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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France?

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (65)2/16/2003 11:33:53 AM
From: Jerry Olson  Read Replies (1) of 662
 
Hey GZ...got this yesterday

In a message dated 2/15/2003 5:02:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, mwaitzman@infovia.com.ar writes:

> >
> > Liberty, equality, fraternity! Does the French nation recall that
> > slogan?
> >
> > The current French tolerance of and indifference to the wave of attacks
> > upon
> > French Jews speaks cle arly of the decline of the French national
> > character.
> >
> > The French have forgotten! Two hundred and some odd years ago the
> > suffering French populace erupted in revolution against tyranny.
> > They cried for and fought for liberty, fraternity, equality for all in
> > every aspect of French society.
> >
> > The French have forgotten! But I remember! I still have in my mind
> > the heartbreaking image of the Parisian gentleman from whose eyes
> > the tears fell copiously as he watched the Nazi troops marching
> > riumphantly into Paris. -The face of that Frenchman still lives
> > in my mind sixty years later.
> > It is the same as the faces of so many French Jews today.
> >
> > The French have forgotten! But I remember! I remember the ecstasy,
> > the flowers, the kisses with which the French people greeted their
> > American and British liberators from Nazi terror.
> >
> > The French have forgotten! - They have forgotten the dehumanizing
> > result of terror upon themselves. - They have forgotten the shame of
> > Vichy France. - Those who watch with indifference the attacks upon
> > their neighbors sink into degeneracy themselves.
> >
> > The French have forgotten brotherhood and love of others than
> > themselves.
> > - They have forgotten equal justice. - They have forgotten that a nation
> >
> > without strength of morality and character is a nation already in the
> > lower
> > depths of degradation.
> >
> > So, just as the Swiss were part of the Nazi problem sixty years ago, the
> >
> > French are part of the problem of world terrorism today. -
> > As the French casually watch their Jewish citizens attacked let
> > them remember how they, the French, acquiesced in cowardice at t he
> > rape of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis in 1938, only to suffer under the
> > Nazi heel so soon after.
> >
> > My contempt for present day France is accompanied by great regret.
> > We gave the lives of American boys to save them once.
> > - They have forgotten.
> > However, we Americans have not forgotten.
> > - All Americans with integrity of character must boycott France.
> >
> >
> > I hope large numbers of you will join me in this.
> >
> > If this e-mail is forwarded by just 1/2 of all recipients it could
> > reach 10,000,000 Americans in a matter of days.
> >
> > Let's make the French remember!
> >
> > Joe Lieberman
>
>

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