WTF? Vote for me or they’ll hurt you?
France risks violence and brutality if conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy wins tomorrow’s presidential election, his Socialist opponent, Ségolène Royal, said yesterday.
On the last day of official campaigning, opinion polls indicated that Sarkozy was enjoying a commanding lead over Royal, who accused the former interior minister of lying and polarizing France.
“Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy would be a dangerous choice,” Royal told RTL radio.
“It is my responsibility today to alert people to the risk of [his] candidature with regards to the violence and brutality that would be unleashed in the country,” she said.
Pressed on whether there would actually be violence, Royal said: “I think so. I think so.” She said Sarkozy’s social policies as interior minister had increased tensions in the country, referring specifically to France’s volatile suburbs hit by widespread rioting in 2005.
Typical lefty tactic. Staple of the civil rights movement: deal with MLK or with the Black Panthers / Nation of Islam. Let the union in or your business burns. Pay Jesse the shakedown money… “Nice little country you got here…. Shame if something happens to it.”
I think the watershed question for the candidates is this: “If police pursue two criminal suspects who are killed whe they attempt to hide in a high-voltage substation, will your government prosecute them (the police officers)?”
With one answer lies civilization, with the other, barbarism.
On the other hand, she’s most likely right.
If the left in the US had as keen an understanding of the trigger points of civil unrest and violence, you can bet they would be as equally invested as Royal’s Socialists in framing policy battles to maximize the pressure on those trigger points. Baby steps, so far:
When your party’s ideas have been proven bankrupt. When your party’s policies have been shown to be failures. When you lost in a head to head 2-1/2 hour debate. When the entire country is plagued with violence and the police fear going into certain neighborhoods unless in force. When the French themselves seem willing to give up a little of their social welfare contract in return for security. Hell, you might as well try to scare folks. They’re already scared and besides, what else do you have left?
After the election, I can just see the left calling the majority of Frenchmen stupid, etc. Wait for the book, “What’s the matter with Aquitaine.” Anyone got Thomas Frank’s phone number?
We can live peacefully with that alligator, can’t we?
Just keep lobbing chicken parts at it, Pablo, and I’m certain you’ll stay at the bottom of its menu.
TW: Western33 suicide
Heh.
Personally, I blame Alsace. Or Poitou – can’t trust them.
Personally, I think it’s Bordeaux. All those grape fumes, you know.
I think the problem is in Ile de France.
The Simpson trial comes to mind. I managed to avoid seeing or hearing even one minute of testimony – but I couldn’t miss the strongly implied “LA will burn if the verdict comes out wrong.”
So she wants to increase Sarkozy’s vote totals? Fine by me. I guess the French are best under a foreigner – Napoleon Bonaparte would have had an answer for those ‘youths of unkown appearance’ and it would not have been surrender.
paid14? Oh yeah, L’Empereur would have put paid to them.
I am so looking forward to these election results.
But I am a traditionalist when it comes to millenialism, of course.
I wondered when she’d turn to this:
Ah, then she’s a typical Lefty, a sister to her counterparts here in the States. When you got nothing, when you can’t use logic to further your argument, when a majority of your fellow countrymen have seen through the absolute lunacy of your State-based “solutions”, you can always revert to using the boogeyman of George Bush. Shroeder did it in Germany, it forms the basis of every loud-mouth coming out of Hollywood and the Democrats did it in their first debate. Sometimes it even works…for awhile.
Hey, it worked for the kheffiyeh-wearing dork in Spain; why shouldn’t Sego give it a try?
Here’s a piece that was published a couple days before Royal’s comments, and suggests that violence attendant to a Sarkozy victory is widely “feared” among the left there…
Hey, sometimes ya gotta just lance that boil…
Cross Postfrom Bloody Scott, on the same topic.
Compare and Contrast…
In al-graun, Martin Jacques indulges his predictable anti-Americanism, while making clear his unsurprising preference for French Presidential candidate and socialist dingbat, Royal, over her “racist” opponent, Sarkozy.
Meanwhile, in a small Suffolk town, residents continue to participate in a series of events (called America 400) that commemorates the town’s connections with the foundation of Jamestown (1607) and Martha’s Vineyard.
Verily, verily, I say unto you that metropolitan lefties are quite unrepresentative of the British population as a whole.
posted by paul ilc @ 10:41 AM 3 comments
Has France forgiven them for being marauding arsonists? How dare Sarkozy call them what they are!?!
So. Shortly after experiencing its worst social unrest in decades, which starkly divided her people, France opted for an experienced insider and eschewed a fresh new face.
The audacity of nope.
So she lost.
And another Socialist goes down in flames according to the BBC.
Wonder where the Democratic Party will look to now for inspiration since France just lurched firmly to the Right?