I’m disappointed that there has not yet been one comment to make a distinction between the French people and the governing bureaucracy and other elites in France. There is a signicant difference

It should also be noted that France HAS been “a country of immigrants”: there are many people who came from eastern and southern Europe all through the last century; look at the names of many Frenchmen–they’re not French, including the ‘Gaullist’ ( populist/nationalist/conservative ) candidate for President.

The problem for France is that for the past three decades, most of that continuing immigration has been from Muslim countries, esp the former French colonies in Africa. The law was changed in 1973 to allow entire families to live in France on a permanent basis, and the entire structure of immigration was altered by revising statues in the 1970s

BTW, France finally re-wrote the ‘Napoleanic Code’ a few years ago, with several significant changes. You are no longer presumed guilty in French courts with the full burden of proving innocence. Now in the New Enlightenment That is France, you are sort of non-guilty’ or ‘of neutral status’–and while you still must make an ‘affirmative case’ to demonstrate that you are not guilty, the State has an equal or greater responsibility to actually prove that you are guilty.

Still, no juries or habeas corpus. Those are English ideas, and hardly exist outside the historical Anglo-sphere

…..and yes, as it will never be 1958 again, the French probably are “toast”. But think about it, okay? Is this a good thing? What do you Francophobes want? A nation of 60 million people with nuclear weapons to be taken over by Islamo-fascists?

Way, way too much schadenfreude here

Janos Hunyadi on January 16, 2007 at 2:33 AM

testing…..

Janos Hunyadi on January 16, 2007 at 1:22 PM

my previous message was also Lost In Space

I question the timing, and the IQ of the Persons Unknown who operate this blog, as I did not say any Bad Words at all

Anyway, Rick of Casablanca, the Frogs don’t blame us for their problems: they’re not yet that far gone. Their elites have regarded the Middle East as their turf for nearly a century, and resent us doing anything there which displaces them

They get most of their power from domestic nuclear plant facilities, and so unlike the rest of Europe are not dependant on Arab or Iranian oil, but they have based too much of their economy on selling Other Sh+t to Moose-lims, and since the early Seventies have played a short-sighted game in that region.

Janos Hunyadi on January 16, 2007 at 3:12 PM