EUROPE'S ZERO HOUR
France Is Self Destructing Prior to EU Constitution Vote
By Romain Leick in Paris
All eyes in Europe are now on France as the country prepares to vote on the EU constitution. The political wrangling is reaching a fever pitch as each side accuses the other of populism and treason. But why, exactly, are the French so skeptical of the treaty?
AP
Just days before the EU constitution vote in France, surveys indicate the No camp is in the lead.
The boxing match is entering the final round -- and the gloves are coming off. Now, at this late date, anything goes and the rules of political decency have long since been discarded. One week before the French referendum over the European constitutional treaty, opponents and supporters are at each other's throats, almost as if the fate of Europe and the Republic were up for decision. The rest of the European Union can't help but ogle at the tug-o-war in morbid fascination.
Opponents, like parliamentarian Henri Emmanuelli -- a former president of the French parliament, current leader of the Socialist Party, and an angry spokesman for the left wing -- have likened a Yes vote to the shameful poll that put aging Marshall Philippe Pétain into power after France's defeat at the hands of the Germans in 1940. In other words, voting Yes is tantamount to treason. Supporters of the constitution on the other hand -- most prominently President Jacques Chirac -- see a No vote as a stab in the nation's back. In other words, voting No is a cowardly attack preventing the nation from future greatness.
Judging by the rhetoric in fact, an outside observer could be forgiven for thinking that everyone in France is a liar and a traitor.
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(I disagree with Chirac here on a rare but grand occasion, but I do understand him and where he came from initially with this. If France says NO to EU, that is a good thing for both France and Europe - which is not equal EU aka NWO - and so i passed the word across our Lake of Geneva: JUST SAY NON!)
Peace - M StC.
