Interesting Analysis.<br />====================<br /><br />France is Almost Finished<br />By Guy Milliere<br />FrontPageMagazine.com | April 10, 2003<br /><br />Little by little, the French government tries to<br />change its behavior. The smell of Allied victory<br />wafting out of Bhagdad maybe? You can expect Chirac<br />and Villepin to say: we have always loved the United<br />States. We are your friends, no hard feelings... I<br />just hope nobody will believe it in the United States.<br />If within a few days, Chirac and Villepin say this,<br />think about it: it's ALL about the money. They want to<br />try to keep some of their Iraqi contracts intact. They<br />want the United States to go back to the United<br />Nations where they can again paralyze you with their<br />vetoes and their<br />counter-proposals.<br /><br />I'm sorry to say it, but nothing good for the U.S. can<br />come from France now.<br /><br />Some day in the future this may change, but the French<br />will have to learn their lessons the hard way. They<br />have to feel the pain, unlike the citizens of Poland.<br />The Polish see what they owe to the United States. A<br />little more than ten years ago, they were under the<br />rule of a communist dictatorship and they remember it<br />is thanks to the United States that they were freed<br />from that nightmare. The French people will have to<br />see what a nightmare looks like before you can take<br />their apologies seriously.<br /><br />Be patient, the nightmare is almost upon us.<br /><br />Economically speaking, France is decaying, full speed.<br />Unemployment is officially around ten per cent. If you<br />add the people who have never worked and so are not<br />counted for the statistics, and also add the students<br />who study nothing useful, the right number would be<br />way above fifteen per cent. Growth rate is now<br />officially around one per cent, and it includes<br />government activities: if the government component was<br />not included, it would be easy to see that France is<br />in depression. Her population is growing old, and no<br />money is available to take care of the large number of<br />senior citizens in the years to come. The greater part<br />of young people are Muslim, not integrated with<br />French society, and almost illiterate.<br /><br />In fact, the only things that are growing in France<br />right now are crime and Islamism. Some readers have<br />been amazed by the fact that teenaged girls and young<br />women in many city districts have to wear the Islamic<br />veil if they do not want to be harassed, but it gets<br />worse. A few weeks ago, a young Arab burnt a teenaged<br />girl alive in the suburbs of Paris. He was convicted<br />of murder, but he became a hero and an example for<br />other young Arabs living in the same kind of areas.<br />Two month ago, ten Arab men who raped another teenaged<br />girl in another district were convicted and condemned<br />to spend five years in jail. Yes, just five years.<br />Their families left the court of justice shouting to<br />the journalists it was unfair and they would look out<br />for revenge. Eight days later, the court was burnt<br />down during the night. The teenaged girl and her<br />family have had to leave Paris, and hide in another<br />part of the country.<br /><br />I have written columns in the French press concerning<br />what's happening. The response has been death<br />threats, with color pictures of slit throats,<br />anti-Semitic insults. There were Muslims in France<br />thirty years ago, but they were not like the Muslims<br />of today. They were moderate, they did not feel they<br />could wield decisive political power in France, they<br />did not think they were at war against western<br />civilization. Now it's clear that they think they are<br />at war. Very few people are in jail in France<br />(France does not have enough jails), but more than<br />sixty per cent of the convicts are Muslims, and<br />Islamist imams visit them on a weekly basis. My wife<br />was born in a Muslim family. She's not a Muslim<br />anymore, and because she left Islam, she risks being<br />killed if she says it openly. My wife's mother is<br />still Muslim, but she is a moderate, and she's afraid<br />to be considered a traitor by the much more radical<br />Muslims that are spreading throughout France.<br /><br />Within twenty years, Muslims will be a majority in<br />France. And if nothing changes, they will be radical<br />Muslims.<br /><br />The French government takes care of the present: it<br />knows it cannot take care of the future because there<br />is no future. The French government acts like a<br />traitor to its old allies for many reasons: because it<br />has no principles, because it needs money, but<br />especially because it is afraid of bloody riots.<br />France is not a sovereign nation anymore: it's partly<br />ruled by the mob, partly ruled from the outside by<br />corrupting Muslim tyrants. But don't worry, France<br />also has no importance anymore: it can still bark, but<br />it's bite is more like a nip.<br /><br />France is almost finished. The nightmare is almost<br />here. France has to know the horrors of the nightmare<br />if you want her to have a chance to wake up. Sure,<br />you may find some exceptions to the rule. France has<br />some decent intellectuals: but they have about the<br />same access to the mainstream media that dissenters<br />had in the Soviet Union twenty years ago. France has<br />bold politicians: one, maybe two if I want to be<br />extremely generous. France still has genuine<br />journalists: you could count them on the fingers of<br />one hand. For the next years, come to France if you<br />want, visit old monuments, but do not expect to be<br />understood or appreciated by the locals. Behave as you<br />would in a third world country; soon France will be a<br />third world country. Perhaps it will wake up with a<br />start, but who knows? Right now, if you read the<br />polls, only 53% of the French hope the U.S. army will<br />defeat Saddam: the rest hope the United States will be<br />defeated and Saddam will win...<br /><br />Do you really want France to have a word to say in the<br />re-building of Iraq after Saddam is defeated?<br /><br />c/6<br /><br />Hooty
