France insults its Revolution !

Every  political leader in the world might be a target for

    assassination. The conservative phony Jacques Chirac is over-reacting

    to the recent attempt on his life that may not even have been a conspiracy.

              Headline : " France to outlaw radical right ". It is one thing

    to arrest and punish criminal  terrorists. It is quite another thing - a

    mockery of the great French Revolution- to outlaw minor, unpopular political

    parties - perhaps reflecting the views of a significant number of French

    citizens that unchecked immigration is ruining their country.

                  When I  watch " old " French films - from the 50s and 60s-

    the Bridget Bardot era - I can empathize with nostalgia for a cleaner,

    brighter, saner, safer, happier, more sensuously enjoyable world.

                   You can't outlaw IDEAS - even nasty, reactionary ones.

             Imagine the likes of Chirac  deciding even for the eternally

    rebellious French Left the boundaries of political correctness.

            When Lee Harvey Oswald was assassinated here nobody thought

    about outlawing the Fair Play For Cuba  Committee.

                  Let the ghosts of the Convention return to haunt modern

    France.  " Do not betray us ! " they shout from the grave.