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2003-08-25 Europe

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-25 11:21:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More likely related to drug or extortion business. The independentists are heavily mingled with the Corsican maffia in such kinds of deals (look at the crumbling of the Bastia stadium who caused over a hundred dead and may hundred wounded). BTW, when asked how Corsica would fund itself after the independency they answer "we would form a Union with Sardinia and Sicily". I am really sorry to dispel your romantic ideas about Corsica's "freedom fighters".

BTW the independentist get about 10% of the votes so Corsica is about as "occupied" as say, California or Texas.

Posted by JFM 2003-8-25 3:13:49 PM|| 2003-8-25 3:13:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Why does France maintain ownership of an offshore island of culterally seperate inhabitants? Are the French imperialist?

Posted by Steve D 2003-8-25 3:17:24 PM|| 2003-8-25 3:17:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 First: Because when Corsica was occupied by Italians the inhabitants shot at them

Second: Because the people who want secession are a _small_ minority.

Third: Because there are more Corsicans outside the island than it and they don't suffer any discrimination. There have been Corsicans ministers and, there was even one of them who became chief of state. :-) Can you say the same thing respective to your minorities?

Fourth: Try to forget about Chirak (a bastard), and what France has done under his misleadership.
Look at the situation dispassionately: why aren't you asking the same thing about Sicily, Sardinia, Baleares, Creta or the Canary Islands (where a bansd of nutsos who are about 1% of the populatuion insist in that Canary people are Africans and should join Morocco). The fact Chirac is a bastard should not alter your judgement.

Posted by JFM 2003-8-25 6:06:42 PM|| 2003-8-25 6:06:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah, JFM, I think Steve D was being sarcastic. I do think it's funny that they call Corsica a "French-ruled" island. Hmmmm, why not French-occupied? The French are so wildly hypocritical, phony and just plain annoying that they make a great target.

And JFM, that Corsican chief of state you mentioned, that wouldn't be Napoleon Bonaparte would it?

Posted by Jabba the Nutt 2003-8-25 7:42:11 PM|| 2003-8-25 7:42:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 JFM,

Yes, we have the same problem with Puerto Rico.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-8-25 8:33:50 PM|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-8-25 8:33:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I was being sarcastic, but hadn't realized that Corsica had such a rich background. Almost pulled into port there once for a Christopher Columbus celebration but the weather was too rough. Evidently, Corsica is one of several "birthplaces" of Columbus. Corsica sounds like Crete - unique in culture but just as happy not to be independent.

Posted by Steve D 2003-8-25 9:37:23 PM|| 2003-8-25 9:37:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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