", à ce que tu sois plus
solidaire de nos collègues à ce que tu fasses ce qui est nécessaire pour que
cela ne se reproduise plus jamais, ni même à essayer de réunir le maximum de
collègues pour les en convaincre!!!

Non, non!
Loin de moi de croire que ma seule mort suffirait à changer tout ça!!!

J'éspère simplement que tu apprendras à en faire le moins possible, à ne plus
t'exposer, à étouffer ta fierté et ton honneur dans le silence, la bêtise, la
lâcheté, la collaboration, le suicide, voire même l'alcool ou la drogue pour les
plus loques d'entre nous!!!
Eh oui c'est aussi ça la "Grande Maison", une "famille", "saine" "unie" et
"soudée" comme un seul homme!!!

Il faudra aussi que tu apprennes à enduire ton anus de vaseline liquide(c'est
plus efficace), à bien le dilater sinon c'est plus douloureux, et ce pour
chacune de tes convocations à l'IGS ou au tribunal car pour nous autres, la
présomption d'innocence n'existe pas ou alors il faudra que tu dénonces tes
collègues!!!

Je te rassure, il ne faut pas t'en faire pour moi!
Là où je suis, j'ai enfin trouvé la paix...

Plus de risque de me faire insulter, violenter, dénoncer et accuser
injustement...

Ma fiancée va sûrement recevoir le chèque de soixante euros prévu pour les décès
de collègues en service...
Ma mère pourra essuyer ses larmes dans le drapeau qu'elle aura reçu...
Mon père rangera mes deux médailles sur l'étagère du salon...
Mes collègues feront une quête pour une belle couronne...
Le préfet organisera sans doute une belle cérémonie...
Seront présents beaucoup d'officiels, n'oublie pas que nous sommes en période
d'élection ultime, ils seront légion ceux qui profiteront de mon oraison pour
grapiller quelques secondes sur chaîne de télé ou quelques lignes dans les
torchons...
Les bien-pensants ou "citoyens" "sympathisants" diront il ne faisait que son
travail c'est normal, ou alors c'est bien fait pour lui il n'avait qu'à pas
martyriser ces pauvres jeune qui venaient s'amuser...
Et puis pour une fois que c'est un flic qui se fait tuer, on ne va pas en faire
un fromage!!!
A ceux là je réponds : rassurez-vous personne n'en fera un fromage, pas même un
petit crottin....
Ceux qui m'ont assassiné courent toujours! dans leur cité, ils doivent parader
en criant on a fumé un keuf! et
ils seront respectés par tous les petits autres jeunes "désoeuvrés" qui les
considéreront comme des héros...
Et pour les rares collègues qui n'auraient pas compris, qui les interpelleront,
qui recevront des coups, des crachas, des insultes et qui utiliseront la force
strictement proportionnelle et nécessaire ; on dira : mais qu'avez vous fait?
vous allez provoquer une émeute, vous êtes fous? en période d'élections en
plus!!!!!

J'en ai fini avec toi collègue, comme j'en ai fini avec ma vie!
Je te laisse donc retourner à tes occupations et je te dit ma dernière volonté
est que tu fasses passer ce message au plus grand nombre de collègues possible.
Merci d'avance

FRENCH IN-JUSTICE / LA NON-JUSTICE FRANCAISE

2007-03-16T11:21:00.000-04:00

A 66 year-old pharmacist, accused of killing an assailant and wounding a passerby after an armed robbery in 1998 in Rehon (Meurthe-et-Moselle), was sentenced to two four years of confinement with two years suspended. The accomplices of the assailant killed by the pharmacist, who appeared in court at the same time, were sentenced to two years of confinement, less than the victim who retaliated.

During the evening of November 22, 1998, three masked assailants broke into a Rehon pharmacy right after closing time to rob the till where 457 Euros were kept. The pharmacist took out a 357 magnum revolver, and shot the assailants five times. Three times inside the premises and twice outside while the assailants retreated. One of the assailants, 19 years old, was shot to death and collapsed some 160 years away from the pharmacy while an 18 year old passerby sustained a forearm injury.

The Circuit Court confronted the assailants and the pharmacist who defended hiumself. Same sentence, two years of confinement. That’s what they called a botched robbery. When the robbery is not “botched” the criminals leave with the take and the pharmacist stays put..

Caroline Parmentier-Present magazine.

Nothing but crazyness...this man would have been cleared of any charges anywhere else...this is Alice in Wonderland. What was this man supposed to do??? Let them rob his store and kill him on top of it? This way, NO ONE would have talked about that. My uncle owned a sucessful business in Southern France. About ten years ago, he was the victim of an armed robbery similar to the one in this case. As the assailants ransacked the place after striking him about the head, they started threatening him if he didn’t give them the keys to his Jeep Cherokee parked in fron of the restaurant when they heard a siren ( a Fire engine drove by on the way to a call) and fled after shooting at him 5 times. Fortunately, they were poor shots and did not hit him. The perps were never found. After that, my uncle got a gun. (illegally I suppose) [it is extremely difficult to legally be able to own a handgun in France] A second robbery took place on a Saturday night, after closing time, this time, my uncle took his gun out and the thieves ran away. They ran so fast that one of them fell into the canal in front of the restaurant. After that, my uncle got sick of this and sold his restaurant and moved to Costa Rica where he has been living in peace for 8 years, far from french violence and taxes.

I’m sure that there are hundreds of similar stories around, but these stories never make it into the French media. The French media is all about the ‘underprivileged’, youth from ‘sensitive’ neighborhoods and other leeches who feed on society and are persecuted by the mean French police.

That’s why I live in Virginia, where all legal residents and citizens without a criminal record can own one or several weapons, and can even openly carry it around. You need a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Weapons must be obtained legally and properly registered. Possessing an illegal firearm can be punished by 5 years of mandatory confinement, without the possibility of a suspended sentence or parole.

The law in Virginia, as in all the States to varying degrees, recognized the concept of self-defense. If there is an imminent danger to life, limb or grave peril, especially when a felony is being committed, the victim that defends himself will not be bothered in most instances. If charges are brought, the victim will almost always be cleared of wrongdoing. Confinement in jail would only result if it were demonstrated that using deadly force was not reasonalbe to defend oneself.

In Virginia, about 135000 individuals have concealed weapons permits. Many more own guns and don’t walk around with them. Self-defense cases are rare at best. The argument that allowing the possession of weapons creates cahos in the street is pure nonsense. If it were true, we would see that on a daily basis with more than a million firearms in circulation in Virginia. (More than 200 millions of firearms in the U.S.). The number of murders in Virginia (which takes into account ALL murders, not only those perpetrated with a firearm) was 487 in 1960, when the state had a population of under 4 millions. In 2005 there were ‘only’ 461 murders in Virginiafor a population of 7.5 millions. In Washington D.C. where owning a gun is largely prohibited saw 81 murders in 1960 when owning a gun there was legal for a population of 700,000. In 2005, under the gun ban in D.C. 195 murders were committed for a population of 500,000. We can also look at our neighbor to the South, Mexico where I lived for a year. Possessing a firearm is STRICTLY prohibited, even possessing ammo can land you in jail. As a result, Mexico City is the second most dangerous city in the world after Baghdad depending on the calssification. Mexioc is just as dangerous as Colombia and the Congo. What does this mean???

It means that:

1)Carrying and possessing LEGAL firearms doest not raise nor diminish the crime rate.

2)That the crime rate is mainly affected by social and economic factors, not by the ability or unability to legally possess firearms or not.

3)CRIMINALS kill, not firearms.

4)Accidents are regretable, but is that a reason to ban firearms? If it were so, then we would have to ban automobiles and motorcycles and everything else that can cause an accident.

5)A car can also be used as a weapon, how many deranged inidviduals have ran over crowds on purpose? No need to aim either. Should we ban cars? (Well, that would please Jose Bove rigth?).

I think that it must be legally possible to possess firearms legally in a regulated and supervised environment. I also think that the principle of self-defense must be ENCOURAGED by the judicial system and not PUNISHED as seen in France.

Un pharmacien de 66 ans, accusé d’avoir tué un braqueur et blessé un passant après un cambriolage en 1998 à Rehon (Meurthe-et-Moselle), a été condamné samedi à une peine de quatre ans de prison : deux ans ferme. Deux avec sursis. Les complices du braqueur tué par le pharmacien, qui comparaissaient à ses côtés, ont pris, eux, deux ans de prison. Peine moindre pour les braqueurs que pour la victime qui a tiré…
Dans la soirée du 22 novembre 1998, trois hommes encagoulés avaient fait irruption dans une pharmacie de Rehon juste après sa fermeture pour s’emparer de la caisse où se trouvaient 457€. Le pharmacien avait alors sorti son arme, un 357 magnum, et tiré à cinq reprises sur les agresseurs, trois fois à l’intérieur de la pharmacie et deux fois à l’extérieur, alors qu’ils battaient en retraite. Mortellement touché, un des cambrioleurs, âgé de 19 ans, s’était écroulé à 160m de la pharmacie tandis qu’un passant de 18 ans était blessé à l’avant-bras.
La cour d’assises a renvoyé dos à dos les braqueurs et le pharmacien qui s’est défendu : même temps de prison ferme. C’est ce qu’ils appellent «un braquage qui a mal tourné». Quand le braquage «tourne bien», les truands repartent avec la caisse et le pharmacien n’a qu’à bien se tenir."
Caroline Parmentier – Présent

C'est de la folie douce....Cet homme aurait été relaxe n'importe ou ailleurs... C'est le monde à l'envers. Que fallait-il qui fasse?? Qu'il se laisse voler et abattre de surcroit. Comme ça, PERSONNE n'en aurait parlé... Mon oncle avait un restaurant qui marchait bien dans le sud de la France. Il y a peut etre dix ans il fut la victime d'un braquage similaire, alors que les assaillants saccageaient tout dans le restaurant après lui avoir assène un coup sur la tête, ils étaient en train de dire qu'ils allaient le tuer s'il ne leur donnait pas les clefs de sa Jeep Cherokee parquée devant le restaurant au moment ou ils ont entendu une sirène (les pompiers qui passaient par la en l'occurrence) et on prit la fuite en tirant vers lui.(5 fois). Heureusement, il ne fut pas atteint par les balles. Les auteurs du braquage ne furent jamais retrouves. Après ça, mon oncle s'est armé. (Illégalement, probablement). Deuxième braquage un samedi après la fermeture, mon oncle a sorti son arme, et les voyous on prit leurs jambes a leur coup. Si vite, que l'un d'entre eux et tombe dans le canal devant le restaurant. Après ça, mon oncle en a eu marre, il a vendu son restaurant et est parti s'installer au Costa Rica ou il vit en paix depuis 8 ans. Loin de l'insécurité et de la fiscalité Francaise.

Je suis sur que des histoires comme ça, il y en des tas. Mais ça, ça ne se dit pas dans les médias Francais. Il n'y en a que pour les 'défavorises ', les 'sans-abris ', les jeunes des quartiers 'sensibles' et autres sangsues de la société qui sont 'persécutés ' par la vilaine police Francaise.

C'est un peu pour ça que moi, je vis en Virginie, ou tout résident légal ou citoyen qui n'a pas d'antécédents judiciaires peut posséder une arme (ou plusieurs) et même la porter en public ouvertement. Il faut un permis pour porter une arme cachée. Les armes doivent être obtenues légalement et enregistrées. La détention d'une arme illégale est passible de 5 ans fermes sans discussion possible ou remise de peine.

La loi en Virginie, comme dans tous les Etats à divers degrés, reconnait la légitime défense. S'il y a menace imminente de mort, blessure grave ou autre péril grave, surtout pendent que quelqu'un est en train de commettre un délit aggrave, la victime qui se défend sera presque toujours même pas inquiété. S'il y a une accusation portée, la personne sera presque toujours relaxée...mais de la prison ferme, ça il faudrait qu'il soit démontre qu'il n'était pas raisonnable faire usage de la force mortelle pour se défendre.

En Virginie, il y a environ 135000 individus avec un permis de port d'arme cache (concealed weapon) et beaucoup plus qui possèdent des armes qu'ils ne portent pas avec eux en public. On ne voit que très rarement des cas de légitime défense...l'argument que la permission de détenir des armes crée le cahos dans les rues est une foutaise. Si cela était vrai, on verrai ça tout les jours avec probablement plus d'un million d'armes dans le seul état de la Virginie. (Plus de 200 MILLON d'armes dans tout le pays.) Le nombre de meurtres en Virginia (qui compte TOUS les meurtres, pas seulement ceux perpétrés avec une arme a feu) était de 487 meurtres en 1960, quand l'état ne comptait que 4 millions d'habitants. En 2005 il y a eu "que" 461 meurtres, pour 7.5 millions d'habitants. La ville de Washington DC, où la détention d'arme et le port d'arme est prohibee, a vu 81 meurtres en 1960, quand le port d'armes y était autorisé et la population était autour de 700,000 habitants. En 2005, pas de port d'armes, pas de possession d'armes légales possible, 195 meurtres pour environs 500,000 habitants. On peut aussi comparer avec notre pays voisin du sud..Le Mexique où j'ai vécu pendant un an. Le port et la possession d'arme est STRICTEMENT interdit, même posséder des balles peut mener a la prison. Résultat, Mexico City, deuxième ville plus dangereuse après Bagdad selon les classements...Le Mexique étant aussi dangereux que la Colombie ou le Gongo. Que cela veut-il dire???

1) Le port et la possession d'armes LEGALES ne fait ni augmenter, ni
diminuer l'incidence de crimes.

2) Ce sont les facteurs sociaux économiques qui influent le plus sur le taux
de criminalité, et non le fait que la possession d'armes soit légale ou
non.

3) Se sont les CRIMINELS qui tuent, pas les armes.

4) Les accidents sont regrettables, mais est-ce une raison pour interdire la
possession et le port d'armes? Si c'etait le cas, alors il faut aussi
interdire les voitures, et surtout les motos, et tout ce qui peur causer
des accidents non?

5) Une voiture peut aussi servir d'arme, combien de tares on fonce sur
des personnes exprès ?? Et pas besoin de viser non plus. Faut-il interdire
les voitures?? (Tiens, ça ferait plaisir a Jose Bove).

Je pense que la détention d'armes doit être possible légalement, réglementé et bien encadré. Je pense aussi que le principe de la légitime défense doit être PROMU par le système judiciaire, et non pas PUNI comme en France.

France's Dirty Backyard

2007-03-06T13:00:00.000-05:00

France’s Dirty Backyard

Here is one more proof of what is WRONG with lesson-givers who perpetrate
the very same actions they criticize other countries for.

This was published by The East African on March 5, 2007.

This is an excerpt from the article you can find at: http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/Opinion/opinion0503079.htm

This is worsened by what Ross Herbert of the South African Institute for International Affairs in Johannesburg terms the “anti-democratic behaviour prevailing among the (francophone) leaders, and corruption, and economic and political decay.”
French presidential candidate Segolene Royal seems to agree with this in an editorial for Temoignage Chrétien, a Catholic weekly. She wrote, “... our country is associated in African minds with the most questionable regimes on the continent.” She blames this on the sitting president’s friendship with such regimes.
In five decades of France-Africa summits, France has offered continued material and military aid to prop up unelected leaders, some of whom have been around for decades thanks to elections that have largely become a mockery of democracy.
FRENCH COMPANIES are equally guilty. For instance, Elf Aquitaine has been closely related to the enduring system of Franco-African relations, “Francafrique.”
Beyond the formal institutions, “Francafrique” worked through a system of international clientelism, combining corruption and force, economic, political and social exchanges, and public and private relations.
All in all, Franco-African relations were and continue to be paternal. The summit in Cannes had all the makings of an attempt to continue this system of paternalism.

It should be noted that the author of this article is based in Rwanda, a place which painfully experienced the effect of French policy in 1994. It should be noted that in 1994, the president of france was Francois Mitterand, the political mentor of Segolene Royal who seems to have conveniently forgotten that.
Here is a little reminder from Wikipedia of this “unfortunate affair”

Paris assisted Rwanda's president Juvénal Habyarimana, who was assassinated on April 6, 1994. Through the offices of the 'Cellule Africaine', a Presidential office headed by Mitterand's son, Jean-Christophe, provided the Hutu regime with financial and military support in the early 1990s. With French assistance, the Rwandan army grew from a force of 9000 men in October 1990 to 28000 in 1991. France also provided training staff, experts and massive quantities of weaponry and facilitated arms contracts with Egypt and South Africa. It also financed, armed and trained Habyrimana's Presidential Guard. French troops were sent in the frame of Opération Turquoise, a military operation under the mandate of the United Nations (UN) which activities are currently the object of political and historical debate.

Te beginning of the END / Le Debut de la FIN

2007-03-05T15:49:00.000-05:00

Major props to our colleagues from Clichy Sous Bois. You discharged your duty, knowing that you work in a country that walks on its head, where the heroes are the perps, oh sorry, "youths" and where the bad guys are the police. You are very courageous to be in this line of work in France, where everything is ultra-politicized. Politics should NEVER be taken into consideration in police work; however, in many cases, politics paralyze police actions. Here, in the United States, politicians only get involved with the police when real or perceived abuses are committed (see Rodney King in LA and Diallo in NY). Generally, there are no abuses committed when a suspect behaves the way he should. When someone fails to obey the commands of a Police Officer and flees, that person, and that person only should be held responsible for whatever may result afterwards. This responsibility is recognized civilly and criminally in many state codes. Fleeing to elude the police IS A CRIME. A Police Officer can only be found responsible if he deliberately acted in violation of internal regulations or the law, or if he acted in an aberrantly negligent, reckless manner. This insertion of politics in every facet of police action in France is putting the entire law enforcement community in a state of operational paralysis. This is a grave peril for the country given the current international and national context. The population has already begun to pay for this. It's far from over, the bill is quite high. Of course, French politicians will be spared, watching everything from the top of their ivory tower...
One day, French police officers will be reduced to revolt, just like the "youths" to be heard...That day will be too late...
The colleagues from Clichy need us; we should sue the French justice system before the International Court of Justice for the political persecution of our colleagues.
COURAGE AND THANK YOU FOR ACTIONS AT THE SERVICE OF SOCIETY.

Bravo aux collegues de Clichy Sous Bois. Vous avez fait votre devoir, tout en sachant que vous travaillez dans un pays qui marche sur la tete, ou les heros sont les voyous, pardon, "les jeunes", et ou les villains sont les forces de l'ordre. Vous avez bien du courage de faire ce metier en France, ou tout est ultra politise. La politique ne devrait JAMAIS entrer en consideration dans le metier de la police cependant, dans bien des cas la polique paralise l'action de la police. Ici, aux Etats Unis, la polique se penche sur la question de la police pratiquement jamais, seulement lors de derapages reels ou apparents (voir Rodney King a Los Angeles, l'affaire Diallo a New York etc.) Generalement, il n'y a pas derapage si les suspects se comportent comme il se doit. Quand quelq'un n'obeit pas aux sommations des policiers et prends la fuite, cette personne, et cette personne seulement devrait etre reconnue responsable de ce qui peut se passer par la suite. Cette responsabilite est reconnue civilement et de maniere criminelle dans de nombreux Etats. Prendre la fuite est un CRIME. Un policier ne peut etre reconnu responsable que si il a deliberement agit a l'encontre des regles internes ou de la loi ou si il a fait preuve de negligence haberrante. L'insertion de la polique dans toutes les facettes de l'action policiere en France est entrain de mettre la police toute entiere en etat de paralisie operationnelle. C'est un grave danger pour le pays dans le contexte national et mondial actuel. La population est entrain de payer les pots casses maintenant, et c'est pas fini, la note va etre tres salee. Mais bien sur, les politiciens francais seront sains et sauf, regardant tout ca du haut de leur tour d'ivoire...
Un jour les policiers Francais en seront reduits a casser, comme les "jeunes" pour etre ecoutes.. mais ce jour la, ce sera trop tard...
Les collegues de Clichy on besoins de nous, on devrait faire un proces a la justice Francaise, a la cour internationale de justice pour persecution politique de nos collegues. COURAGE ET MERCI POUR VOS ACTIONS AU SERVICE DE LA SOCIETE

FALSE SOLIDARITY

2007-02-07T18:38:00.001-05:00

FALSE SOLIDARITY
False solidarity is the defining principle underpinning life in la fwance. This is how it works:

1) There are two basic kinds of people in france. Those who work and those who do not.
2) Of those who work, one half do not pay taxes because they make so little that they are below the taxable income line.
3) Hence, those who work and pay taxes are one half of the working half, which is a quarter.
4) Therefore a quarter of the households of that great land support three fourths of the rest of society.

WHO AXED YOU!!!!!!!!!!

2007-02-07T18:03:00.000-05:00

There we go again. The pissant french (no caps), are at it again. Prime Minister Villepin and his cardiologist foreign minister d'Ouste Blazy are trying to score some cheap below the belt political points by "asking" the United States to remove their troops from Iraq by 2008. WHO THE HELL ASKED YOU!!!!! WHO CARES about what you think will get you in the good graces of the french electorate this year. When has the U.S. EVER asked for la fwance to remove their troops from anywhere??? I guess we should have left france to fend for themselves in all the conflicts they got us involved in. See the article in the Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms/s/26835cca-b650-11db-9eea-0000779e2340.htm

What's really absurd is that france has an opinion about Iraq at all. After all the murky business they've been involved in Iraq over the past three decades. See http://elvatoloko.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_elvatoloko_archive.html
#7 of Ten Questions which would instill terror in a French history teacher
Are all the french mindless sheep blindly herded to perdition?
I guess they are.

CINCO DE MAYO

2006-06-01T08:07:00.000-04:00

Cinco de Mayo has to be one of my favorite holidays to celebrate. First and foremost because of its significance, best expressed by my dear friends at http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm.
The Frenchies, you know, those "anti imperialists" who spread their empire from Africa to America to Asia, got their sorry asses kicked by a bunch of poorly armed peasants led by, sins of all sins, a TEXAN (and consequently a Chicano).
My heart brims with PRIDE and JOY everytime Americans across the land drink Margaritas to the defeat of the French at the Battle of Puebla...
Viva Cinco de Mayo! Viva la Batalla de Puebla! Viva Mexico! Que Vivan todos los Chicanos!

The Usual Suspects / On Prend Les Memes et on Recommence

2006-06-01T07:32:00.000-04:00

I'm back after an eight month long hyatus.
So much has occured in Frogland since last September. The country is bursting at the seams. Violent rioting of the oppressed underclass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Paris_suburb_riots finally exposed the true face of French society (and it's pretty ugly). Student opposition to solutions proposed by Chirac's government with regards to the over 20% unemployment rate for French youths http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/917 showed the world that the country's youths are still trapped in the utopian surreality invented by Mitterrand and his trusty cohorts of rotten minions. Anti-semitism and racism are rampant, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3220564,00.html & http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/114626.stm, http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/0,,3305956,00.html further polarizing the different components of society and contributing to the general sense of malaise felt throughout the land. Symptoms of this gangrenous disease are showing again this week with many frenchies anticipating Mr. Le Pen to make it to the second round of the presidential elections, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen more rioting, police station burning http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/0,,3306021,00.html AND http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/31/AR2006053100831.html etc. etc....
Political corruption scandals are rocking the Chirac government http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5029380.stm
Definitely, this is as good as it gets in France, that great nation of lecture-givers to the world...
Stay tuned for more....

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

2005-09-11T22:59:00.000-04:00

ON THIS DAY LET'S ALL REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF TERROR AND HONOR THE HEROES OF FLIGHT UA 93 WHO SAVED COUNTLESS LIVES IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THROUGH THEIR HEROIC AND SELFLESS ACTIONS.

WE MUST ALSO REMEMBER OUR TROOPS FIGHTING FOR OUR FREEDOM AND WELL BEING.

THANK YOU TO ALL INVOLVED IN EMERGENCY SERVICES AND PUBLIC SAFETY FOR WATCHING OUR BACKS DAY IN AND DAY OUT.

NEVER FORGET, NEVER AGAIN.

LET'S ROLL AMERICA!

THANK YOU KUWAIT & QUATAR

2005-09-04T12:12:00.000-04:00

THOSE TWO NATIONS ARE GIVING $500,000,000.00 and $100,000,000.00 respectively in Katrina hurricane relief fund in the name of the great help the U.S. has provided these countries. Kuwait specified that this was pay back for booting Saddam out of their country. What has Europle pledged??? A few paramedics and paltry aid. We only went there TWICE and lost 53,000 soldiers in Europe during WWI and more than 200,000 in WWII. All Europe has done so far is run news reports criticizing the relief efforts and disparaging the United States. Their media is happy to report that Zarkawi is thrilled about Katrina and are ecsatic to relay his message that his is the "beginning of the crumbling of the United States".http://news.tf1.fr/news/monde/0,,3241791,00.html?trk=100

Some allies we got!

Our Friends from france and Katrina / Nos Amis Francais et Katrina

2005-09-03T11:18:00.000-04:00

Thanks to this act of nature, this tragedy, the french have found yet another inexhaustible source of hate and contempt towards the United States, again, reveling in human misery. Americans do not deserve compassion and empathy, that’s jealously guarded for suicide bombers and terrorists. The humanitarian crisis in the Gulf States does not elicit compassion from these cold hearted fanatics called the french media. Their communist daily “Humanite” [Which has nothing human about it] states across its front page “America Overwhelmed!” as in a cry of victory, the Figaro, another prominent french daily, follows with “America Overwhelmed by the Catastrophe!” . The leftist paper Liberation writes “the damned from the Convention Center are left to their dark destiny, as if they had the plague, like animals, abandoned by a state that treats them like pariahs”. http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=321050

Their largest TV networks offers a daily array of documentaries and reports about the failures of emergency services in Louisiana http://news.tf1.fr/news/monde/0,,3241079,00.html?trk=100

This is frances’s ‘fair’ assessment of the situation. This is our ‘ally’s’ view of the United States trying to cope with this tragedy.

Who are these two-bit journalists to assess the situation? What are their emergency management credentials to tell us what we are doing wrong and how it should be done? WHERE are the articles by experts in emergency management to give a fair assessment of the situation?

My still short career in the fire service has taught me that EVERY emergency can potentially turn into a catastrophe, that no matter how may hours you spend in front of a blackboard or computer trying to plan for an emergency, being on scene is totally different and things WILL go wrong no matter how much training you have or how well equipped you are. Training and equipment are necessary but do not eliminate all mistakes. It is IMPOSSIBLE to plan for every aspect and facet of an emergency. These people act as if we have been preaching the contrary to them and are trying to rub it in our faces.

Nobody here denies that there were shortcomings in the planning for the emergency and the financing of preventive measures. Why are they insinuating the contrary?

Never mind the countless acts of heroism performed by members of public safety services, many of which are volunteers, never mind the generosity abounding everywhere, never mind that this catastrophe would have drowned 60% of the french Atlantic seaboard and affected HALF of the french territory, causing a natural disaster beyond their imagination. What would THEY have done if that would have occurred to them? More importantly, what would WE have done if it had happened to them? Their minds are so atrophied by years of propaganda and hatemongering towards the United States that they do not realize the extent of this disaster and have lost all capability of compassion towards their ally of 200 years.

The White House has declared that offers for help from abroad would be accepted, did the french come forward? No. Well, my bad, the french government is sending help. See this: http://www.ambafrance-us.org/news/statmnts/2005/katarina_embassy.asp

Is this the kind of thank you the veterans of WWII who liberated and their homeland deserve? Hate and judgementalism.

Last summer, over 10,000 frenchmen died during the summer heat wave while the government did nothing to provide air conditioning to its most fragile citizens, not even allowing the weak to take refuge in hospitals, many of which are not air-conditionned.. Did that make the papers in the U.S. ? Did the french receive hate from the U.S. for this?

I am so thoroughly disgusted by their attitude that words are lacking to describe my feelings towards them. What have we done to them to deserve this?

We don’t need them. We will fight, overcome and prosper without their help and in spite of their hate.
God Bless America.

Grace a cette tragedie, cet acte de la nature, les francais ont trouves une source inepuisable de haine et mepris pour les Etats Unis, encore une fois, se vautran dans la misere humaine. Les Americains ne meritent pas de compassion et sympathie, ça ça se garde jalousement pour les terroristes et poseurs de bombes. La crise humanitaire dans les etats du golfe du Mexique ne sucite pas de compassion de la part de ces fanatiques aux coeurs de pierre appeles les medias francais.

Le journal communiste L’Humanite [Qui n’a rien d’humain] declare en premiere page “L’Amerique Depassee” comme un cris de victoire, Le Figaro, autre quotidien de rang, suis avec “L’ Amerique depassee par la catastrophe” Le journal de gauche Liberation ecris “les damnes du centre de conventions son laisses a leur propre sort, comme des pestiferes, comme des animaux, abandones par un etat qui les traite comme des pestiferes” http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=321050
Leurs plus grande chaine de television offre une selection journaliere de docummentaires et reportages sur les echecs des services d’urgence en Louisiane.
http://news.tf1.fr/news/monde/0,,3241079,00.html?trk=100

C’est ça l’evaluation juste de la situation par la france. C’est ça la vision des Etats Unis essaiyant de faire face a cette catastrophe par notre ‘allie’.

Qui sont ces journalistes de deux sous pour evaluer la situation? Quelles sont leurs qualifications pour nous dire ce que nous faisons mal et ce que nous devrions faire? OU sont les articles des experts pour donner une evaluation juste de la situation?

Ma encore jeunne carriere de pompier m'a appris que TOUTES les urgences peuvent potentiellement tourner a la catastrophe, que en depis de toutes les heures passees devant un tableau ou un ordinateur en essaiyant de planifier une urgence, etre sur place est completement different, et oui, il va y avoir des pepins, en depis de tout l'entrainement acquis et en depis de tout le materiel a disposition. L'entrainement et l'equipement est necessaire mais n'elimine pas toutes les erreurs. C'est IMPOSSIBLE de planifier tout les aspects et toutes les facettes d'une urgence. Ces abrutis voudraient faire croire que nous disons le contraire, et veulent nous le lancer a la figure.

PERSONNE ici ne dispute le fait qu'il y a eu des problemes au niveau de la planification et du financement des mesures de prevention. Pourquoi insinuent-ils le contraire??

On se fout des acts innombrables d’heroisme menes a bien par les membres des services d’urgence, dont bon nombre sont volontaires, on se fout de la generosite qui fuse de toutes parts, on se fout de que cette tragedie aurait affecte 60% du littoral atlantique francais et la MOITIE du territoire francais, causant une catastrophe naturelle au dela de leur imagination. Quaraient ILS fait si cela leurs etait arrive? Mais plus important, qu’aurrait on fait NOUS? Leurs esprits sont tellement atrophies par des annees de progragande et de haine envers les Etats Unis qu’ils ne realisent pas l’etendue du desastre et on perdus toute capacite de compassion envers leur allie de 200 ans.

La Maison Blanche as declare que l’on accepterai l’aide de l’etranger, les francais ont-ils offert leur aide? Non

C’est la le grand merci que les veterans de la 2eme Guerre Mondiale qui ont libere leurs patrie meritent? Etres juges et hais?

L’ete dernier, plus de 10,000 francais sont mort durant la vague de chaleur estivale, pendant que le gouvernement n’a rien fait pour leur donner de l’air conditionne, pas meme en les envoyant prendre refuge dans les hopitaux, dont bon nombre ne sont pas climatises. C’est paru dans les journaux americains ca? Les francais ont ils recu de la haine americaine pour ca?

Je suis tellement degoute par leur attitude que les mots me manquent pour decrire mes sentiments envers eux. Qu’avont nous fait aux francais pour meriter ca?

On n’as pas besoins d’eux, on se battra, on surmontera et nous prospererons sans eux.

God Bless America.

I'M BAAAACCCKKK/ME REVOILAAAAAA

2005-08-22T21:07:00.000-04:00

Ahh, this five month vacation from blogging has refreshed me. I am therefore back with more to titillate your sleepy brains slowly withering away in the summer heat....

First of all, let's take a look at our subject matter: frogland. The little frenchies are pessimistic about tomorrow says their main media outlet. Check this out: http://news.tf1.fr/news/economie/0,,3238479,00.html

The french have it so "good", with their three months vacations, free healthcare (or is it free?), free education, etc. that they can't seem to see what really matters in this world and what the real causes of their anguish are.

The stunted french [they don't deserve a capital letter in my book] society has reached the summit of ridicule. 38% of the french [small f] feel more pessimistic about their own futures and that of their little tadpoles according to a 2004 (just published) french Department of Labor study. The study goes on to specify that the most worried segment of society are the 'working' adults, which means the 24-64 olds. Those who actually have to-sort of-make a living.

What a surprise! The college kids and the retired are not as worried about the future as working adults! You do indeed need a multi-million dollar government study to figure that out! Long live the french bureaucrat! (Which is a synonym of what went wrong with the evolution theory...)

The study states that 41% of our little froggie geniuses think that poverty and joblessness are caused by...you guessed it! BUSINESSES!!!! What circus do these guys live in? Businesses let people go, therefore businesses cause unemployment and poverty... I swear, we should get rid of that Alan Greenspan character and let these championship clowns run our economy... Their reasoning is akin to saying: "people in hospitals are sick and die, therefore hospitals make you sick and kill people". While this may occasionally be true, it should not reflect the reasoning skills of 41% of the members of the society ofluminaries that france [still no capital f] purports itself to be.

The truth is that taxes are too high, government regulations are too pervasive and suffocating, corruption is rampant in the highest spheres of government, interest rates are too high, taxes on businesses, including the ridiculously high contributions businesses have to make to the government health system stifle business and job creations, labor unions only represent themselves and oppose any constructive and practical solutions to production and labor problems and advance an antiquated marxist model... the list goes on and on...But Shoosh! don't you dare saying that in the froggie media lest risking something that would make "Mississippi Burning" look like an innocent day in the countryside. What else would you expect from people who spat, yes actually SPAT on Lance Armstrong as he was racing by during the last tour de france?

The European Community dream is also wearing thin, the number of froggies, seeing the European Community as a solution to the bankrupcy of their government services dropped by 10% between 2002 and 2004. Are some froggies eating their fish and starting to think?

Definitely, the only ray of ligth in the froggie's dreary life is the intense barrage of anti-americanism they are fed day-in and day-out in their media. Their hopes are brought up thinking that America is sinking in poverty, crime and despair, eventhough the latest available polls show Americans to be much more optimistic than the froggies. See: http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=585

That's All Folks! As you see, little has changed after taking the pulse of frogland five months later.

I'll be back with more brain drano soon.

Su servidor,
Elvatoloko

Hate Mail from the “Open Minded” and “Tolerant” / Courrier Haineux de la part des “Esprits Ouverts” et “Tolerants”

2005-03-11T12:09:00.000-05:00

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I received this yesterday, I guess this proves the point I’m trying to make in this blog. The fine literary style will surely be appreciated. (Original mail, in French, this is a translation) <>

jc XXXXX wrote:[Contact infor redacted by elvatoloko]

Poor little Frenchie with a Green Card

You may have been in the USA for ten years but you are still as French as can be since the only thing you have found to stand out is to shit on France by telling stories known to most French but that the rednecks of Virginia do not know. Go ahead, keep on jerking off filling your blog and we should soon find you butt f---ing with nopasaran and his girlfriend W.

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To which I answered:

<>I like that, the heinous little Frenchie, who, unable to refute the arguments presented, resorts to lowly personal attacks. This really demonstrates that W. , No-Pasaran, Chic Type and I are right, we really touch a nerve when we give you a glimpse of the truth…My buddies the-Rednecks-from-Virginia, as you say, know much more than you imagine. Your prejudice, burnt into your mind by the leftist media and above all by your Marxist professors, who lead you to judge “rednecks”, lead you to impute opinions to groups you have only known through your TV screen. Your narrow-mindedness is appalling for being a member of the “luminaries society” that France purports to be… You are only capable of tolerance towards the groups approved by those who are manipulating your mind. The forebears of the-Rednecks-from-Virginia shed their blood on the damned French soil twice before, there will be no third act…. <>

GOD BLESS AMERICA
GOD BLESS VIRGINIA’S REDNECKS <>

John.

<>PS: By the way, I do not “shit” on anybody. I just wipe away the dew on the mirror, if you see excrements there, it’s not my fault.

J’ai recu ca hier, ca montre bien que j’ai touche un nerf avec ce blog.

Le fin style literaire sera sans doute apprecie.

jc XXXXX wrote: [information presonelle efface par elvatoloko]

Pauvre Petit Francais a cate verte

Tu es peut-être aux USA depuis dix ans mais tu es
toujours aussi français car le seul truc que tu es
trouvé pour te rendre interessant c'est de chier sur
la france en racontant des histoires que la plupart
des français connaissent mais pas les redneck de la
virginie.
Allez continue de te branler en remplissant ton blog
et normalement bientôt on te devrait te trouver en
pleine sodomie avec nopasaran et sa copine W.

Voici ma reponse:

J'aime ca, le franchouillard hargneux comme un roquet, qui, faute de pouvoir refuter les arguments avances, fait de basses attaques personnelles. Definitivement, ca prouve que W., No Pasaran, Chic Type et moi avons raison, on touche bien un nerf quand on vous donne un apercu de la verite...Mes potes les-Rednecks-de-la-Virginie, comme tu dis, en savent bien plus long que ce que tu crois. Ce sont tes prejuges, inqulques par les medias gauchistes et surtout tes profs marxisants, qui t'amenent a juger les "Rednecks", a imputer des opinions a des groupes que tu ne connais que par le bias de ton petit ecrant. Une telle etroitesse d'esprit est efarante de la part d'un membre de la "societe des lumieres" que se veut etre la France...Tu n'est capable de faire preuve de tolerance que pour ce qui est approuve par ceux qui manipulent ta pensee. Les aieuls des Rednecks de la Virginie on vu couler leur sang sur le maudit sol Francais par deux fois, il n'y aura pas de troisieme reprise...

GOD BLESS AMERICA

GOD BLESS VIRGINIA'S REDNECKS...

John

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PS: En passant, je ne "chie" sur personne, j'enleve juste la buee du miroir, si tu y vois des excrements, ce n'est pas de ma faute...

Ten Questions which would instill terror in a French history teacher

2005-03-10T04:18:00.000-05:00

1) Why do we find the bloodiest and most corrupted regimes in the former French colonies? (Cambodge, French Indo-China, Central African Republic, Niger, Togo, Haiti etc…)

2) Why does France support those regimes to this day with
consequent economic subsidies which are then diverted to the Swiss bank accounts of those governants or are recycled in part into the campaign funds of French political parties? (The vast majority of the 21 French-speaking African countries are brutal dictatorships supported by France)

3) Why did Mitterrand (former president and national hero) work with the Vichy regime of Marshal Petain (a Hitler collaborator)?
“ Francois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was born on October 26, 1916, the son of a railroad stationmaster. During World War II, Mitterrand was a soldier, then a prisoner of war. Later, he was a clerk in the Vichy government and after the Germans occupied the Vichy zone, Mitterrand formed a Resistance group in the spring of1943.A recent biography revealed Mitterrand flirted with fascism as a young man and was also, for a time, an admirer of the pro-Nazi collaborationist leader Marchal Petain”
The author indicated that Mitterrand himself has NEVER hidden that fact and that he even helped the author with his research. (Mitterrand was also par of the famed “Resistance”, sure, not before 1943, it’s amazing how history is full of Nazi collaborators who became last minute heros of the “Resistance”). This is none other than the proverbial selective memory of the French at work here, just as much as censorship implemented by the whole leftist machine which controls the press, the media and education.

4) Why is it that Mitterrand, who had tapped the phones of the most prominent French journalists and other VIPs, whas never charged, judged or anything else while Richard Nixon in the U.S. was practically forced to resign because of a murky breaking into the national Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building and subsequent cover up???

Well the Watergate was small potatoes compared to the “Mitterrandgate”. Do I need to mention how Mitterrand had Greepeace’s Rainbow Warrior sunk in New Zealand so the France could peacefully continue the nuclear destruction of the Mururoa Atolls which populations ware evacuated and exiled…and many other dirty tricks he played on the French people and the rest of the world. (AIDS contaminated blood scandals, political and financial scandals)

5) Why does the history curriculum of the French ministry of education concentrates almost exclusively on Ancient History, the kings, the French revolution, the empire, the 100 year war, Napoleon, WWI, and so little on modern history??
But my child, it’s because only historical hindsight allows you to gain an impartial view of history..My a_ _ ! It’s more convenient that way, the old timers who lived through those events are not there any more to talk about it…and everything can be manipulated to one’s advantage.

6) Why are Senators, in France, elected by an electoral college constituted exclusively of politicians (rotten politicians that is) and not by the people like in the United States???

But my child, in the United States, the PRESIDENT, is elected by an electoral college…Yes, but in the States, the electoral college is not necessarily constituted exclusively of politicians, furthermore, every state of the Union has an equal number of Electors for each party, and the party which received the most votes FROM THE PEOPLE wins the votes of all the electors for that state. It’s not some sort of sham like in France where the office of Senator is a quasi lifetime post and a side track for politicians who LOST general elections. i.e Dominique Voynet, Chalres Pasqua etc., who besides their fat salaries, personal chauffeur, luxurious housing, elite security etc. also benefit from parliamentary immunity from prosecution…This is Democracy a la French.

7) Why did France sell nuclear reactors capable of enriching uranium to Saddam Hussein??? (Osirak reactors, which were developed thanks to a technological exchange program between the U.S. and their purported ally, France.)
See:http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/docs/41osi.html

But my child, these reactors have a peaceful purpose, to produce electricity.
But, teacher, why would a country with the second largest reserves of crude oil in the world and who could burn all the oil they wanted for FREE to produce electricity, would spend billions to build water-hungry nuclear plants in a desert?? (We are in the same shit with Iran now…) This does not make sense!
That’s exactly what Israel thought and that’s why Mossad agents
destroyed these reactors in the port hangars of Marseille where they were
awaiting shipment to Iraq. This is how the building of the Bomb in Iraq was
averted. In spite of this, France still financed the construction of two nuclear plants there (with reactors which could not enrich uranium this time around). These nuclear plants were later bombed by U.S. and Israeli planes in 1991 and 2003. Watch out for the kickbacks which greatly helped the financing of the political campaigns of our dear president Chirac, a intimate friend of Saddam since their first meeting in 1974. French arm sales to Irak (over 20 billion dollars) fed Dassault Industries [The major French defense equipment manufacturer] and also filled the coffers of Chirac’s RPR (Assembly for the Republic) party while the Mitterrand’s socialist part financed itself with Urbat-Gracco [A front construction company operated by the socialist part which obtained public work contracts for the firm which over-billed the government and then siphoned the difference to the Socialist Party]

8) Why did France help the bloodthirsty Hutus in Rwanda??
See: http://www.franksmyth.com/clients/FrankSmyth/frankS.nsf/0/d261b03aec46b48185256b7b00790670?OpenDocument and also http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23212 for an answer… French arms exports combined with countering the “Anglo-Saxon” influence in this part of Africa was well worth a few hundred thousand innocent lives…

9) Why is it that in France, we always talk about Americans and oil, and NEVER of France and Oil?? After all, wasn’t it France, through Elf [The major French oil company, partly owned by the French government] which had juicy oil deals with Saddam’s Iraq?? (See http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cahier/irak/repriseactivite-petrole (Please note that Elf as a government-private sector joint venture is under French governmental control, unlike American oil companies in which the U.S. government do not own any stake. You can play around with a little research on the relationships between Elf and the French government. http://www.rfi.fr/Fichiers/evenements/elf/index.asp You must read the book by Eva Joly (Former Judge who was forced to return to her native Norway after dealing with the Elf scandal) See http://www.acontresens.com/livres/15.html (Available on Amazon France.)
Another juicy oil scandal is appearing on the horizon with the buddy-buddy relationship between the French Italian oil concern Total-Fina with the dictatorship in Burma (Myanmar) See http://burma.total.com/en/contexte/p_1_2.htm (And they boast about it!!! and http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/total.html and finallyhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,13373,1325033,00.html

10) Why is it that when the French discuss the Viet Nam war in history class, the REAL causes of the war linked to the French colonization of that country are not mentioned ? Tell me about the bloody repression of the communists there by the French army on June 17, 1930, tell me about Admiral Jean Decoux , named at the helm of Viet Nam by the Vichy government??? See http://www.hotkey.net.au/~marshalle/chrono1/chrono1.htmFor the grand finale, go to this website: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jacques.morel67/ccfo/crimcol.pdf and download this excellent document of french conscience outside its borders (112 pages) and rattle off the long chronological list to your teacher, and ask him/her to give you details about it, he/she will at first be speechless, her/his lower lip trembling, then will tell you in a piercing tone “where did you find this ?”, “This does not come from a reliable source !” “You would be better off to study the government issued textbooks!” Yeah right! Don’t think outside the approved boundaries, ‘cause you would be risking a hard fall (To be translated by discovering the truth) This being said, to graduate from High School, regurgitate what they have taught you, otherwise “they” will cut you down. Just keep the defiant smile of the one who knows more than the sheep seated beside him.

I recommend the following books” MONTALDO (Jean). Mitterand et les 40 voleurs... Paris, Albin Michel (1994) (available at Amazon France, of course)Est-ce dans ce monde là que nous voulons vivre ?de Eva Joly, Chez Folio (Amazon France)La Machine à trahir : Rapport sur le délabrement de nos institutionsde Arnaud Montebourg Chez Folio (Amazon France)L'obsession anti-américaine : Son fonctionnement - Ses causes - Ses inconséquencesde Jean-François Revelhttp://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2266133403/qid=1109405748/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/171-0976053-1619460And if you feel you can read in EnglishThe French Betrayal of Americaby KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN (Available on Amazon.com)http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400053668/qid=1109405696/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/171-0976053-1619460

You must have noticed by now that almost all of the articles and other sources cited above are written in English. There is a reason behind that… it’s called censorship through the media and governmental pressure and the unique train of though acceptable to French society which results from that. This being said, they will tirelessly tell you that the U.S. are not innocents. Which is true in some regards, the CIA, the U.S. Armed forces have also been involved in unsavory actions, the difference being that in the U.S. official censorship is practically non-existent, such matters are discussed, scrutinized to death in the U.S. The sources discussing these matters are countless and very accurate. The shocking hypocrisy so characteristic of France, its complete inability to self-criticize is what I am trying to make apparent here. If you are up for it, I can also steer you towards some excellent sources regarding the secret wars of the CIA and other topics. Be careful when you ask these questions to your teachers, I cannot offer any guarantee as to their reactions no the grades which will result.. Believe me, been there, done that…
That’s about it.
Take care and let me know what you think of all that.

John

A Family Matter/ Une Affaire de Famille

2005-03-02T18:34:00.000-05:00

The text below is the result of an email conversation between my mom, who lives in France, and I regarding the dark past of that country.

You are right, all government have “some” skeletons in their closets, what enrages me is that in France, there is this sort of conspiracy between the media, the political world (all sides), the judicial world, the “intellectuals” and other VIP’s to ignore everything about it. In short, it is NEVER discussed in France, not in the movies, not on TV, not on the radio, barely in the newspaper that about 5% of the masses (if that) ever read and ABOVE ALL, not in school. Only some writers dare mention it, risking to be chastised by the media by the media and the intelligentsia. Whereas in the other “civilized” countries (especially in the Anglo-Saxon ones) these things are out in the open, the subject of many documentaries, books, scholarly papers, movies, are part of university syllabuses etc. etc. It’s a little like religion, exploring all the facets of the matter serves as a sort of penance and catharsis, however, in France the mere existence of its dark actions is denied, this results in a fanaticized populace without even knowing what for and without any understanding of where they are coming from. This allows France to cast itself as the great lecture giver without the French finding anything troubling about it. I think that all this is at the root of the sinister atmosphere and apathy, which plagues French society. No one believes in anything anymore, since everything that is fed to the masses daily is based on hypocrisy, lies and the self interest of the governants and politically powerful who play with the people like with puppets. That fantasy life orchestrated for the profit of the politicians and their cronies, has dulled the society’s perception of reality and put out any desire to live and progress. Mitterand was the maestro for a long time, now his system has been institutionalized, by his faithful disciple Chirac. As it is, the significant these two governed together made them very much alike. Playing the puppet, turns you into one, unable to move, to think or speak without the puppeteer.

This is what is serious…

>
> Tu as raison, tous les gouvernements trainent "des"
> casseroles, mais ce qui m'ennerve en France, c'est
> qu'il y a comme une certaine conspiration entre les
> medias, le monde politique (de tout bords), le monde
> juridique les "intellectuels" et autres personalites
> pour ignorer tout cela. En bref, on en parle JAMAIS
> en France, ni dans les films, ni a la tele, ni a la
> radio a peine dans les journaux qu'environs 5% (et
> encore) de la populace lit et SURTOUT PAS a l'ecole.
> Seuls quelques auteurs osent en parler, au risque
> d'etre degommes (surtout figurativement) par les
> medias et les Zintellectuels. Tandis que dans les
> autres pays dits civilises (Surtout anglo-saxons) ces
> choses-la ne se cachent pas, font l'objet
> d'innombrables reportages, livres, sujets d'etude,
> sujets de films, sont au programme dans les
> universites etc etc. C'est un peu comme la religion,
> explorer le sujet sous tous les angles sert de
> repentiment et de catharsis, mais en France, on ne
> reconnait meme pas les faits, ce qui donne une
> populace qui se fanatise sans savoir pourquoi et sans
> meme comprendre d'ou ils viennent. Cela permet a la
> France de se prendre pour une grande donneuse de
> lecons, sans que son peuple n'y voit rien de
> troublant. Je pense que tout cela est a la source de
> la sinistrose et de l'apathie qui sclerose la societe
> francaise. On ne croit plus a rien, car tout ce qui
> est donne a gaver aux francais au jour le jour est
> base sur l'hypocrisie, la faussete et les interets
> particuliers des dirigeants et puissants politiques
> qui jouent avec le peuple comme des marionettes.
> Cette vie dans une fantaisie orchestree pour le
> benefice de la classe politique et leurs accolytes
> finit par emousser la perception de la realite et
> etein le desir de vivre et progresser. Mitterand a
> longtemps ete chef d'orchestre, maintenant son systeme
> s'est intitutionalise, avec son fidele disciple,
> Chirac. Comme quoi, a force de cohabiter, on finit par
> se ressembler. A force de jouer les marionettes, on en
> devient une, qui ne peut pas ni boujer, ni penser, ni
> parler sans le marionettiste.
>
> C'est ca qui est grave...

Dix questions qui terrorisent les profs francais d'histoire-geo

2005-02-26T03:52:00.000-05:00

J'ai envoye cet email a un jeune etudiant francais avec qui je correspond de temps en temps.

10 questions qui font trembler les profs d’histoire au lycee en France

1) Pourquoi trouve-ton les regimes les plus sanglants et corrompus dans les anciennes colonies Francaises? (Cambodge-Indochine Francaise, Republique Centrafricaine, Niger, Haiti etc…)

2) Pourquoi la France soutient-elle ces regimes jusqu’a ce jour a grand coups d’aides economiques qui partent tout droit dans les comptes Suisses de ces dirigeants ou sont recycles en partie dans les campagnes politiques des partis Francais??? (Des 21 pays francophones d’Afrique la majorites sont des dictatures sanguinaires, soutenues par la France)

3) Pourquoi Mitterand (hero national) travaillat-il avec le regime de Petain/Vichy ?
“ Francois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was born on October 26, 1916, the son of a railroad stationmaster. During World War II, Mitterrand was a soldier, then a prisoner of war. Later, he was a clerk in the Vichy government and after the Germans occupied the Vichy zone, Mitterrand formed a Resistance group in spring 1943.
A recent biography revealed Mitterrand flirted with fascism as a young man and was also, for a time, an admirer of the pro-Nazi collaborationist leader Marchal Petain” Cet auteur indique que Mitterand lui-meme n’as JAMAIS cache ceci et a meme aide l’auteur dans ses recherches. De plus il a fait de la resistance (Mouais, en 43, pas avant. Comme l’histoire est replete de collabos qui sont devenus resistants de la derniere heure !). C’est la proverbiale memoire selective franchouillarde qui est a metre en cause du meme que la censure de tout l’appareil gauchiste qui controle la presse, les mediats et l’education nationale.
4) Pourquoi, Mitterand qui avait mis sur ecoute la plupart des journalistes importants en France, sans parler de nombreuses autres personalites, n’a jamais ete accuse ni juge, ni rien. Tandis que aux Etats Unis, Richard Nixon a ete presque force a demissione a cause d’une affaire de cambriolage dans des bureaux du parti Democrate (Watergate) ???. Eh be le Watergate c’etait du pipi de chat compare au “Mitterangate” Faut il mentionner comment Mitterand a fait couler le Raibow Warrior de Greenpeace en Nouvelle Zelande pour pouvoir continuer en paix la destruccion des atolls de Mururoa dont les populations furent evacuees et delocalisees…ainsi que d’innombrables mechancetes envers les Francais, (Sang Contamine, affaires diverses) et les peoples du monde…

5) Pourquoi le programme d’histoire de l’education nationale se concentre sur l’antiquite, les rois, la revolution, l’empire, la guerre de 100 an, Napoleon, la premiere guerre mondiale et si peu sur l’histoire moderne??

Mais mon enfant c’est par ce que seul le recul historique permet d’avoir une vision impartiale. Mon C--!! C’est par ce que comme ca on oublie, les petit vieux qui l’on vecu ne sont plus la pour en parler… et on peut tout manipuler a sa guise.

6) Pourquoi les Senateurs, En France sont elus par d’autres homes/femmes politiques (pourris politiques) et non par le people comme aux Etats Unis???

Mais mon enfant, aux Etats Unis, le PRESIDENT est elu au suffrage indirect... Oui, mais aux USA, les grand electeurs ne sont pas des politiques, des conseillers generaux, maires et autres, de plus, dans le college electoral Americain, chaque etat a un nombre egal de grands electeurs pour chaque parti, et c’est le canditat qui remporte chaque l’etat qui recoit les votes de ses grand electeurs, ce n’est pas une magouille politique comme en France ou le senat est un poste quasi a vie et une voie de garage pour politiques qui on PERDU les elections directes dans leurs circonscriptions exemple: Dominique Voynet, Charles Pasqua et autres, qui en plus de leur gros salaire, chauffeur, domicile de function, securite d’elite etc., beneficient de l’immunite parlementaire… C’est ca la democracie a la Francaise….
7) Pourquoi la France avait-elle vendu des reacteur nucleaire a Saddam Hussein?? (Reacteurs Osirak, qui avait ete concus grace a un echange de technologie nucleaire des Etats Unis avec leur suppose allie, la France) voir http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/docs/41osi.html

Mais mon enfant, ces reacteurs etait a but pacifique, pour faire de l’electricite. Mais Prof, pourquoi un pays qui possede les segondes plus grandes reserves petrolieres au monde et qui peuvent bruler tout le petrole qu’ils veulent gratis pour faire de l’electricite, depenserait des milliards pour construire des centrales nucleaires gourmandes en eau dans un desert?? (On est dans la meme merde avec L’Iran en ce moment) Ca ne tiens pas debout! C’est ce qu’Israel a aussi pense, et c’est pourquoi des agents du Mossad on fait sauter les hangars ou ces reacteurs etaient entreposes a Marseille, prets a etre expedies vers Irak. Ainsi fut evitee la construction de la bombe nucleaire en Irak. La France a tout de meme finance la construction des centrales nucleaires (Qui furent par la suite bombardees par Israel et les forces Americaines en 1991 et 2003), garre aux pots de vins et dessous de tables qui ont bien aide les campagnes politiques du cher president Chirac, grand amis de Saddam depuis 1974, date de leur premiere rencontre. Les ventes d’armes a L’Irak (plus de 20 milliards de Dollars) ont longtemps fait tourner Dassault Industries et remplis les coffres du RPR pendant que le parti socialiste se financait avec Urba-Gracco.

8) Pourquoi la France a-t’elle aide les sanguinaires Hutus au Rwanda???
Voir http://www.franksmyth.com/clients/FrankSmyth/frankS.nsf/0/d261b03aec46b48185256b7b00790670?OpenDocument et aussi http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23212 pour la reponse…. Les exportations d’armes francaises et contrer l’influence “anglo-saxonne” en Afrique valent bien quelques centainnes de milliers de vies…

9) Pourquoi en France parle-ton toujours des Americains et du petrole, et jamais de la France et du Petrole?? Apres tout, n’etai-ce pas la France, a travers d’Elf qui avait de juteux contrats d’exploitation du petrole dans l’Irak de Saddam?? (Voir http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cahier/irak/repriseactivite-petrole ( A noter qu’Elf, en tant que companie semi-gouvernementale est sous le controle de l’etat Francais, non pas comme les companies petrolieres Americaines qui n’appartiennent pas au gouvernement Americain. Amuses toit aussi avec un peu de recherche sur Elf et le pouvoir en France. http://www.rfi.fr/Fichiers/evenements/elf/index.asp A lire absolument…A lire absolument, le live d’Eva Joly (Ancienne Juge qui a ete obligee de rentrer a sa Norvege natale après avoir traite l’affaire Elf. Voir http://www.acontresens.com/livres/15.html (Disponible sur Amazon France.)

Une autre affaire petroliere interresante de dessine a l’horizon avec le copinage de la companie petroliere Italo-Francaise Total-Fina avec les dictateurs de Birmanie
(Myanmar) Voir http://burma.total.com/en/contexte/p_1_2.htm (Et ils s’en
vantent!! Et aussi http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/total.html et enfin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,13373,1325033,00.html

10) Pourquoi quant on parle de la guerre du Viet Nam dans les cours d’histoire de l’education nationale, ne parle-ton pas de ses vraies causes liees a la colonization Francaise ??? Parlez mois de la repression sanglante des communistes par le regime Francais le 17 Juin 1930, parlez-moi de L’Amiral Jean Decoux, nomme a la tete du Viet Nam par le gouvernement de Vichy ??? Voir http://www.hotkey.net.au/~marshalle/chrono1/chrono1.htm

Pour Finir en Beaute, vas sur ce site : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jacques.morel67/ccfo/crimcol.pdf et telecharge cet excellent document de la conscience Francaise hors de ses Frontieres (112 pages quand meme) et recite la longue liste chronologique a ton prof, et demande lui des precisions, il va d’abord rester muet avec la levre inferieure tremblante, et après il va te dire d’une voix sifflante “ou as-tu trouve ca?? ce n’est pas une source fiable !…Il vaudrait mieux que tu etudie bien tes manuels de l’education nationale, et ne penses pas en dehors des limites imposes, au risque de te casser la figure (a traduire, decouvrir la verite) Ceci dit, pour passer le bac, vomit ce qu’ils ton appris, sinon “ils” vont te saigner. Garde juste le sourire narquois de celui qui en sait plus longs que les moutons assis a cote de lui

Je te conseille les livres suivants:

MONTALDO (Jean). Mitterand et les 40 voleurs... Paris, Albin Michel (1994) (Sur Amazon France, bien sur)

Est-ce dans ce monde là que nous voulons vivre ?de Eva Joly, Chez Folio (Amazon France)

La Machine à trahir : Rapport sur le délabrement de nos institutionsde Arnaud Montebourg Chez Folio (Amazon France)

L'obsession anti-américaine : Son fonctionnement - Ses causes - Ses inconséquencesde Jean-François Revel
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2266133403/qid=1109405748/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/171-0976053-1619460

Et sit tu te sent d’attaque pour lire en Anglais

The French Betrayal of Americaby KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN (Disponible sur Amazon France)
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400053668/qid=1109405696/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/171-0976053-1619460

Tu t’est rendu compte que presque tout les articles et sources diverses qui soutiennent les faits ci-dessus sont en Anglais. Il y a une bonne raison pour cela…Ca s’appelle la censure a travers les media et l’intimidation gouvernementale et la pensee unique qui en est le resultat.

Ceci dit, on te repondra sans cesse que les Etats Unis ne son pas blanc mouton. Ce qui est vrai, la CIA, L’armee Americaine, les companies petrolieres Americaine on aussi commis de nombreux crime, la difference c’est qu’au Etats Unis il n’y a pas de censure officielle ni officieuse, tout cela a ete discute, remache et decortique a outrance aux USA. Les sources qui en parlent sont innombrales et tres precises. Cette hypocrisie cuisante si caracterisque de la France, sa totale incapacite a l’auto critique est ce que j’essaie de render apparent.

Si cela t’interesse, je peut aussi t’indiquer d’excellentes sources sur les guerres secretes de la CIA et les autres sujets mentionnes ci dessus.

Pardonne moi pour les fautes d’ortographe (Dix ans sans ecrire le francais, ca se voi) et pour avoir mis aussi longtemps a t’envoyer tout cela.

Fait gaffe quand meme quand tu poses ces questions a tes profs, je ne peut pas guarantir leur reactions ni les notes qui vont suivre.. Crois mois, je suis passé par la….

Sur ce,

Fait attention a toi. et Fait moi savoir ce que tu penses te tout cela.

John

France wants the oil of the poor and the oppressed ??? Noooo...

2005-02-26T00:45:00.000-05:00

'Democracy polluting' Total pushed to exit Myanmar

PARIS, Feb 21 (AFP) - Some 40 organisations launched an international campaign here Monday aimed at pressuring the French oil giant Total to pull out of Myanmar, where they said the company's activities support a military dictatorship, a French activist collective announced.
The campaign is led by the International Federation for Human Rights, Actions Birmanie of Belgium and the French collective, which is called "Total pollutes democracy."
"Total must pull out of Burma (Myanmar) not only for having taken advantage of army-imposed forced labour, between 1995 and 1998, for the construction of the Yadana gas pipeline but also because it fills the coffers of a predatory regime," Olivier De Schutter,
if(flashinstalled == 2){document.write(" ");}else{document.write("");} secretary general of the International Federation for Human Rights, told a press conference.
"It is not possible to pretend, as Total does, that you can deal with Burma without enabling the junta to increase its power.
"The entire economy is in the hands of a small group of soldiers who do nothing for the population," he charged.
"Forty percent of the budget is allocated to military spending; 0.4 percent to health and education, according to the United Nations Development Program."
If Total withdraws from Myanmar, according to the French collective, "one would hope that France would finally support the adoption of significant economic sanctions against the Burmese junta, as the democratic movement in the country has asked."

Just another great example of the Frenchie's HYPOCRISY when it comes to oil...After all, this fits right into their historical exploitation and oppression of third world populations. Africa is the prime example of this French 'Manifest Destiny".

FRENCH PARANO, by ChicType Translated as promised....

2005-02-10T13:08:00.000-05:00

French Parano by Chic Type

Translation courtesy of elvatoloko

Sometimes I realize that my outlook on my environment is rather negative. I wonder whether I should see a shrink to explore the possibility of altering some paradigms that unsettle my spirit. I must admit that I harbor a rather negative view of society, of my country, of the people populating this country [France] and of the entire system in general. I sometimes wonder whether I have completely fallen prey to paranoia. (The mere fact that I am pondering this is a telltale sign.)

To summarize the debilitating ailment I suffer from, Doctor, I cannot shake off the patently false idea that I live in an ultra-totalitarian society. Just like that. A “Brave New World” type of society.

-Can you expand on that?

-Sure, but it is so confused in my mind; it is a conjunction of loosely related more or less notable facts, with tenuous links between them. It’s also made up of some perceptions and feelings which I cannot prove. I don’t know… For example: I have the feeling that the police/justice system is not geared to protect me. I think, probably erroneously, but I can’t stop thinking in this fashion, that if I am robbed or assaulted in the street, the case will be automatically closed, without conclusions. I know that if my telephone service provider decides to cheat me out of 10-20 Euros here and there, I will not be able to right this wrong. I know that if tomorrow I lend money to someone and this someone refuses to pay me back, I will not be able to do anything about it legally. If I am assaulted and defend myself with anything within my reach, I know that I could be charged with assault myself. I know that if the government or any other power decides to, I don’t know, to erect a relay antenna in front of my house, I will only have the right to shut up, and that in the best scenario, I would receive mere symbolic compensation. If a surgeon commits serious medical malpractice on my person, such as inoculating me with a virus, disfigurement or gravely injures me, I will receive in the best case scenario a small pension similar to the RMI [a welfare check] paid by the malpractice insurance. If tomorrow a gang of lowlifes beats me up and are later nabbed by the cops, I know that they will be released the same day, that the trial will not occur, or if it does occur, it will be in a very long time, will cost me an arm and a leg, and that the damages paid, in the best case scenario, will not cover the legal expenses or will not match the damages inflicted. I know that if a neighbor is busting my balls, on the one hand I will not be able to settle the matter myself, man to man, and on the other hand that the police/justice will not do anything about it. I know that numerous classes of people, let’s call them the “VIPs”, can inflict anything upon me, and aside loosing me as a client, they are virtually untouchable. A lawyer can screw me, a physician can make me sick, my bank can charge me hidden fees, my telephone service provider can flaunt all the rules of commerce, a huissier [bailiff, sort of legally commissioned clerk] can con me, a notary can help himself to my property, a politician can favor his friends etc…And in the face of this, it is practically impossible for me to have my rights respected (expensive, time-consuming, complicated), and I know that I would find myself isolated before ultra-powerful institutions, and if their wrong is established, the compensation will be insignificant etc, etc, etc…

I also harbor the notion that the system is hermetically closed at all levels. Economically, all the spots seem occupied and it seems to me that you have to request authorizations at all levels to create something, all human activities are completely supervised. The mere creation of a market stand or the establishment of a window cleaning business is a major legal and accounting headache. Furthermore, it seems that without a significant capital investment, it is impossible to create anything in France. A simple small business such as a newspaper stand or sandwich joint cost an arm and a leg. On the political level, it is also completely airtight, if you haven’t gone to ENA [National School of Administration] or Poli. Sci. [The French equivalent to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Gov’t], that is if you aren’t one of those who have been wanting to be in politics since puberty, you have no chance of ever participating in it. In the world of the media or show business, everything seems to work according to the “I scratch your back, you scratch my back” principle, good old boys networks, pillow promotions, nepotism etc. Regarding land occupation, it seems that all the cool places are hyper-expensive, inaccessible to the middle class, when you want to build it is a legal headache, and when you are poor, you find yourself stuck in multiracial ghetto-like project complexes. Renting is extremely complex due to the required guarantees so that moving from one apartment to another is a difficult proposition for many etc, etc, etc.

I believe that the creative and productive power of individuals is methodically annihilated. France’s past strength was its creators, its artists, its authors, its artisans, its inventors, its cooks, etc. All these independent people which main talent was to have imagination and craftsmanship and to freely exercise it, in an independent fashion. Nowadays, the creative mind works in communication and is much less paid than the salesman. That who can write, is a censored columnist, rides the metro, and lives in efficiency while the publicity space salesman earns five times his salary. The entry-level engineer with a master’s degree earns as much as the secretary and will never earn more than the average salesman. The software engineer does the dirty work, earns less that the software user. The artisan earns less that the art dealer. The inventor is robbed. The cook becomes an hourly employee in the food industry. All this small world teeters between unemployment, underpaid work or the unrewarding world of freelancing. While the creative and productive jobs are devalued, the unproductive and non-creative functions of the legal industry, financial world, whores etc are spared the economic crisis. Creativity is no longer valued and independence is discouraged.

I consider politicians and the government in France to be completely corrupt. Corruption has reached such levels in France that it has become legal. The big corruption/favoritism/unlawful wealth acquisition scandals virtually never result in any convictions. Furthermore, favoritism, the hiring of friends, the bestowing of positions on powerful administration boards and at the helm of large corporations upon high level government employees (Jaffré Scandal, Messier Scandal…) are considered to be normal occurrences. I have arrived at the conclusion that no bidding process rests on quality/price considerations but are the result of occult transactions. I think that no other country in the world aside from France, except for some African countries or communist China maybe, practice business/political collusion to the same degree as France. In general, I think that to reach a certain political level in France, you need to be a super son-of-a-bitch, and that an honest guy has no change of ever really controlling France.

I also consider that the world of ideas is suffering advanced sclerosis in France, that the intellectual circles is controlled by a small group of editors, media figures and network personalities, on the one hand, uninteresting ideas, no to say appallingly stupid, and not shared by people in general, enjoy disproportionate exposure, until the people itself adopts them, and on the other hand, a whole sector of thought is blocked by the same individuals. There is a refusal to debate in France, it’s the “Pensee Unique” [Single Train of Thought] phenomenon which we can’t shake off. If you add the “politically correct” phenomenon… The slightest deviation from causes the independent thinker to be slaughtered by the intelligentsia and media. To gain access to the Parisian intellectual circles, where everything originates, you have to accept all sorts of compromises. In the end, a limited number of “intellectuals” all harboring similar ideas, exert a monopoly on the quasi totality of media and enjoy a certain power in the political, economic and media world. (BHL, Minc, Attali, Sollers, Adler, Rufin, Beigbeder…), and those who express opposing ideas are often considered mortal enemies and are prohibited from appearing on TV, the radio and from publishing. Etc. etc, etc.

I also think that in the world of creation and culture in France is totally dependent on the current system. The movie industry only survives thanks to government subsidies and the financing of TV networks closely related to the government. The distributors are also closely linked to the government (Gaumont [principal French studio] = owned by Seydoux, Bollore, Dassault which are government contractors, UGC= Owned by infamous Vivendi which is another government contractor, MK2+ Owned by Marin Karmitz= a leftist activist). The world of Art survives entirely on Ministry of Culture funding. There are practically no private museums or foundations in France. TV creation is dependent on state TV networks and even the private networks are dependent on the State for their broadcasting privileges. All the newspapers, magazines, books are in the hands of companies linked to the government. Even the world of music is dependant on the major studios which are dependant on shareholders whose main client is the State. In short, no truly vocal opposition can surface from this cloak; a creator would have to learn how to please those circles before emerging. This seems to explain the platitude of French creation of late, all sectors included. For example, I think that authors such as Manson, Eminem, Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, would have been censored at the very beginning, or relegated to the margins, without any media exposure. TV shows out of the mainstream such as South Park and the X files would have been completely morphed to meet “production guidelines”. Cameron, Carpenter or Verhoven would never have been able to distribute their first movies etc, etc, etc.

I think that the current system works against the people. I think that immigration, for example, is not there to favor the people, I think its calculated to divide to better control and break any sentiment of belonging to a people (people which could rebel itself against the government). Maintaining a high level of unemployment has been calculated to make people dependent on the system. The systematic revision of the past and identity of the French people is not done with the intent of progress but with the intent of annihilating any pride and any sentiment of belonging, so that the people turn to pride and belonging to the republican system of government only. If more than 50% of the GDP is spent on government appropriations and that all the social services (unemployment, health, retirement, etc…) and education are a government monopoly, it’s not in a spirit of fairness, but a ploy to make the individual dependent of a central government. Maintaining a certain level of crime and insecurity allows the government to affirm its power and to become indispensable. The divisions within French society and the dissentions are advantages for the government that works towards maintaining them. Etc, etc, etc.

I also believe that the government in place is ultra-powerful, that it is impossible to escape from it, and that it is impossible to topple it as well. It is omnipresent, its dogmas are repeated continuously. It intervenes at all levels of existence. It has its hand in births, deaths, unions, sexuality, everywhere. Furthermore, the revolutionary protest experience in France has resulted in the fact that today’s State has armored itself at all levels. Protests such as those of May 1968 would be impossible today (Refer to the student strikes from 1986 to the present). The end of mandatory military service, the prohibitions to own weapons, the criminalization of self-defense and in parallel the ultra-professionalization of security services and the omnipresence of private security outfits prevents any confrontation with the State. Elections are the only recourse to change things; however, the various political parties do not offer any alternative to the current government. I think that there is no real opposition in France. UMP [Center right political party] and the PS [Center left Socialist Party] have virtually the same platforms and alternation between the two parties does not change anything. The small political parties serve the function of giving an illusion of democracy and at best dine on the political crumbs tossed to them (the bestowing of a ministry or labor union upon them keeps them happy). The FR [National Front, far right party] is a political scarecrow come election time, and at the same time, its electoral results prevent any new valid political party to challenge the UMP or PS. The FN is the dunce of French politics. We are in a quasi-single party system.

I believe that the republican [ of the republic, no ref. to U.S. politics here] doctrine has become as sort of religion. It has morphed into an official religion. It competes with the other religions. It’s an intolerant religion, not to believe in it turns you into a heretic and is severely punished. Its interpretation of human rights cannot be challenged. French politicians speak like priests, their speech generally dealing with how to think or perceive things, the feelings we must harbor, the love or rejection that must exist between us. Temporal and timeless power is in the hands of the same individuals. Etc, etc, etc.

Media express virtually the same ideas and the same outlook on all the important topics. All the media are dependent on the economic and political system, and have long ago stopped to exert their role of counter power. The media doest no seek to expose the reality of this country but to influence the people through manipulation, lies or omission, preventing protesters from seeing reality, lionizing collaborators to the system, giving a favorable view of those in power. Etc, etc, etc.

-There it is Doctor; this is how I see things. This terrible feeling of living in a totalitarian state, completely frozen and locked at all levels, is not easy to live with.

-I understand you. We will prescribe a few pills, you’ll get better, and if this does not work, we will give you a little round of electroshocks, how does that sound?

- Oh thanks Doctor!

Published by Chic Type

Translation from French courtesy of elvatoloko.

Aaahhhh L'A380 / Ooohhh The A380

2005-01-18T15:00:00.000-05:00

Alors, L'A380 s'envole, bien joue. Je suis sur que les franchouillards anti-americains ont les yeux ecarquilles de bonheur, eh be nous aussi. Voir ci-dessous: (Compile par moi, elvatoloko)

Pour les anti Americains: Lisez ceci:

"Airbus could not build the A380 without the significant support of American aerospace companies," said Allan C. McArtor, Chairman of Airbus North America.
En Francais:
"Airbus n'aurait pas pu construite l'A380 sans l'appui significatif des companies Americaines de l'aerospatiale." Allan McCantor, Directeur de Airbus Amerique du Nord.

Ma vision: C'est vous, les contribuables Europeens, qui payent, et c'est nous qui en profitons avec:

1) 50% des composants de l'A380 Made in USA (Source Airbus Industries North America)

2) 5 milliards de dollars depenses aux USA par Airbus (Source: Airbus Industries North America)

3) 100,000 emplois lies a Airbus aux USA. (Source Airbus Industries North America)

4) Airbus A 380 finance a 40% par les gouvernements des etats membres du consortium, la France, bien sur, assume la part du lion. (Source: Projet "Blue Sky" Deloitte & Touche, comptables internationaux)

Vive L'A380, Longue vie A Airbus, ayez d'autres idees comme ca plus souvent... ET MERCI BEAUCOUP LE CONTRIBUABLE FRANCAIS ET EUROPEEN.... La prochaine fois, faites le plus grand...

IN ENGLISH

So, the A380 takes fligh, Well Done. I'm sure the anti-American frenchies are staining their pants with pleasure, well so are we. See below: Compiled by Me, elvatoloko:

"Airbus could not build the A380 without the significant support of American aerospace companies," said Allan C. McArtor, Chairman of Airbus North America.

In my view: it is you, the European taxpayers who are footing the bill, and us the nasty Yanks who are benefiting from it with:

1) 50% of the components of the A 380 Made in USA (Source: Airbus Industries North America)

2) 5 billion dollars spent in the US by Airbus (Source: Airbus Industries North America)

3) 100,000 jobs in the US tied to Airbus (Source: Airbus Industries North America)

4) 40% of the Aibus A 380 project financed by the state governments members of the consortium, with France responsible for the lion's share, of course. (Source: Project "Blue Sky" Deloitte & Touche, International Accountants)

Hurray for the A380, Long live Airbus, have other ideas like this more often, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THE FRENCH AND EUROPEAN TAXPAYER.... Next time build a bigger one...

French Parano from ChicType

2005-01-14T04:26:00.000-05:00

mercredi 05 janvier
French parano
Parfois je me dis que ma façon de voir mon environnement est assez mauvaise. Je me demande s'il ne faudrait pas que je vois un psy pour évaluer la possibilité de changer un certain nombre de paradigmes qui perturbent mon esprit. Je dois admettre que j'ai une vision assez négative de la société, de mon pays, des gens qui peuplent ce pays et en gros du système tout entier. Je me demande parfois si je ne suis pas complètement parano (se poser la question est déjà un signe flagrant).
-Pour résumer le mal qui me ronge, Docteur, j'arrive pas à me débarrasser de l'idée, très certainement erronée, que je vis dans une société ultra-totalitaire. Carrément. Une société du type « meilleur des mondes ».
-Pouvez vous développer?
-Oui bien sûr, mais c'est assez embrouillé dans ma tête, c'est un ensemble de fait plus ou moins marquants, ayant des liens pas toujours évidents entre eux. C'est aussi un certain nombre d'impressions et de sentiments que je n'ai pas les moyens de prouver. Je ne sais pas... Par exemple;
J'ai le sentiment que le système police/justice n'est pas fait pour me protéger. Je me fait l'idée, sans doute fausse, mais j'ai du mal à penser autrement, que si on me vole ou on m'agresse dans la rue, l'affaire sera systématiquement classée sans suite. Je sais que si mon opérateur téléphonique décide de m'arnaquer de 10-20 euros par ci par là, je ne pourrais pas faire valoir mes droits. Je sais que si demain je prête de l'argent à quelqu'un et que ce quelqu'un refuse de me rembourser, je ne pourrais rien faire légalement. Si je me fait agresser et que je me défends avec ce que j'ai sous la main, je sais que je pourrais être accusé d'agression à mon tour. Je sais que si l'État ou une puissance quelconque décide, je sais pas, de mettre une antenne relais en face de chez moi, ou de construire une autoroute devant ma maison, je n'aurais le droit que de fermer ma gueule, et qu'au mieux le dédommagement sera proche du symbolique. Si un médecin fait une grave erreur médicale sur moi, m'inocule un virus ou m'estropie ou me défigure, j'aurais au mieux une petite pension style RMI que l'assurance du fautif paiera. Si demain une bande de racaille me tabasse et qu'ils se font gauler, je sais qu'ils seront dehors le jour même, que le procès n'aura pas lieu, ou dans longtemps, me coûtera très cher, et que les dommages payés, dans le meilleur des cas, ne dépasseront pas les frais de justice ou ne seront pas à la hauteur du dommage subits. Je sais que si un voisin me casse les couilles, d'une part je n'aurai pas le droit de régler l'affaire moi même à la loyale, et que de l'autre coté la justice/police ne fera rien. Je sais aussi que de très nombreuses catégories de la population, appelons les « les notables », peuvent me faire subir n'importe quoi n'importe comment, à part me perdre comme client, ils sont pratiquement inattaquables. Un avocat peut m'arnaquer, un médecin peut me rendre malade, ma banque peut m'imposer des frais cachés, mon assureur peut me tromper sur ses contrats, mon opérateur téléphonique peut biaiser toutes les règles du commerce, un huissier peut me spolier, un notaire peut se servir, un politicien peut favoriser ses amis, etc... et face à ça, il m'est pratiquement impossible de faire valoir mes droits (coûteux, long, compliqué), et je sais que je me retrouverais isolé face à des institutions ultra puissantes, et si la faute est reconnue, les réparations seront faibles. Etc, etc, etc.
J'ai d'autre part l'impression que le système est complètement verrouillé à tous les niveaux. Économiquement toutes les places me semblent prises et il me semble qu'il faut demander des autorisations à tous les niveaux pour créer quelque chose, toutes les activités humaines me semblent complètement encadrées. Ne serait ce que d'installer un étal sur un marché ou s'installer en tant que nettoyeur de vitre est une prise de tête juridique et comptable. D'autre part, j'ai l'impression que sans un gros capital de départ, on ne peut rien créer en France, rien qu'un petit commerce du type vente de journaux ou sandwicherie coûte les yeux de la tête. Au niveau politique c'est aussi complètement hermétique, si on a pas fait l'ENA ou Science Po, c'est à dire si on n'est pas de ceux qui ont voulu à l'adolescence être dans la politique, on a aucune chance d'y participer. Dans le milieu des médias ou du show business tout me semble fonctionner à coup de renvoie d'ascenseur, de copinage, de coucherie, de népotisme. Au niveau du partage du territoire, les endroits sympas sont hors de prix pratiquement inaccessible à la classe moyenne, quand on veut construire c'est toute une prise de tête juridique, et quand on est pauvre on se retrouve coincé dans des cités dortoirs multiraciales. Louer est extrêmement compliqué en raison des garanties demandées si bien que changer de logement est une affaire très difficile pour beaucoup. Etc, etc, etc.
Je crois de plus que la puissance créatrice et productrice des individus est méthodiquement annihilée. La force de la France était ses créateurs, ses artistes, ses auteurs, ses artisans, ses inventeurs, ses cuistos, etc. Tous ces gens indépendants dont le principale talent consistait à avoir de l'imagination et du savoir faire et de l'exercer librement, de manière indépendante. Aujourd'hui, le créatif travaille dans la communication et est beaucoup moins bien payé que le vendeur. Celui qui sait écrire est pigiste aux ordres, circule en métro et vit dans un studio tandis que le représentant en espace pub gagne 5 fois son salaire. L'ingénieur bac+5 débutant gagne autant que la secrétaire, et ne dépassera jamais le salaire du vendeur moyen. Le créateur de logiciel fait le boulot ingrat , est bien moins payé que celui qui exploite le logiciel. L'artisan d'art gagne moins que son négociant. L'inventeur se fait dépouiller. Le cuisto devient salarié dans l'industrie alimentaire. Tout ce petit monde oscille entre chômage et job sous payés ou dans l'univers ingrat des free-lance. Et alors que les métiers créatifs et productifs sont dévalués, les métiers improductifs et non-créatifs de juristes, financiers, vendeurs, pute etc. ne connaissant pas la crise. La créativité n'est plus reconnue et l'indépendance est découragée.
Je considère les hommes politiques et le pouvoir en France en général comme étant complètement corrompu. La corruption est même arrivé à un tel niveau en France qu'elle est devenue légale. Les grosses affaires de corruption/favoritisme/enrichissement n'aboutissent pratiquement jamais. D'autre part, le favoritisme, le placement d'amis, la remise de postes dans les conseils d'administration et aux têtes de grandes entreprises des fonctionnaires d'Etat (affaire Jaffré, Messier...) sont considérés comme des faits normaux. J'en suis par ailleurs venu à penser que pratiquement aucun appel d'offre ne repose sur des critères qualité/prix mais font l'objet de tractations occultes. Je pense qu'aucun pays au monde que la France, à part certain pays africains peut être, ou la Chine communiste, ne pratique autant la collusion entreprise/politique . D'une manière général, je pense que pour arriver à un certain niveau en politique en France, il faut être un super-enculé, et qu'un type honnête n'a aucune chance de diriger vraiment en France.
Je considère aussi que le monde des idées est totalement sclérosé en France, que le milieu intellectuel est entre les mains d'un petit groupe d'éditeurs, d'hommes de médias et d'hommes de réseaux, d'un coté des idées sans intérêts, voir consternantes de connerie, très peu partagées dans le peuple, obtiennent un écho démesuré, jusqu'à ce que le peuple les adoptent, et d'autre part, tout un pan de la pensé est bloqué par ces mêmes intervenants. Il y a un refus de débattre en France, c'est le phénomène « pensée unique » dont on arrive pas à se débarrasser. Ajouté à cela le phénomène « politiquement correct ». Le moindre penseur qui dévie se fait dégommer par les médias et l'intelligentsia en place. Pour accéder au milieu intello parisien, où tout se fait, il faut faire toutes sortes de compromissions. Enfin, un certain nombre « d'intellectuels » ayant à peut près tous les mêmes idées monopolisent quasiment tout les médias et ont une certaine puissance dans le monde politique, économique et médiatique (BHL, Minc, Attali, Sollers, Adler, Rufin, Beigbeder ...), et ceux qui ont des idées opposées sont souvent considérés comme des ennemis à abattre et sont interdits d'antenne et d'édition. Etc, etc, etc.
Je pense aussi que le milieu de la création et de la culture en France est complètement dépendant du système en place. Le cinéma ne fonctionne qu'avec des subventions d' État et le financement des chaînes de télévisions proches du pouvoir. Les distributeurs sont aussi très liés au pouvoir en place (Gaumont= Seydoux, Bolloré, Dassault=contrats d'Etat, UGC= Vivendi=contrats d'état, MK2=Marin Karmitz=militant de gauche). Le milieu de l'art est complètement sous perfusion du ministère de la culture. Il n'y a pratiquement pas de musées ou de fondations privées en France. La création télé est dépendante de la télévision d' État et même les chaînes privées sont dépendantes de l'État pour les autorisations d'émettre. Tout ce qui est journaux/magazine/livre est entre les mains de sociétés liées à l'État. Même le milieu de la musique se retrouve dépendant de majores qui sont dépendantes d'actionnaires qui ont comme client principal l'État. Bref, aucune expression réellement contestataire ne peut émerger de ce cloaque là, un créateur, pour percer, devra d'abord apprendre à plaire à ce milieu , ceci expliquant je pense la platitude de la création française, tous domaines confondus. Par exemple, je pense qu'en France des auteurs comme Manson, Eminem, Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy auraient été empêché de s'exprimer dès le début, ou relégué à la marge, sans relais dans les médias. Des émissions de télé comme X file, South Park et autres séries américaine décalées qu'on a aujourd'hui auraient été complètement dénaturées par « les impératifs de production ».Cameron, Carpenter ou Verhoven n'auraient jamais pu sortir leurs premiers films. Etc, etc, etc.
Je crois d'autre part que le système en place joue contre la population. Je pense par exemple que l'immigration n'est pas faite pour favoriser la population, je pense le contraire, c'est fait pour diviser pour mieux régner et casser le sentiment d'appartenir à un peuple (peuple qui pourrait se retourner contre le pouvoir en place). Maintenir le chômage à un niveau élevé a été voulu afin de rendre les gens dépendants du système d'Etat. Remettre en question systématiquement le passé et l'identité des français n'est pas pour faire progresser les gens, mais pour annihiler toute fierté et tout sentiment d'appartenance, pour que les gens se raccrochent à la fierté et à l'appartenance républicaine exclusivement. Si plus de 50% du PIB va au budget de l'État et que tous les systèmes de solidarité (chômage, santé, retraite, etc...)et l'éducation sont monopole d'Etat c'est pas par esprit de justice mais c'est pour rendre l'individu dépendant d'un pouvoir central. Maintenir un niveau d'insécurité permet à l'Etat de s'affirmer et de se rendre indispensable. Les divisions dans la société française et les dissensions sont des avantages pour le pouvoir qui fait en sorte de les maintenir. Etc, etc, etc.
Je crois aussi que le pouvoir en place est ultra-puissant, qu'il est impossible de lui échapper, qu'il est impossible de le renverser aussi. Il est omniprésent partout, ses dogmes sont rappelés en permanence. Il intervient à tous les niveaux de l'existence. Il s'occupe de la naissance, de la mort, des unions, de la sexualité, de tout. De plus l'expérience révolutionnaire et contestataire en France fait qu'aujourd'hui l'État s'est complètement blindé à tous les niveaux. Un mai 68 serait impossible aujourd'hui (cf grèves étudiantes depuis 1986). L'interruption du service militaire , l'interdiction des armes , la pénalisation de l'autodéfense et en parallèle l'ultra-professionnalisation des forces de maintiens de l'ordre et l'omniprésence des sécurités privées fait que la confrontation avec le pouvoir est devenue impossible. Il ne reste que les élections pour changer les choses, mais les différents partis ne proposent pas de vrais alternatives.
Je crois qu'il n'y a pas de vrais contre-pouvoir en France. UMP ou PS ont à peu prêt le même programme et passer d'un parti à l'autre ne change rien. Les petits partis sont là pour donner l'illusion de la démocratie et au mieux se contentent de miettes (il suffit de donner un ministère ou un syndicat pour que ces partis soient bien gentils). Le FN a un rôle de croque-mitaine dans les élections, et en même temps, par ses scores, il empêche à toutes nouvelles formations politique sérieuse de venir concurrencer l'UMP et le PS. Le FN est l'idiot utile de la politique Française. Nous somme quasiment dans une configuration du parti unique.
Je crois que la doctrine républicaine est devenue une sorte de religion. C'est devenu la religion officielle. Elle vient en concurrence avec les autres religions. C'est une religion intolérante, ne pas croire en elle fait de vous un hérétique et c'est sévèrement puni. L'interprétation faite des droits de l'homme ne peut pas être contestée. Les politiciens français aujourd'hui parlent comme des prêtres, leur discours concernent en général la manière dont il faut penser ou ressentir les choses, les sentiments que nous devons avoir, les liens d'amour ou de rejet qui doivent exister entre nous. Le pouvoir temporel et intemporel est entre les mains des mêmes personnes. Etc, etc, etc.
Les médias expriment à peut prêt les même idées et la même vision sur tous les sujets importants. Tout ces médias sont dépendants du système politique et économique, n'assument plus leur rôle de contre pouvoir depuis belle lurette, ne cherchent pas à exposer la réalité d'un pays, mais à influencer le peuple par la manipulation, le mensonge ou l'omission, empêchent les dissidents d' avoir une visibilité, mettent en avant les collabos, donnent une image favorable des tenants du pouvoir. Etc, etc, etc.
-Voilà Docteur comment je vois les choses. Cette terrible impression de vivre dans un État totalitaire complètement figé et verrouillé de toutes parts n'est vraiment pas facile à vivre.
-Je vous comprend. On va vous donner quelque médicament, ça ira mieux, et si ça ne s'améliore pas, on vous fera une petite séance d'électrochoc, ça vous va?
-Oh, merci Docteur !
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As always, translation to follow...

Translation of the post below....Enjoy

2005-01-14T02:01:00.000-05:00

If the Americans don’t donate enough money, they are criticized and held to be Scrooges. If the Americans donate a lot of money, they are criticized and it is thought that they do so to appease their consicence or to get into the afflicted populations’ good graces. If Bush only thinks of the Americans, its ignominious. If Bush only thinks about the non-Americans, its intolerable. What I like about the greatness of the French’s humanist spirit (also known as Franchoullardise) is their consistency in interpreting the facts. Whatever the Americans do, they are wrong. The implication is that whatever the French think, they are right (Please note that it has been a long time since the French have lost any ability to DO, therefore, to BE they THINK…Thanks to Descartes) So, they whip out their criticism…unfortunately falling into childish simplicity. Because life is simple when it is reduced to clamoring dogmas learned in 10 seconds. Hurray for the nice French people, death to the mean Yanks… Furthermore, it is accessible to any demagogue whose only purpose is either to sell CDs or to get re-elected in the next election, or to attact viewers for his TV show or even to get people to read his brand new book (anti-American, which by this sole virtue is insightful and enriching). I damn therefore I am. Nice encounter between Descartes and Goebbels thus cementing the basis of the new French humanism

The light shines over France, sometimes....

2005-01-12T16:21:00.000-05:00

The following is a great overview of the current conventional wisdom in France. I picked up this comment in response to a news article posted on www.tf1.fr, France's main TV channel's website, by a reader who excercised his/her critical thinking muscle, so often atrophied in French society. An English translation is to follow soon....

Si les américains ne donnent pas assez d'argent, on les critique en les taxant de pingrerie. Si les américains donnent beaucoup d'argent, on les critique en supposant qu'ils font ça pour se donner bonne conscience ou pour s'attirer les faveurs des populations fragilisées. Si Bush ne pense qu'aux américains, c'est ignoble. S'il pense aux non-américains, c'est intolérable. Ce que j'aime dans la grandeur de l'esprit humaniste français (appelé également franchouillardise) c'est la constance dans l'interprétation des faits. Quoique les américains fassent, ils ont tort. Le corollaire, c'est que quoique les français pensent, ils ont raison ( à noter que ça fait longtemps que les français ont perdu toute capacité à faire, alors pour être, ils pensent ... merci Descartes ) Donc ils dégainent leurs critiques ... en tombant malheureusement dans une facilité quasi enfantine. Car la vie est simple quand elle se réduit à déclamer une idéologie apprise en 10 secondes. Vive les gentils français, à morts les méchants ricains ... Et en plus c'est à la portée de n'importe quel démagogue qui a pour but, soit de vendre des disques, soit de se faire élire aux prochaines élections, soit d'attirer les téléspectateurs pour sa prochaine émission, soit de faire lire son tout nouveau livre ( anti-américain, qui par conséquent ne peut être que bon et instructif). Je médis donc je suis. Belle rencontre entre Descartes et Goebels posant les bases du nouvel humanisme Français.
Lolo, Saint-cloud

In the beginning there was light....

2005-01-08T02:06:00.000-05:00

To all those out there in cyberspace in search of a little enlightenment and critical thought, welcome to this space. Expect stimulating discussions and accurate facts from this blog which will grow as time permits...