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To: goldsnow who wrote (16748)	7/5/2000 5:00:22 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

A Case of the Pot calling the Kettle Black: Tuesday July 4 8:27 AM ET French Prosecutor Starts Probe of U.S. Spy System PARIS (Reuters) - A French state prosecutor has launched a preliminary judicial investigation into the workings of the United States' Echelon spy system of satellites and listening posts, the prosecutor's office said Tuesday. Echelon, set up during the Cold War, can intercept millions of telephone, fax and e-mail messages, and Washington has been accused of using it for economic espionage against its allies, a charge it denies. The investigation, which could spark a diplomatic row with the United States, would not necessarily lead to legal action, a spokesman for prosecutor Jean-Pierre Dintilhac told reporters. [snip] dailynews.yahoo.com BTW, did you check the probe's timing? 4th July....<g> Let's speculate a little bit: when Boeing will disclose its super-jumbo 747 --to compete with Airbus A3XX-- all our local media'll likely finger the US company as a devious Echelon "subscriber".... Ah! I think I should forward Charleymane's Post-Fascist paper to some European politicos. Those European bourgeois are both pathetic and disgusting: they scramble to foster a genuine European identity --so far, so good-- but their "strategy" is two-fold. On the one hand, their European project is a positive and self-fulfilling one (Europe branded as the cradle of human rights, a prosperity/welfare haven, and a cultural Shangri-La....), but, on the other hand, the European project is offered as an anti-US ideal. This insidious anti-Americanism is troubling because it basically rests on a closet hostility to the US's cross-cultural nature. For that matter, there's currently a touchy political issue that got stirred up in France: just like in Belgium and other European countries, fellow European "immigrants" have more rights than non-European (North-Africans,...) immigrants. Just apply this sorry European state of affairs to the US: a Canadian citizen residing in Chicago since 1998 would be entitled to vote for the Senate, the mayor, the governor,.... while a Mexican shoeshiner sweating in Miami for the past 10 years would only have the right to buy a return ticket..... Accordingly, a couple of Socialist deputies noted that while Zinedine Zidane, 28, is praised as France's greatest sport champion, his Algerian parents have less political rights than any Swedish newcomer who just happened to settle in Marseilles a couple of months ago.... Gus.