Thanks to Christine for letting me know about this.
While the previous post is yet another example in the long history of French weaseldom, here is some good news out of France. Two Frenchmen are staging a counter-protest against the Islamofascist protesters in their midst:
"An eye for an eye! A tooth for a tooth!" Echoing protests around the world and wearing all kinds of costumes from the Middle East and the Muslim world, 4,000 Islamic demonstrators march through Paris denouncing the cartoons and the alleged (and convenient) lack of respect towards Islam.
When they arrive at La Nation, they are met with two figures wearing slightly different costumes and slightly different signs.
One, in red and white, is (silently) wearing a sign with the Danish flag saying "Support Denmark, Support free speech". Besides (silently) wearing a sign reading "Free Cartoonist" on it, the other, the founder of the BAF protest warrior-type organisation, is holding a (fake) severed hand, a pen among its fingers.
Voices start to ring out. "It's provocation!"
"You tread on 1.5 million Muslims!" "Connards!" "Rat faces!"
"Ignore them, they are idiots!" reply others as a crowd starts to press around. A rhetorical question rings out: "Would they be carrying out the same provocations in other types of demonstrations?!" (Actually, Monsieur, yes we would and yes we have.)
The Danish American feels like replying that they have done the same to Chirac, to Mitterrand, to the civil servant salons, and to union demonstrations, but suddenly he and the French American start moving away. What has happened is that a short blonde Frenchwoman has tugged on their sleeves and gently but firmly started pulling them away.
"I will show you my ID 10 meters from here" says the plainclothes cop. "They are going to lynch you!" she adds, as she leads us into another street (in the movie taken by our valiant camera team, you can briefly see her wearing a brown coat, right after a bearded guy in white cap and tan jacket says "They are provoking us" and the camera turns).
"Sons of adultery!" "Hey, you two sons of the whore!" Uniformed policemen join us and start rushing us, more and more quickly down the street (I don't want to run, I tell them), with a growing crowd quickening their steps. A police van's door opens. "Go! Go!" shouts a policeman to the driver, "Foncez!" as sirens wail and the van rushes ahead.
"Are you out of your minds?!" ask the two officers. "Do you know how many of them there were?!" "Somebody's got to stand up for free speech", replies the French protestor. After staying with us for 20-something minutes, they let us out. (As a departing farewell, I say, "You know, right before you came, we almost had them surrounded.")
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1 comment:
This particular incident is more important in the long run that the cartoon isuue we are now involoved in. Look at this as a long-term vision: people in France are terrified, and the police are barely able to keep the average citizen from being murdered in the streets by Muslim mobs. This is the turning point.
The cartoon issue is interesting and valuable but this demonstration of what it is to live in France today tells us all we need to know about the state of personal security in France. This is the one thing I've been waiting for. Look at this: Legitimate French authority as vested in the police, and therefore the government, is finished. A state that cannot protect its citizens and residents from mobs is not a legitimate state. When civil authority cannot protect the lives and security of its residents from unrestrained mob violence, then the reason for the being of government, the establishment and continuance of rational law and civil order, is null. When civil authority does not have or will not use force, when it no longer has the exclusive monopoly of legitmate force, then the state is not a state, and it's every man for himself, a lawlessness.
This is the end of the Republic. Now comes the overthrow and the new Republic. Today we see the end of the reprised ancien regime. What will take its place?
We are in this position in many nations in the West. We must take control of the nations from the Left dhimmi collaborators among us. If we don't, others will.
This incident won't destroy the architecture of the French state today, but this incident is the makings of a coup d'etat.
Who will fill the vacuum?
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