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To: JDN who wrote (564776)	4/15/2004 5:14:37 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I think many people who have the time are not going to like what they see when they find out why the haughty and pretentious John Kerry is fond of quoting Andre Gide, an obscure, self-styled, self-loathing, French homosexual moralist who never quite forgave himself for the way he was used repeatedly like a cheap disease-free whore by Communists during the early days of the Revolution. Kerry's favorite Andre Gide quote? "Don't try to understand me too quickly."<puke here> johnkerry.com Gallic cousins insist John Kerry isn't too French By JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press Last Updated 11:22 a.m. PST Monday, March 29, 2004 SAINT-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France (AP) - John Kerry's relatives in France bristle at jabs from across the Atlantic that the presidential contender has a French connection. They say Kerry has no link to France other than the home his grandparents bought here. "John Kerry is incredibly American," says Brice Lalonde, Kerry's cousin and mayor of this seaside Brittany village. "He has absolutely nothing French about him." For another cousin, Christopher Curtis: "This is an American story. John is an all-American guy with the benefit of having spent some time overseas." With the race for the White House turning nasty - and France-U.S. ties not quite mended from the Iraq war - Kerry's Gallic clan, when questioned, talks up his American-ness. Some are keeping a low profile, saying too much talk about France could be political arsenic. As Lalonde puts it: "I'm afraid to hurt him." sacbee.com Why is France so afraid of religion? by Harun Yahya Monday 01 March 2004 .....We must not interpret what happened in France only as a ban on religious symbols; the French fear of religion and religous morality goes back a long time. Those who are aware of the development of social culture and church-state relations in France will know that these kinds of initiatives and the resulting controversies are well known in French society. Moreover, this fear is not limited only to Islam and Judaism; the memory of the murder of Catholics during the French Revolution has not yet been erased. The present shape of church-state relations in France was forged by conflict, hatred, anger and slaughter. This struggle began in the eighteenth century against the Catholic Church with the purpose of diminishing the influence of the Church on society. We can say that during this period, society became distanced from spiritual and religious values and came under the influence of materialist philosophy...... usa.mediamonitors.net THE WACKY WORLD OF FRENCH INTELLECTUALS By Laurent Murawiec meforum.org \| April 15, 2004 Fallen Empire Fallen empires are jealous and vindictive, and from the bottom of their smallness, they resent their successors. As far as the Arab world is concerned, some in France still have what may be called "Sykes-Picot envy," and wish that France's Mediterranean and Middle Eastern turf had remained virgo intacta, free for France to lord over. This envy sometimes reaches a fever pitch. Biarnès's analysis leads him to an extraordinary rhetorical crescendo: The world today is made out of "so many nations, great and small, which are increasingly tempted to adopt, admittedly with some rhetorical excess, the famous words of Cato the Elder: 'Delenda est America!'" ("America must be destroyed!").35 In like spirit, Richard Labévière asserts in the conclusion to his book that The intoxication of the dollar — In God We Trust — sweeps everything before it: borders, institutions, cultures, states, and nations. The future belongs to McDonald's and armed prophets.36 The reference to McDonald's is not fortuitous, for a number of (French-owned) McDonald's restaurants were trashed in 1999 by mobs of angry farmers. The arrest of one of their leaders provided an opportunity for a loose alliance of farmers, left-wing unionists, populist politicians, communists, Greens, neo-Gaullists (like Charles Pasqua), and the Catholic ultra-right (Philippe de Villiers) to unite in their rejection of "the American diktat," a phrase often used by the leading fascist politician of France, Jean-Marie Le Pen. The United States has become the metaphor for everything that is wrong, dangerous and threatening. France stands against Walt Disney cartoons, hamburgers, and, as Gallois once told this author in private conversation, the "Negrified culture" of rock and pop...... frontpagemag.com Negrified culture, eh? LOL.