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The French have a lot to worry about, because their country is a serious pain in the ass to a lot of people in the world. What the French have done to Africa,
by fit2rule 12y ago
The French have a lot to worry about, because their country is a serious pain in the ass to a lot of people in the world.
What the French have done to Africa, and what they continue to do to Africa - which should be one of the richest continents on Earth, in terms of world economy - is definitely something that has to be hidden from the French public, or else they wouldn't stand one minute more of their ruling elite lying to them.
Former French colonies are, as of today, being heavily repressed by France. This fact needs to continue to be hidden, lest the world wake up to the repression and demand that the French people do something effective about it. Until then, terrorism is to be expected. You can't rule as an imperial power and not expect blowback; people want to be free to live their lives un-repressed.
EDIT: Read this, and then re-consider your downvote: http://thisisafrica.me/france-loots-former-colonies/ http://thisisafrica.me/france-loots-former-colonies/
Fact is, the Western nations have a lot of responsibility for imperial machinations in the world, and while the French people - as well as those of us in other Western nations - may not have anything to hide, we certainly have a LOT that must be revealed to us in order to understand just why people are willing to give their lives to disrupt Western imperialism. Its not all religion; mostly, its economic and human rights violations on the part of the Western powers, which motivates such heinous response.
- collyw 12y agoAre you an American posting this by any chance?
- fit2rule 12y agoWhat has that got to do with anything? Nope.
- ptaipale 12y agoThat "thisisafrica" article has been posted to HN at least twice recently, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876429 - and as the previous comment chain says, it looks very bogus.
- fit2rule 12y ago"Looking bogus" is not the same as being bogus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearstream_affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearstream_affair I would personally be quite content to see more evidence presented in the public sphere and world court. When/if it happens, let us pick up the thread ..
- ptaipale 12y agoThe previous chain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876429 explains in quite a lot of detail how it walks like bogus and talks like bogus. It makes extraordinary claims which cannot be backed up, and which are conflicting with realistic assessment of what is possible (for instance, that France would be ripping off an amount of money that equals to its annual state budget, without that money showing up anywhere.)
- fit2rule 12y agoNothing in that thread is anything but opinion. As for the money not showing up anywhere, its quite clear that the French secret services are involved in covering up the transactions - this is one of their key tasks, after all.