After destroying the Buddhas of Afghanistan, burning the Churches of Kosovo, Muslims are now destroying the Christian legacy of France.
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Today (march 22, 2006) we learn that this government has let 1,000 years of cultural and religious legacy to become smoke and ashes.
Barbarians and savages entered in the library of �l�Ecole des Chartes� (100,000 books) in the Sorbonne, and destroyed writings of abbeys of �le-de-France containing all the official documents since the middle age.
In related news, Tim Blair notes an early start to Car-b-q season this year.
More at WaPo – “Paris Burning, Once Again”;
France is still in the grip of precisely the political mentality that has prevailed here since the Middle Ages. As the protesters themselves cheerfully declare: It’s the street that rules. Today’s mobs, like their predecessors, are notable for their poor grasp of economic principles and their hostility to the free market. Only wardrobe distinguishes these demonstrations from those that led to the invasion of the national convention in 1795, when first the mob protested that commodity prices were too high; when the government responded with price controls, it protested with equal vigor that goods had disappeared and black market prices had risen. Similarly, the students on the streets today espouse economic views entirely unpolluted by reality. If the CPE is enacted, said one young woman, “You’ll get a job knowing that you’ve got to do every single thing they ask you to do because otherwise you may get sacked.”
Imagine that.
(Via Instapundit)
Trolls are sooo predictable.
LOOOOOL!
Doug
Your “feeling” again watch out. Your “feeling” is becoming all too predictable. Remember you are Conservative, be like your leader, bland. Bland is the new cool.
Steve D…. you are taking up alot of my time scrolling through your MSM spouted comments. Please post less so that I can read some intelligent conversation in a more timely manner. If I wanted spin, I would watch CBC
Lanny
I don’t get it. If I post less how are you possibly going to get intelligent conversation????
Doug perhaps?: LOOOOL! very intelligent perhaps its code for you Lanny
Is the term “better than the fall of the Berlin wall” too offensive?
Steve D:
When you’re trolling, trying to refute a conservative source or allegation, never, I mean NEVER, use the New York Times as your defence. It’s such a left-wing, defend-the-reigning lib-fem-elitist Zeitgeist that the minute you mention it, you show how deeply ingrained your left-lib-fem mindset is. ‘Doesn’t do your “side” any good at all…
well anyway,
yesterday I could only find the source at NYTimes, and a SanFransico news site, (no further comment on these spinsters here?) I’d like to find it at a “quality site”… On 11.March the LATimes and Reuters covered this lightly, “University authorities said the protesters had destroyed historic documents in the School of National Charters, an archive of pre-French Revolution texts” so not… “19th century mass produced copies of older texts” (2.45pm entry) but not destroyed by Islamists either…
It seems only, the “religion of the left” may be at the root.
Perhaps for Gilles de Robien, this will become the “the man’s not for turning” – Margaret Thatcher type moment for him.
marc in calgary,
RE: “The US constitution protects the rights, and gives certain rights, to all people in the USA, including the right to bear arms. “
The US Constitution legally applies only to US citizens.
Just being in the US does not make one entitled to the rights the Constitution guarantees to its citizens.
There are no longer barbarians at the gate.
We let them in long ago.
My view was backed up by a NYT article so I “feel” my view is more true
Right. And every Communist apparachnik believed every word in Pravda right up to the end. With all of the corrections of late at the NYT’s and their predictable leftist agenda do you really think it’s intelligent to cite them as your only source?
steve, in between your troll postings could you describe your day?
concrete, The US Constitution, applies to all people in the USA. I am Canadian, If I go to Montana, and kill someone, they “read my rights to me” and we all follow “due process”. If I go to Great Falls and buy a Glock 9mm, with a drivers licence to prove who I am, it is within my constitutional right to do so.
It doesn’t apply at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (where the enemy combatants are held) for example, because it’s (leased from) Cuba, it is not territory of the USA.
I believe the Canadian Constitution applies to citizens and non citizens that are legally here as well, equally.
In fact, because this is Canada, it probably applies to folks that are not here legally as well.. (uff.) and are fighting a deportation order…
The problem with Right wing media is that they only regurgitate,unedited, White House memos and talking points. So what is the point in quoting self-serving propaganda?
The NYT at least has its own point of view. Make no mistake though it iS located in New York City. A city not known for its ultra conservatism. The news paper reflects the community. That is how you sell newspapers.
FOX news is serving a community too. But I don’t have to go to Fox news to read the Presidents press releases.
Penny what I do all day is read. Its a great life. Books, newspapers, blogs, magazines, food labels, basically everything.
marc, RE: “I am Canadian, If I go to Montana, and kill someone, they “read my rights to me” and we all follow “due process”.
You would be charged and prosecuted under the USA law, which does of course apply.
Here is a quote from the National Archives about the Bill of Rights,
“They demanded a “bill of rights” that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens.”
Your individual civil and political rights come from your own Canadian government.
Steve d. re “Tens of thousands of Americans are killed every year by crazy people with guns and automobiles. You have chosen one, who happens to be angry and Muslim. Is the point to prove you are racist or anti-semitic or anti-Islam or anti-young guys, or what?”
Speaking of context, I wonder what your reaction will be when one of these twisted jihadi screwups finally detonates a nuclear bomb in our midst?
I am Canadian, and when I am in the USA, Canadian law doesn’t apply, USA law does.
The Constitutional Amendment that gives this protection to “everyone” in the USA is #14
The Supreme Court held in Yick Wo v Hopkins (1886), that aliens, those persons living in the US who are not American citizens, were protected by the 14th amendment.
The Supreme Court held in Plyler v Doe (1982) that a Texas law forbidding illegal immigrants to attend public school violated the Equal Protection Clause.
Laws regarding citizenship, voting, and serving on juries are exempted… and the Bill of Rights apply to you and I equally. (which I think is cool.) and thanks to you Concrete, for making me “look it up”.
Find it here,
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/details_explanation.php?link=175&const=21_amd_14&keyword=aliens
Re the “l’Ecole de Chartres” library
It seems not to have been as bad as it might have been, but is bad enough. No “student” with any trace of the scholar in him would destroy old books. Indeed, when I was an undergrad it was the fact that studentoid activists were destroying library card catalogues which turned me against them. And why in Heaven’s name storm the Sorbonne library? There are plenty of things to bust in Paris – expensive shop windows, for instance, for that socialist thrill. If the studentoids really wanted to throw books, why didn’t they go to the librarie Ghibert, not very far away? Tens of thousands of books, all in print; no single volume that couldn’t be immediately replaced.
As for the destruction of 19th C French academic books – they were “mass-produced” in one sense, but then so were the Gutenberg bibles. The last time I purchased a 19th C French academic book I paid US$400 for it, and that was for a facsimile.
I trust there is now an armed guard at the Musee de Cluny.
Not to mention Notre Dame.
Time and time and time again, over and over and over, for centuries and centuries and centuries, France has been demonstrating that it’s really stupid… and they even claim they invented the Age of Enlightenment (maybe they had problems translating from their English sources)!
marc, you are welcome.
The US Constitution is a wonderful document.
It is for the most part short and to the point.
Here is the 14th amendment (which addresses State versus Federal powers).
AMENDMENT XIV
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Also, RE: “I am Canadian, and when I am in the USA, Canadian law doesn’t apply, USA law does.”
Not quite.
Your rights and responsibilities as a Canadian (i.e. remitting tax) extend beyond the border.
Joe Canuck
It is all about good intelligence, getting it and acting on it. If we don’t have it we are screwed. Fighting them over there won’t stop them from coming over here. They are spread all over the world. So if we are not spending the bulk of our resources monitoring and scanning for this kind of terror attack then we should be. Our only offence is a good defense. An army is useless against this kind of sleeper cell guerilla.
Steve d. Fighting terrorist groups over there at least keeps them in disarray and turmoil. Leaving them alone will only allow them to regroup and concentrate more on infiltrating western countries.
But I agree that we will need intensive domestic (and foreign) surveillance and intelligence regardless of what the ultimate decisions are wrt our armed forces overseas.
It is sad that our attempts to give these people the gift of democracy and freedom turns out to be akin to offering a rabid dog a bone.
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Turning from cars to the great works of the French abbeys; the Religion of Peace is stealing and possibly burning books from the Sorbonne. Ten precious religious books, des “cartulaires ecclesiastiques” (see below) that contain documents dating from th…