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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (25432)	4/24/2007 10:23:50 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 80977

Crimson > I do not see the French populace allowing Sarko to do to France what Bush did to the US even if he does win. Events will overtake him in the same way they did Dubya. Consider a "terrorist" attack which brings down the Eiffel Tower. After that, the French will be compliant in the same way the Americans were after 9/11 -- and Sharky will do what he has to. guardian.co.uk >>Creating a terrifying threat - hydra-like, secretive, evil - is an old trick. It can, like Hitler's invocation of a communist threat to the nation's security, be based on actual events (one Wisconsin academic has faced calls for his dismissal because he noted, among other things, that the alleged communist arson, the Reichstag fire of February 1933, was swiftly followed in Nazi Germany by passage of the Enabling Act, which replaced constitutional law with an open-ended state of emergency). Or the terrifying threat can be based, like the National Socialist evocation of the "global conspiracy of world Jewry", on myth.<< Of course, I don't say this will happen, only that it could.