France on the Edge of the Abyss?

[joequinn]

The vote analysis is starting to come out, and it does not surprise me in the least. One of the reasons why Sarkozy won so big was because the French working-class --- famous in history for being far more aware of its class identity than any other working-class in the West --- flocked to support him. "Mr. Sarkozy collected 49 per cent among lower-level employees and 46 per cent of votes among blue-collar workers."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... ional/home

You know, folks, there is a reason why the working class is the working class, and that's because it has slit its own throat whenever it has been able to get its hands on a knife. In the quarter century before World War I (1880-1914) enormous efforts were made to try to raise the consciousness of the European workers, and in 1914 the German Socialist Party was one of the strongest political parties in Europe, with the French Socialist Party not far behind and the English ruling class flipping out over the creation of the British Labour Party (later to be betrayed by that traitor Tony Blair). And yet, just as soon as the ****ing capitalist pigs blew the whistle, the proles on both sides were ready, willing and able to hack each other to pieces --- while the ****ing capitalist pigs sat back smoking their Havana cigars and laughing their asses off!

In America the dumb morons turned Congress against Woodrow Wilson even before World War I ended and supported the efforts to keep Amerika out of the League of Nations, thereby gauranteeing that there would be World War II. In 1920 the morons voted for Harding and Coolidge, and they lived like fools during the Roaring Twenties! Let me tell you, the people who lived prudently in the 1920s did not end up selling apples on the street corners in the 1930s!

The shameful role that the working class played in the rise of Hitler is well documented: the Nazi Party was solidly rooted in the German working class. Ditto for Amerika as well in the 1930s. The proles died a second time in World War II, while the ****ing capitalist pigs smoked some more Havana cigars and laughed even louder.

In 1946 the totally screwed-up Amerikan working class voted the Republicans into power in Congress and paved the way for the rise of Joe McCarthy, whom the working class just loved. The working class went for Nixon, then Reagan, and now Dubya. Need I say more...

And now the French working-class went for Sarkozy. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? Dumb morons! In the smallness of their souls they are so anxious to "git" the welfare queen with the 18 pink Cadillacs (actually a Chicago woman who used a phony social security card to bilk the system of eight thousand dollars!) that they are willing to give corporate criminals five hundred million dollar bonuses! (Yeah, you read that right!) Dumb morons! Dumb morons! Dumb, spiteful, mouse-brained morons!

[mudwoman]

Sarko Wins One for the Global Elite

Kurt Nimmo | May 07, 2007

Now that Nicolas Sarkozy has won the French election and appears to be the favorite of the French people—who are apparently as easily brainwashed as Americans, but of course with typical if oft satirized arrogant French élan—we can expect the idea of a supranational Europe, previously rejected by the people of France, to take center stage.

“One thing that both candidates recognize is that Europe needs to be united to be influential on the world stage. The French referendum on the EU constitution produced a shocking ‘no' in a nation that has always supported EU integration,” opines Germany's Deutsche Welle. “It is a top priority to get the European bicycle rolling again, according to Pierre Lellouche, Sarkozy's foreign policy advisor…. The differences between the candidates is more one of approach rather than substance, with Sarkozy being the better strategist.” According to Lellouche, even the top dog socialists in France “admit they'll vote for Sarkozy,” as their primary focus is globalization. Ségolène Royal's big mistake, obviously, was her election campaign promise to seek a referendum on selling France and Europe out to the one-worlders.

In 2005, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso described the French rejection as “a very serious problem,” while insisting it was premature to say “the treaty is dead.” Indeed, Sarko in France, in league with Merkel in Germany and the European Commission, will keep pushing until the globalist “super state” is firmly and irrevocably in place.

In hindsight, it was really quite stupid to allow the French and Dutch people to vote on the dismantlement of their national sovereignty. In North America, slipping in world government by stealth is all the craze, mostly notably with the hush-hush creation of the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” in 2005, a much less burdensome process than the European experience, as the people are methodically excluded.

In fact, to this day, if you make noise about this exclusionary, indeed totalitarian process of world government by drib and drab under cover of stealth, you're considered a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nut, never mind the very real existence of the so-called NAFTA highway currently under construction in Texas and a flurry of “white papers” and “recommendations” on creating under the cover of darkness a “North America Community” issued by the likes of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America, the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales, and other conspirators lurking in the shadows.

Sarkozy's immediate task will be to make sure there are no more silly mistakes and one world globalization remains unflinchingly on track. “The European Commission believes that rightist Sarkozy offers a better plan for the revival of the European Constitution, which would be placed for voting in the Parliament, while Segolene Royal wants to update the constitutional accord and hold another referendum which causes a risk that the constitution will not pass the referendum voting,” Javno explains. “Critics of Segolene Royal consider she did not manage to adequately present her program and that she is not feisty enough to become the future president of France, while on the other hand Sarkozy has showed more edge and feistiness, and his program was more substantial.”

In other words, Sarko was more effective than Royal at insisting France be rolled into the EU—never mind the opposition of a few million French citizens—and that's why he was selected to “win” by the transnational business elite, the international bankers, the kings and queens and princes, and all their bought or compromised chancellors, prime ministers, ambassadors, secretaries of state, ad nauseam.

It certainly helps, as well, that enough people in France were bamboozled—as the Americans were bamboozled twice running—to put a dull shine of legitimacy on this phase of what will soon enough become one world tyranny and global slavery.

http://infowars.com/articles/world/fran ... _elite.htm

[joequinn]

Mudwoman, I cannot believe that the French voted for Sarkozy out of stupidity, as the Brits voted for Thatcher in 1979 and as the Yanks voted for Reagan in 1980. No, the French voted for Sarkozy out of despair, the cold realization that it's the end of the world as we know it, so they might as well feel fine, even if only for a couple of years.

I really believe that, Mudwoman: the French elected Sarkozy out of despair. I really do...

[joequinn]

The violence on the night of Sunday, 6 May 2007, was far greater than was originally reported:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/07/news/protest.php

The French may have given up hope for the future, but they are not stupid. They know what Sarkozy's arrival on the scene means...

[mudwoman]

Mudwoman, I cannot believe that the French voted for Sarkozy out of stupidity, as the Brits voted for Thatcher in 1979 and as the Yanks voted for Reagan in 1980. No, the French voted for Sarkozy out of despair, the cold realization that it's the end of the world as we know it, so they might as well feel fine, even if only for a couple of years.

I really believe that, Mudwoman: the French elected Sarkozy out of despair. I really do...

Whether the reason is stupidity (as in the dumbing down of the electorate, facilitating the rise of Reagan and Thatcher), fear (the threat of terrorism - the Reichstag fire, 9/11, or 7/7 giving the world Hitler, Bush and Blair), or desperation (as in the case with Sarkozy) it doesn't really matter. Stupidity, fear and despair are all tools of the elite adapted to different times, different circumstances, and in different cultural settings to manipulate the masses to carry out their evil plans.

Oh yes, in the end, the people get it in the... errr... end.

[OMG]

OMG, my dark and devious thoughts exactly! There is an 800-pound gorilla in the room of whose existence we have not been informed. Whatever could it be?

Yeah, I don't always fall in line for every global conspiracy but that pattern just seems so odd to me.

Royal sure got her first outlook prediction correctly about there being riots on the street if Sarkozy. Royal = Joan of Arc, Sarkozy = Napoleon. A slight majority of 52% believes in following Napoleon.

This french election reminded me a lot of the 2004 US election. With Sarkozy using a lot of tough talk and fear tactics.

[joequinn]

It's started already. Sarkozy bleated throughout the campaign that he was concerned about the French poor who could not get jobs and he was repeatedly nailed for his close association with the French media barons. So what does he do the moment that he is elected? He flies to Malta for a vacation on a media baron's jet and vacations on a boat that would cost $270,000 a week to rent.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

Here's the test. If there is a massive outrage over this event, then you know that the French in 2007 were as dumb as the Brits in 1979 and the Yanks in 1980. But there is no massive outrage over this event, then you know that the French voted for Sarkozy, not out of gullibility, but out of despair. "Let Sazkovy sail on his yacht as long as I can get my couple of sous" --- the sign of despair!

J. F. K. used to repeat a saying of Rousseau: "The moment that a man says to me, 'What concern to me is the business of the state?' --- then I know that the state is lost." This may be precisely what is happening to France right now.

And the Parisian suburbs are being ominously silent about this election. Very silent...

[spaceprophet]

I wonder how long it will take Sarko and the new French government to privatize the health care system, jack up the prices on medicine sky-high, and make it to where only the rich can afford health care ala the wonderful American system of health care?

I give him four years.

The corporate fat cats are going to get big with child when the money starts rolling in.

[joequinn]

A superbly written article whose title tells the whole story --- "NIcolas Sarkozy: A Mandate for Class Warfare":

http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=5565

And note the statistics cited in the article. They are truly shocking!

It seems quite clear to me that the French bourgeoisie voted for Sarkozy out of fear (to lose even a little of what they have) and greed (to gain a lot more). They will end up with nothing --- as the article makes quite clear!

[Shimmering Auro]

Paris students stage strike against Sarkozy
Wed May 9, 2007 2:53PM EDT


PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of students at Paris university went on strike on Wednesday to protest at the plans of president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy to reform France's higher education system.

Around 500 students voted to support the strike action and protesters immediately blocked access to the Tolbiac annexe of the Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne university.

"There were no courses and pickets have been set up after the vote," said a spokesperson for the student union.

Conservative leader Sarkozy was elected president on Sunday, promising economic and social reforms that have alarmed many trade unionists.

The higher education minister, Francois Goulard, called on the head of the Paris I site to make sure university courses continued and to guarantee access to the Tolbiac buildings.

"It is totally unacceptable that an extremist minority, showing their scorn for democracy, should try to oppose the enactment of the president of the republic's program," Goulard said in a statement.

Sarkozy has promised to make higher education reform a priority and wants to introduce a law before the end of the summer to give universities more autonomy, handing them power to hire and fire staff, set salaries and manage their assets.

He has said universities should focus more on vocational courses, be encouraged to seek outside financing and be given more scope to expel underperforming students.

France has some 80 universities, which are public, with professors and lecturers given the status of civil servants.

There is no selection process and the French media estimates that there are some 1.5 million students nationwide.

The country's brightest students are often drawn to a handful of so-called "grand ecoles", elite business, engineering and public administration schools that are very hard to get into and outside the broader university system.

[joequinn]

Public opposition to Sarkozy is slowly beginning to mount, although it remains to be seen whether French students, French workers and Muslim immigrants can come together to oppose him in a united front.

On Wednesday, 9 May 2007, hundreds of students at the University of Paris went on strike against the impending Sarkozy regime. Yes, the motivating force behind the strike is a generalized contempt for Sarkozy and all that he stands for, but there are more specific reasons for the opposition. Like Thatcher and Reagan before him, Sarkozy has targeted French higher education for “reform.” Sarkozy wants to have laws in place before September that would give the universities more autonomy, give them the power to hire and to fire staff, to set salaries and to manage their assets. Sarkozy wants the colleges in France to seek outside financing for their operations, to focus more on vocational courses, and to make it easier for the colleges to expel “disruptive” students. In short, to turn the highly respected French university system into just another for-profit corporation.

The students aren’t stupid: they know what Thatcher and Reagan did to the educational systems in their respective countries, and they don’t want the same thing to happen to France. (Indeed, The History Boys, now available on DVD, is a play/film that discusses at length the impact of the Thatcherite “reforms” on education in Great Britain in the early 1980s.) So the students have no reason to exercise restraint, and perhaps they would be much better off dying on their feet than living on their knees (and hands).

But these students had better not be naïve. They have more than Sarkozy to contend with --- behind him lies the 53% of the French electorate who supported him out of greed and/or despair. These people are every bit as much enemies to the students as Sarkozy himself is and they will support Sarkozy in his attempt to repress them. The students must never forget the magnitude of the opposition that they face now. But face it they must, and now is better than later.