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ac who has just rushed to the military hospital in clamart to be at yasser arafat s bedside took time off to pen a letter to his american colleague my translation handwritten bits in bold mister president dear george in the name of france and in my personal name i wish to express to you my most hearty congratulations for your re election to the presidency of the united states of america i make the wish that your second mandate will be the opportunity to reinforce franco american friendship the ceremonies for the sixtieth anniversary of the landings paid a shining hommage to the american soldiers who fell on the normandy beaches for our freedom and that of europe it is in the spirit of dialogue esteem and mutual respect that our co operation our common combat against terrorism and the action that we carry out together to promote liberty and democracy must continue we cannot find satisfactory answers to the numerous challenges against which we are confronted today without a close transatlantic partnership the united states and france are called upon to play in this an essential role we share the ambition of assuring to the greatest number peace security and prosperity in the spirit of solidarity this usually means entitlement programs in french i am convinced that together we can get there i beg you to believe mister president of the assurance of my very high opinion of you and of my very cordial friendship jacques chirac i bet that was painless oh and i hope that the president chirac is careful in his motorcade coming home from clamart that s right next to the road junction where the oas tried to assassinate general de gaulle as seen in the day of the jackal in 1962 and we would not want anything to happen to fidel castro saddam hussein and yasser arafat s favourite frenchman november 4th 2004 20 comments comments are closed the non campaign so far gustave la joie londres european union there is a stirring of campaign groups to oppose the eu constitution ratification in france my latest posting on combat links to the acceptable opposition groups to these we could add the far right who will no doubt be excluded from the official no campaign our biggest problem at the moment is the total lack of a mainstream anti eu press this is not that different from the maastricht campaign of 1992 and at least the internet is reducing the organisational advantage to the political establishment we may also have funding problems though this is not the concern right now at the moment the main job is trying to establish who can vote and where the big questions concern foreigners can they vote can they donate funds to the campaigns i shall keep posting the good news today is a rumour of dissent in the french socialist party the leadership has committed the party to voting yes wheras many members would have liked to wait until the text was actually available in september before deciding july 21st 2004 3 comments comments are closed aux urnes citoyens gustave la joie londres european union french affairs unless he was lying on national television again or changes his mind like he did several times over the maastricht treaty saddam hussein s best chum has announced that the french and colonies will be given a chance to vote on the proposed european union constitution lucky we know all the dirty tricks that can be used in such a referendum campaign they were all used last time by the florentine françois mitterand to get the maastricht treaty through so we shall be campaigning in guadeloupe and martinique and the isle de la réunion and french polynesia st pierre et miquelon and new caledonia and wallis et futuna if necessary to avoid losing by 40 000 votes get the atlas out i am starting a voter registration guide among the french refugees living in london i am also checking whether foreign eu citizens living in france can vote and how to arrange this my new blog combat named after the wwii resistance magazine against the nazi occupation launched today will be tracking the campaign in french instead of the national anthem s aux armes citoyens let us aux urnes citoyens to the ballot boxes citizens july 15th 2004 5 comments comments are closed a chess match begins gustave la joie londres european union french affairs in france on sunday nicolas sarkhozy has manouvered the ump government party into supporting a referendum for the proposed eu constitution link in french the decision to hold a referendum will be taken by president jacques chirac anyone s guess what that will be but the call by the newly appointed minister of finance represents a shift away from automatic rubber stamping by the french parliament privately chirac will be fuming he hates sarkhozy and fears his possible election in 2007 as president unlike the recently convicted fraudster alain juppé mr sarkhozy might not feel inclined to whitewash the current president s dubious financial history meanwhile alain juppé the ump party chairman has endorsed mr sarkhozy s call with the qualification within the constitutional prerogatives of the president mr juppé no doubt feels it is a good time to roll with his colleague s punches may 10th 2004 6 comments comments are closed chirac the travelling salesman for enlargement gustave la joie londres european union french affairs a mindboggling article on the tf1 french tv website apparently jacqeues chirac is dedicating today s presidential press conference to the subject of eu enlargement the analysis is that this will dillute french influence in the eu shift the balance of power in a more atlanticist direction and help bring about back door free market reforms the french socialist party has decided to make the threat of a libertarian europe europe libérale the main plank of its european election campaign citing the eu constitution as part of the potential problem they think it is going to be amended into something terrifying i e good especially horrible for the european left is the prospect of cross border private welfare arrangements buying private pensions and health insurance without the protection of nationalized welfare monopolies get your life insurance in france health insurance in germany and your pension in the uk for example jacques chirac as the agent of anglo saxon capitalists priceless april 29th 2004 13 comments comments are closed let s not be beastly to the moslems gustave la joie londres humour don t let s be beastly to the germans but don t let s be beastly to the hun noel coward former celebrity brain tumour sufferer and labour politician dr mo mowlem reportedly believes that we need to negotiate with bin laden along the lines of terrorism appeasement in northern ireland i agree in the spirit of reconciliation i propose the following gestures of good faith remove all british forces from the middle east and afghanistan break off diplomatic relations with all non islamic countries ban women from holding any educational qualifications past primary school ban women from holding any jobs other than primary school teacher nurse or doctor in women only clinics especially remove all women from political office ban all jews from holding political office working in the public sector the media and the legal profession prohibit the sale or consumption of alcohol between 3pm on fridays and noon on saturday release all moslem terrorist suspects order the archbishop of canterbury to publicly abjure christianity editor s note is this not already the case and exhalt the supremacy of islam convert the established churches of england scotland and ireland to islam prohibit all religious education in schools except islam order the abdication of her majesty the queen in favour of a male relative her husband perhaps obviously we should hold back on some islamist demands until we have some reciprocal agreements from mr bin laden for instance no mass public executions of homosexuals and female adulterers no public flogging of drug or alcohol addicts no enforcement of the veil for non moslem women no declaration of war on israel and the usa no handing over of british nuclear biological and chemical weapons technology to al qaeda after all we must have something to bargain with just an after thought am i confused or did negotiating with the ira lead to a split with even more violent factions launching even more deadly bomb attacks april 12th 2004 35 comments comments are closed je suis islamiste gustave la joie londres humour middle east islamic the jews are behind materialism animal sexuality the destruction of the family and the dissolution of society principal among them are marx freud durkheim and the jew jean paul sartre sayid qutb former leader muslim brotherhood quoted by barbara amiel well i disagree with the conclusion but i must admit that the pantheon of evil is pretty exhaustive marx the inspiration for all the best serial killers freud the apologist for all the best serial killers durkheim serial killer of brain cells sartre creep hmm april 5th 2004 29 comments comments are closed corruption scandal which corruption scandal gustave la joie londres french affairs brian reminds us that if dr kelly s death was embarrassing for the bbc and the british government the capture alive of saddam hussein is potentially very embarrssing for the french president jacques the crook chirac following his story i decided to check out tf1 the major tv channel to see what coverage if any there was about the bagdad story it certainly is not front page news in paris for good reason one of the leading stories in france today is the report of an investigative judge into the sale of frigates by what was then thomson csf to taiwan in 1991 under the ethical trade clauses in this 14 billion french franc contract about 1 9 billion us dollars if it were proved that bribes had been paid the guilty party would have to pay damages of up to 600 million us dollars the government at the time was the socialist party and the prime minister would probably have been pierre bérégovoy who committed suicide by firing an indeterminate number of bullets into the wrong side of his head shortly before being called to appear in court on charges of channelling public funds into the bank accounts of most of his socialist buddies or arch crook edith cresson she of the dentist gigolo hired at the european commission who called english mps a bunch of public school homosexuals i forget which naturally the damages will all be paid by the french government i e the taxpayers the notion that the political party or the politician that stole the money should be held somehow responsible where would it end corruption scandal which corruption scandal january 28th 2004 9 comments comments are closed no longer marx et coca cola gustave la joie londres children s issues sitting here in london i am horrified at the decision by coca cola to remove its brand logo from drinks dispensers which sell coca cola in english schools afraid of being branded exploitative it must therefore be all right according to les bien pensants to prohibit freedom of commercial expression in england and wales but it is not all right to keep religious bigotry and bullying out of school in france let us be clear if wearing a scarf were no more than a style preference or an expression of belief it could only be objected to on grounds of taste which is something that bureaucrats and politicians collectively are not known for having however the scarf is too often the product of beatings threatened rape and patriarchal oppression with state schools juggling the demands of children s rights versus political correctness if coca cola were truly capable of using the illuminated front of a drinks dispenser to brainwash children into switching from pepsi vodka and crack cocaine then there could be a case for the school s prohibition of the display it is rather strange to assume that children would naturally rather drink soy milk i would find it odd to go to a school where girls were beaten by islamic bullies with impunity for not wearing modest clothing and where children were harangued by teachers about the evils of coca cola the next time that i hear french imams condemn the use of compulsion against girls who dress according to western norms i shall withdraw my support for the headscarf ban in the meantime in protest against spineless coca cola i shall make a point of ordering pepsi january 26th 2004 9 comments comments are closed ban the scarf gustave la joie londres french affairs middle east islamic french state schools unlike the british or american varieties were founded explicitly to oppose clerical power they are the most visible and enduring bastions of secularism in france originally the prohibition of religious symbols in schools was aimed against catholics many of the supporters of secularism in the 19th century in france were non conformist or atheist often protestant or jewish the antisemistism of such groups as action française from the 1890s onwards is in turn a reaction against the french radical assault on catholic society in the early 20th century a deal was worked out that allowed religious schools to operate alongside the secular system the islamist campaign against secularism is what the headscarf law is about in some schools violence has been threatened against girls who refused to wear scarves apologists for fundamentalists ususally socialists hoping to play the race card condoned the violence and have allowed a climate of terror in french schools as a libertarian i oppose state schools but also as a libertarian i also support the prohibition of islamic fundamentalist intimidation if islamic schools really allowed freedom to exit i could back moslem campaigns for lifting any restrictions the french government might have against their own schools when i visit a mosque i take off my shoes i do not interfere with the religious devotions of the worshippers and i do not demonstrate my own devotions to eating pork and drinking beer the person who chooses a turban ahead of an education has got i m a loser stamped all over him but the people who organise the headscarf campaigns do not want freedom of choice they want a licence to coerce this is not a campaign for religious freedom moslems are free to set up their own schools it is a campaign to separate the public and the private sphere in the school each pupil s religious affiliation is a private and not a public matter far be it from me to condone the criminal régime of chirac but this is the same fight as the turkish army s fight to defend a secular state against the fundmentalist tyranny it is a small corner of the war on terror and compared with the some of the antics of the department of homeland defense a k a minipax one worth fighting it is also a campaign against obscurantism french people often mock those parts of the usa where it is illegal to teach darwin or where creationist theories have to be accorded equal credibilty in the classroom january 19th 2...