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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (65)	2/16/2003 11:33:53 AM
From: Jerry Olson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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 > > Dina