Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pcp04582604pcs.tallah01.fl.comcast.NET!not-for-mail From: "Kevin Gowen" Newsgroups: soc.culture.french,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.british,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: What does everyone have against French society? Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:21:55 -0400 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <52210046.0307252157.54a853f8@posting.google.com> <3f24067e$0$9629$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: pcp04582604pcs.tallah01.fl.comcast.net (68.46.228.78) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1059333761 20556368 68.46.228.78 (16 [105084]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:3449 Patrick EMIN wrote: > There is a difference though between the way french can be cynical > and the way the US government is. Thanks to a long tradition of human > right respect in France dating back to the "Si鐵le des Lumi鑽es", I am pretty sure Maximilien Robespierre was around during the siecle des lumieres. How can I say "La Terreur" in English? > we > almost never > pulverise someone before asking him whether he is innocent or culprit > like the US and its israeli accomplice are routinely doing. Indeed. Just ask some French Jews. -- Kevin Gowen "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." - Columbia University professor Eric Foner in the London Review of Books, on the attacks of 11 September 2001. A new study has recently suggested that the inferno that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed thousands of innocents was indeed more frightening than the rhetoric of the Bush administration.