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2007-07-23 Europe

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Posted by Mike 2007-07-23 06:40|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 I didn't knew about this initiative. Also I live in Paris and is not that easy for me to go to Colleville

However:

1) For the 60th anniversary of D-Day there were French citizens who scrapped their own pockets in order to build a monument on Omaha beach.

2) The prefet (ie the state's agent in the region, ie Chirac's representative) tried to have it demolished in september 2004 but citizen's resistance succedeed in thwarting the project.

3) When visiting Coleville's graveyard (BTW, a very beautiful place and AFAIK, American territory) I noticed an old man flowering a grave. Then he spoke in French to be one of his family and his French was too perfect and unnaccented for him to be an American.

4) I saw a public building flying Normandy's flag, the American flag and.. that's all. No trace of the European Union flag and no trace of the French flag.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-07-23 08:15|| 2007-07-23 08:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The font of Anti-Americanism in Europe is the elites, not the people (sort of like in America). The problem is the elites control policy in Europe.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-07-23 08:41|| 2007-07-23 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 #2: The font of Anti-Americanism in Europe is the elites, not the people (sort of like in America). The problem is the elites control policy in Europe.

Bravo NS, well said indeed!

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-23 09:05|| 2007-07-23 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 How will we rid ourselves of such troublesome elites?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-07-23 10:01|| 2007-07-23 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 The elites (and the Communist Party when it was influential) have brainwashed the French people for decades. It will take decades of deprogramming. But even in 2004 I was surprised how easy it was to find people who confessed to be pro-American. At that time saying it was like telling you were from the KKK, very politically incorrect.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-07-23 10:02|| 2007-07-23 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 We appreciate the time and effort it took to make this display. Thank you and merci, citizens of France.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-07-23 10:12|| 2007-07-23 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 I lived in Paris for 2 years and can't tell you how many conversations I had with French people about all things political where we came to the mutual conclusion that 'it's not the people, it's their government.' And where, once we got to get to know each other and hang out, etc, we agreed 'hey, you guys aren't so bad.' The sad reality: our default behavior is to distrust, demonize and slander. It makes us feel better about ourselves - it also ensures we slaughter each other from time to time. Sad but true.

Posted by Geoffro 2007-07-23 10:46|| 2007-07-23 10:46|| Front Page Top

#8 The font of Anti-Americanism in Europe is the elites, not the people (sort of like in America). The problem is the elites control policy in Europe.

Well worth repeating.

How will we rid ourselves of such troublesome elites?

I'll quote John F. Kennedy:

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

America's elite are closing ranks. Witness, for example, the immigration bill. They are making control of public policy a closed shop and increasingly ignoring the average citizen's input. There is another butcher's bill slowly accruing for this treason. Things are going to get very ugly when the tab finally comes due.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-23 12:36|| 2007-07-23 12:36|| Front Page Top

#9 That scraping sound you hear is Charles de Gaulle spinning in his grave.

Posted by SteveS 2007-07-23 13:09|| 2007-07-23 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 But, but, but ... They hate us!

Posted by John Kerry 2007-07-23 13:46|| 2007-07-23 13:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks for the anecdotes, JFM. I'd always read and heard that the locals in the Normandy area maintain true heartfelt gratitude for their liberation.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-07-23 14:41|| 2007-07-23 14:41|| Front Page Top

#12 xbalanke

Just kidding but do you still have place for another star in your flag? :-)

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-07-23 15:03|| 2007-07-23 15:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Always, but the libs are trying to make it impossible for more to join. It is hard to imagine, but the time is not far off when no one alive will be able to remember when a state was added to the Union.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-07-23 15:06|| 2007-07-23 15:06|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm surprised at how young some of them are.

Had a young friend visit Paris, met a boy - he came to visit, couldn't believe what he's been told is not how it is.

they were in a bar, people were buying him drinks, calling him "Paris." People don't buy other people a drink there.

At the end of the evening, stood up, flung out his arms and yelled, "I LOVE AMERICA!"

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-07-23 17:18|| 2007-07-23 17:18|| Front Page Top

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