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| DaveSaenz |
From AP:
(AP) French bashing has even cropped up in Louisiana, the bastion of Cajun and Creole culture
that for weeks resisted the anti-French feelings that surfaced when French President Jacques
Chirac refused to support the war in Iraq.
A movement has sprung up to stop Chirac from attending a Dec. 20 re-enactment of the Louisiana
Purchase in the New Orleans French Quarter. President Bush and Spanish King Juan Carlos also
have been invited to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the purchase.
"President Chirac is unwilling to stand with President Bush and our country when we need them in
Iraq. So I don't think he should come stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in December," said
Bobby Jindal, a Republican candidate for governor, who was an assistant secretary in the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services until recently.
On his weekly call-in radio show Thursday, GOP Gov. Mike Foster, who leaves office this fall,
commended Jindal and said, "For some reason, he's (Chirac's) gone off the deep end."
Most callers to the show seemed to agree that the invitation to Chirac should be rescinded.
Lt. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, the state's chief tourism official, who also is running for
governor, invited all three world leaders. None has responded.
Blanco issued a statement Friday saying a time of war is no time for politics. “This is now a
matter of international diplomacy and it is up to the president to decide what is in the best
interest of the United States,” she said.
State Rep. Almond Gaston Crowe, a Republican from Slidell, has said he is preparing a legislative
resolution to rescind Chirac's invitation.
Meanwhile, French teachers have reported harassment.
"In one restaurant, two teachers were talking in French privately and a waiter went up to them
and voiced disapproval of their country," said Warren Perrin, president of the Council for
Development of French in Louisiana. "They were actually from Belgium."
A group calling itself Citizens for Direct Action called for the cancellation of ties between
Lafayette and sister cities in Belgium and France, Perrin said.
Philippe Gustin, director of international relations in the town of Lafayette, said he worried the
dispute will reduce the number of French and Belgian tourists at the Festival International de
Louisiane in Lafayette in April. Ambassadors from Canada and Belgium are expected to attend.
In New Orleans, Olivier Baugnies, an architect who is a French citizen, said, "It's not harassment
exactly, it's more of an underlying tension. But you sense that people do not understand France's
position."
Elaine Clement, a community outreach coordinator, said her friends who are either originally from
France or French students, have been harassed, "including people who have been here for years."
She said she received nasty e-mails after speaking out against French bashing in an earlier
interview.
Clement had said she was somewhat put off by Congress' recent decision to change House
cafeteria menus to read "freedom fries" and "freedom toast." "Are they going to change French
kiss to freedom kiss?" she said then. |
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| EbolaCola |
All I have to say is that bashing French people and boycotting French stores and stuff comes to show how immature and low many Americans can get.
First of all, France has been our most important ally for the past 250 years. Just because France is not in support with the war doesn't mean they are wrong. France, to the U.S., is like a best friend; it tells you what is right to do, not what you want to hear. France is not a yes-man that agrees with every action the U.S. takes. France is allowed to oppose the war if it wants to, but it doesn't mean they are evil or hate America. They are doing what they feel is in the best interests of everyone.
So, for all you Americans who are using the terms "freedom fries" or "freedom toast", it just comes to show how immature you all really are. |
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| DaveSaenz |
| quote: | Originally posted by EbolaCola
All I have to say is that bashing French people and boycotting French stores and stuff comes to show how immature and low many Americans can get.
First of all, France has been our most important ally for the past 250 years. Just because France is not in support with the war doesn't mean they are wrong. France, to the U.S., is like a best friend; it tells you what is right to do, not what you want to hear. France is not a yes-man that agrees with every action the U.S. takes. France is allowed to oppose the war if it wants to, but it doesn't mean they are evil or hate America. They are doing what they feel is in the best interests of everyone.
So, for all you Americans who are using the terms "freedom fries" or "freedom toast", it just comes to show how immature you all really are. |
It goes both ways ~sigh~
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| occrider |
OMG that pisses me off so ing much. This in NO way equates to labelling french fries freedom fries. The lack of ing respect disgusts me. And that goddamn swastika puts me over the edge. :mad: :whip: :whip: |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
OMG that pisses me off so ing much. This in NO way equates to labelling french fries freedom fries. The lack of ing respect disgusts me. And that goddamn swastika puts me over the edge. :mad: :whip: :whip: |
No joke. I really do not thing the USA is in error of this position. It did not isolate itself from the French, the French have isolated themselves from the USA. The question is not how (ever will) the USA should reconclie with France, but how will France (ever) reconclie with the USA?
The French are simply wrong here, I see no problem with lawful means of protesting and pointing out this fact, they have created a rift which they do not seem eager to patch up.
This latest incitend. The damn German Swastika! Amazing, for these reaons I hope their is a God - and a hell - so people who did that can burn there. |
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| JudgeJulez |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
No joke. I really do not thing the USA is in error of this position. It did not isolate itself from the French, the French have isolated themselves from the USA. The question is not how (ever will) the USA should reconclie with France, but how will France (ever) reconclie with the USA?
The French are simply wrong here, I see no problem with lawful means of protesting and pointing out this fact, they have created a rift which they do not seem eager to patch up.
This latest incitend. The damn German Swastika! Amazing, for these reaons I hope their is a God - and a hell - so people who did that can burn there. |
You seem to indict here the French ppl in its entirety, while it is most likelihood the vandalism of an extremely disillusioned few. I'm sure the overwhelming majority of the French ppl do not hold the same views as these perpetrators, and are reacting as equally in disgust at this horrific crime as we are.
PS this was done at cemetery for UK troops, not US. |
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| LiquidX |
| - IM disgusted at how the Republicans are acting against the french, though Im not surprised by it, cry babys. Also, Im disgusted how the french did that on the cementery. They are auto-building hate against each other even more, but with American governors making laws and such against the"french fries" for an example is plain ridiculous, something the French governors aren't doing. But anyways, this sucks. Also, that swastika was done as calling BUSH a Nazi, not by just placing it in there and doing it as if they were Nazi's just to clear any misunderstanding of it.. in any way, it shouldn't have been done on a cementery. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by JudgeJulez
PS this was done at cemetery for UK troops, not US. |
Doesn't matter ... the fact that protestors over there would even think about desecrating ANY grave of troops fighting for THEIR country is despicable.
And governors aren't legally changing the name of french fries or what not. It was merely changed on the menus in the house cafateria ... jesus people are overreacting to some dumbnut cafateria manager who had a "good idea".
And I don't give a crap if they're calling Hitler a nazi, it's a disgrace to even put it where they did and associate a MEMORIAL with a political message that they want to convey. I'm sorry but these protestors have absolutely NO defense for what they did. If I were the brits I would dig up their "rubbish" and bury them somewhere where their sacrifice will be appreciated. |
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| JudgeJulez |
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Agreed with what you said Occrider, but just to ever so specific and technical :D, it was two (Republican ;) ) representatives who 'offically' presided over the changing of names on the cafe menu. I don't remember the names, but I did see a picture of them doing it and I do remember one is from Ohio (the other was from a Southern state). But you're absolutely right, ppl are extremely overreacting and things are getting drawn out way too far. |
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| occrider |
| Yes I stand corrected. However the way liquidxx is portraying it, it sounds like this is an american law going into effect all throughout the country ... it's not. It's a dumb idea passed in one cafateria. At any rate, if this starts happening to american cemetaries public outrage over here would be immense. Nobody over here would forgive the french, even if it were just a stupid bunch of protestors. Let's hope they don't do anything else retarded ... |
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| LiquidX |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Yes I stand corrected. However the way liquidxx is portraying it, it sounds like this is an american law going into effect all throughout the country ... it's not. It's a dumb idea passed in one cafateria. At any rate, if this starts happening to american cemetaries public outrage over here would be immense. Nobody over here would forgive the french, even if it were just a stupid bunch of protestors. Let's hope they don't do anything else retarded ... |
First of all Im not Liquidxx Im LiquidX ( There's another dude on the board with Liquidxx so I should specify that ).
Secondly, I don't know what it sound it like to you or whatever, but I clearly said that some American governors placed in law, wherever the place was, as you said, the management of the house and pentagon or whichever place in whasington they felt like needed to change the name "french fries" to "freedom fries". I never said it was throughout the country..if it sounded like that, then sorry for not been more specific. The other thing that I find rediculous is the way this governors are trying to like stated "State Rep. Almond Gaston Crowe, a Republican from Slidell, has said he is preparing a legislative
resolution to rescind Chirac's invitation." |
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